The campus-center project at Lawrence U. included a bridge, seen in the foreground, that links two sides of the campus. (Lawrence U. photo)

A $35-million, 107,000-square-foot campus center that was nearly two decades in the planning opened this month at Lawrence University. In addition to offering a variety of social spaces for students, the multilevel project adds a land bridge over South Lawe Street, which crosses the campus. The bridge is intended to help the university expand to the east.

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Purdue U. has dedicated the Niswonger Aviation Technology Building at the university airport. (Purdue U. image)

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Wesleyan U. students designed this sukkah for use on the campus. (Wesleyan U. photo)

As a studio project, 15 architecture students at Wesleyan University designed a new sukkah that members of the university's Jewish community will dedicate on October 3. A sukkah, a ritual structure erected each year for use during the eight-day celebration of Sukkot, recalls the nomadic huts used during the Israelites' 40-year journey from Egypt to Canaan.

According to Jewish law, a sukkah must be located where it is...

Marquette U. will break ground next year for this engineering building, designed by Opus North.

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Ann Holley's 125-square-foot house makes a statement about living on less. (Photograph courtesy Alfred U.)

Ann Holley, a graduate student in sculpture at Alfred University, arrived at the university this year with her own living quarters: ProtoHaus, a tiny house that she designed with her husband, Darren Macca, an industrial designer. The house, which was constructed in seven weeks over the summer, is about 22 feet by 8 feet and is set on a trailer for mobility.

"I spent most of the spring semester working on the plans and a proposal to the university to allow me to bring the house and park it here on campus," Ms. Holley says. She says...

Polshek Partnership Architects has designed this Business Leadership Building for the U. of North Texas. (U. of North Texas image)

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If you don’t know by now that incandescent lights are out of favor, you haven’t been paying attention.

Incandescent bulbs, which are essentially space heaters that happen to also provide a small amount of light, are inefficient and burn out quickly, and are one of the first things to go in energy-efficiency campaigns on campus. compact fluorescents last far longer, emit less heat, use less electricity, reduce carbon emissions, and can be installed in existing fixtures. So, when a university is looking for a quick turnaround on their energy expenses, they change out their bulbs....

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Graceland is now an inn at Davis & Elkins College. (Chronicle photographs by Scott Carlson)

Elkins, W.Va. — Davis & Elkins College is a small institution in the hills of West Virginia, but its two historic mansions convey a world-class wealth rarely seen, either in West Virginia or anywhere else. The mansions — Graceland and Halliehurst — were built in the late 1800s as summer homes for two statesmen who were also coal and lumber barons and college founders, Henry Gassaway Davis and his son-in-law, Stephen B. Elkins. The Victorian castles are named for Davis's daughters. Both buildings are National Historic...

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