The Dartmouth reports that construction on the Tuck Mall Dorm has begun.
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Article on construction
This month’s Dartmouth Life has an overview of the nine largest projects underway, with images of several of them. Two that have received little press lately but seem to get the go-ahead here are the Visual Arts Center on Lebanon Street (Machado and Silvetti) and the Tuck School dormitory/classroom complex that sounds bigger than when first announced:
The facility will consist of three connected buildings: the east and west residential buildings, and the central classroom and learning bulding.
That facility will be connected to the existing Tuck complex and designed by the firm that designed Tuck’s most recent addition of Whittemore Hall [more], Goody Clancy.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to news article replaced, broken links to Goody Clancy pages fixed.]
Tuck Mall dorm model
Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell, designers of the Collis Center addition and McCulloch Hall, have posted photo of a model of the future Tuck Mall Dormitory. The building will stand atop the short street that connects Webster Avenue to Tuck Drive and will include a faculty apartment.
The Sudikoff addition, designed by Fleck & Lewis Architects of Hanover and built by Engelberth Construction, is in progress and at this point looks rather more like a New England clapboard than the building to which it is attached.
McLaughlin cluster
The school will break ground this month, The Dartmouth reports, for the new McLaughlin Dormitory Cluster north of Maynard Street, designed by Moore Ruble Yudell in association with Bruner/Cott. The Tuck Mall dorm will wait until 2006, The Dartmouthreports.
Shower Towers demolition
The Demolition of the Shower Towers and the construction of dorms on Tuck Mall and Maynard are new priorities, according to an article in The Dartmouth.
Construction budgeting
The Trustees have budgeted for a late-2004 construction project (Maynard Street dormitories) and construction during 2005 (Kemeny Hall/ Haldeman Center and Gym fitness center expansion).
The Trustees also have budgeted for the 2005 planning of the dining hall north of Maynard, a new dormitory on Tuck Mall, new biology buildings and the Hop expansion.
Facilities plan released
The facilities plan, “Dartmouth and the Upper Valley:A Special College and a Special Place” is on line and describes several interesting projects apparently not yet settled on, most notably a A “Commons House” behind Dartmouth Row that will provide social spaces. Others include the renovation of Thayer Dining Hall for social and performance spaces; a Tuck residence hall adjacent Whittemore; 145 residential units in Grasse Road faculty/staff housing; 200 apartment units in Rivercrest, north of campus; and a parking garage south of Cummings for 750+ cars.
Tuck Mall dorm slowed
Declining endowment returns (see Dartmouth Alumni Magazine November/December 2001) may be putting on hold the plans by Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell for the new dormitory on Tuck Mall.