Landscape architects Winston Associates announced during 2004 (Internet Archive page) that Dartmouth had selected Winston and Wolff-Lyon to plan a 200-unit Sand Hill neighborhood that would include an integrated parking/transit transfer center.

Sand Hill does not seem to be a prominent landmark in Hanover or Lebanon. A Parking Committee Recommendation describes Sand Hill as an undeveloped site with room for 450 parking spaces, while the OPDC parking spreadsheet (Excel file) indicates that 300 new parking spots are expected to open in the Sand Hill Lot during fiscal year 2007.

The Boulder-based firm of Wolff Lyon Architects, which developed some of the guidelines for the massive redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton Airport as a town, worked with Boulder landscape architects Winston Associates to complete a master plan for Dartmouth’s total reconstruction of its suburban Rivercrest housing development, north of CRREL and south of Kendal. This project, also known as Dresden Village in planning documents, seems to be taking a while in the town’s regulatory process.

(More on the firm from Wellington in Breckenridge, Colo. Is it coincidence that the master planner for Kendal at Hanover, adjacent Rivercrest, is another Boulder firm, Architecture Incorporated?)

[01.25.2007 Update: Winston link added.]

The Floren Varsity House is proceeding ahead of schedule. The OPDC has recent interior views, as does the varsity athletics site. The article in The Dartmouth quotes OPDC Project Manager Mary Bourque:

Although other alternatives were originally considered, brick was selected to integrate with the surrounding buildings. Careful consideration was given to the view of Floren Varsity House from within Memorial Stadium.

Perhaps this explains the substitution of renderings of a brick-skinned building for the original green-paneled design on the school’s website during 2005.

The Office of Planning, Design & Construction continues to generously post photos of construction projects, including final views of the exterior of the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center at the Thayer School.

The Philadelphia firm of Kieran Timberlake is designing Dartmouth’s new replacement for Thayer Dining Hall. Mr. Timberlake lectured at Dartmouth in 2004 (see also Penn bio; Penn Gazette article).

Rather than retain the frontispiece or conduct a sustainable rehab (as at Yale Law Dining Hall), the school will replace the building entirely between 2008 to 2010.

What will the replacement look like? It is sure to display Kieran Timberlake’s signature glass wall with the Mondrian mullions somewhere, as its dining hall at Middlebury does (another image; see also Levine Hall at Penn). This technique could be a great way to bring light into the north side of the new dining hall and give a view of the trees in the cemetery.

The front on Mass Row, in contast, is where one expects to see some of the solidity of the firm’s other Middlebury buildings (they look appealingly substantial in photos) — not the minimalist experimentation of the Marks Science Center in Brooklyn or Cook House at Cornell.

Although photos suggest that the firm’s best dining rooms are the
historic ones it has renovated, the main dining room is likely to be
an informal one.

The Route 120 tech incubator known as the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center [no website yet] in Centerra Resource Park [no website left] looks interesting as depicted on the website of its designers, UK Architects of Hanover.

Construction began in August 2005 (pdf) and finished last fall, according to a thorough article in New Hampshire Business Review.

The boathouse of the Upper Valley Rowing Club, formerly the Dresden Rowing Club, is projected to open this year near the Wilder Dam. It appears in a rendering by U.K. Architects of Hanover.

The Connecticut Valley Spectator wrote on the club’s growth, reprinted in Rowing News.

[01.24.2007 link to firm's site added.]

The Dartmouth Real Estate Office is selling the Victorian house across from the baseball field at 19 South Park Street as six condo units (pdf).

Photos of some of the completed buildings in the South Block, where Ramunto’s, Hanover Hardware, and Cafe Buon Gustaio used to be, are available:

• 5 South Street
• 7 South Street

The Visual Arts Building will occupy an extremely large footprint, the latest construction map suggests (from the OPDC’s November 2006 Construction Maps). The building looks to be about the size of the Berry Sports Center.

It seems likely that in order to bring light to its center, the building will employ a full-height atrium.

The OPDC’s updated Construction Maps show the north campus finally knitting together.

The Life Sciences Building looks like it will serve as a gateway building, form a wall defining two of the bounds of the campus, and partially enclose an informal quadrangle at the Medical School.

The OPDC’s November 2006 update of its Construction Maps page has a map showing the footprint of the Thayer Dining Hall replacement.

The map suggests that the new building while occupy about the same site as the old, without threatening South Fairbanks Hall.

The December 8, 2006 Capital Project Schedule (pdf) describes a Remote Data Center, a telecommunications network hub a mile and a half from campus, in Lebanon (presumably the 56 Etna Road Data Center, off Route 120).

The building seems to be the one that connects to the campus with a point-to-point radio network described in American School and University Magazine.

The Dartmouth has a photo of the demolition of the Shower Towers. OPDC also has several images.

Bruce Wood at the football-focused Big Geen Alert Blog has posted photos of Floren Varsity House while the curtains were pulled back to show the building to visiting recruits. The building looks taut. Its form seems to have more in common with Berry Gym than Alumni Gym, although it will be sheathed in brick.

The Hood Museum has an interesting film of still photos from the construction of the museum in the early 1980s.

The December 8, 2006 Capital Project Schedule (pdf) indicates that a Montgomery House project will be in construction from February 2007 to November 2008. Montgomery House is a Larson-designed building on Rope Ferry Road occupied by the Montomery Fellow — this project presumably is a renovation, although it is not clear.