The firm of Jonathan Marvel ‘82 (Rogers Marvel) has made available photos of a model of their master plan for the arts district (ca. 2002).   The design foresees addition to the east and west ends of Spaulding Auditorium, the replacement of the Hop studios (and Charles Moore’s Courtyard Cafe), and, most notably, an extension of the Hop’s entrance facade to the west that would double the width of that facade on the Green and provide much-needed infill for the gap in the street line.

The Hood Museum would be extended south to Lebanon Street.   A view to the southeast from near the site of Brewster Hall allows a glimpse through this Hood extension and into the courtyard.   Though a master plan is only a projection, the Visual Arts Building on Lebanon Street is in progress by Machado and Silvetti.

[Updated 08.30.2005.]

No less a critic than Peter Eisenman (WikiPedia article) has stated that at Dartmouth, “all the buildings look the same” no matter what their function, according to a review of Eisenman’s 2002 talk by Donald Maurice Kreis.

Tully International, which renovated Leverone Field House, also designed a two-hundred-foot long addition to the field house, presumably to extend it westward in the direction of the football field.   The school’s subsequent decision to build a new varsity house behind the east stands may have put this plan on hold.

Wayne Cripps makes available dozens of photos of Elms of Dartmouth, including photos of the two most important ones: the Hikers’ Elm at the southwest corner of the Green, and the Parkhurst Elm.

The Valley News presented a story on the proposed Dresden Village back in January.   The project sounds as if it will present a new-urbanist contrast to Centerra (map [pdf]), begun two decades ago.   Rivercrest (aerial), just past CRREL, presently occupies the village site and is a stereotypically suburban and low-density development.

Dartmouth plans to demolish Thayer Hall (Jens F. Larson, 1937) and replace it with a new dining hall (as mentioned in The Dartmouth).

The view from a webcam shows the walls rising at the eastern trio of dorms in the McLaughlin Cluster.

The recently-completed facilities adjacent Thompson Arena comprise the Boss Tennis Center with its entrance in the Gordon Pavilion, the east facades of which are depicted here:

and the Scully-Fahey Field for lacrosse, field hockey, and other sports.   Its triumphal arch is the largest gate at Dartmouth: