The Howe Library has completed a major addition (The Dartmouth | Valley News) to its SBRA building. The addition was designed by Gerrit Zwart and built by Trumbull-Nelson.

Smith & Vansant Architects of Norwich have remodeled and added a new rear façade (2000) to the Robert Strong Memorial Building (1959) of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, across from the Hop.

Front (north) and side (west) facades of Strong Memorial

The Athletics website has an update on the Gym renovation. One of the photographs shows the upper drill hall, which the project will return to the industrial space it really is.

One of the first things the College did when it took over the Gym from the alumni was to add a central north stair to the eastern and western runs that already led to the main entrance. Now the school is replacing that narrow central run with a single broad main stair and substituting bicycle racks for the eastern run and a ramp for the western (see plan [pdf]). One expects that the ramp nevertheless will see the greatest use, since most people arrive from the west. The chunky cornerstone, laid by President Ernest Fox Nichols at his inauguration on October 14, 1909, may be obscured by the ramp.

• It seems that the the Facilities Planning Office (previously the Office of Facilities Planning?) has become the Office of Planning, Design, and Construction (see the website of September 2004, showing old name while accessing current images; the name of the site directory is still “~fpo”).

  The new name is clearer and more informative, but nothing beats the style of the design office that is associated with the Capitol in Washington: The Architect of the Capitol.

• The walls are up in the McLaughlin Cluster (webcam looking south from Gilman), being built by Engelberth
• Kemeny/Haldeman is in its yellow stage and the steel framing for the tower (no name apparently announced yet) is up (photos from the Math Department project site).
• The Dartmouth has more on Fred Wilson’s exhibition in the Hood and about the Hood.
• Skypic has available aerial views (1 | 2) of Dartmouth.

The Native American Studies Department anticipates a substantial addition to Sherman House (mentioned):

Front (west) and side (south) facades of the Frank Asbury Sherman House (1883)

Three views of the renovated Baker Library:

The welcome desk above follows almost exactly the form of the earlier circulation desk, but with paneling depicted rather than attached. Now patrons enter the Berry addition through the librarians’ old passage to the stacks. Note the new colors for the library’s main hall, presumably based on historic colors.

The reflection prevents this photo from showing that one of the display cases has been removed to make a window onto the passage leading back to Berry.

As another local instance of outside becoming inside, an exterior wall of the original Baker stacks now lines the passage to Berry. VSBA installed a door here.

Small updates:

• Fred Wilson’s new reinterpretation of the Hood’s collection opened on October 1.
• The College has long considered serving beer in the future north campus dining hall.
• The Dartmouth notes that work on the Gym continues and should end by April.
• The Dartmouth notes that Chi Gamma Epsilon and Bones Gate have reopened after their
  building code renovations and additions.
• Dartmouth Life has a roundup of current construction projects.   The links at the bottom are
  to unique articles rather than the Facilities Planning Projects Page.
• The academic projects of Visual Arts Building architects Machado and Silvetti includes chiefly Princeton’s Scully Hall (1998) (more) and — more remarkably — a 1992 parking garage there.