LaGrange College, La Grange, Ga.

Building Type: Library

Construction Type: New

Cost: $15.4-million

Square Footage: 45,000

Architect: Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects

Contractor: Batson-Cook Company

Opened: 2009

Nearly three times the size of the library it replaces, the Lewis Library is intended to serve as the college's intellectual commons. It has room for 190,000 volumes in its stacks, as well as group and private study...

California State University at Fresno, Fresno, Calif.

Building Type: Library

Construction Type: New

Cost: $78.8-million

Square Footage: 325,300

Architect: AC Martin Partners Inc.; RMJM

Contractor: Swinerton Incorporated

Opened: 2009

This project renovated an existing 85,000-square-foot structure and added 240,300 square feet to it, creating a five-level structure with a transparent north facade that brings light...

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, N.J.

Building Type: Arts

Construction Type: Renovation

Cost: $3.3-million

Square Footage: 12,500

Architect: Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects

Contractor: MJJ Construction

Opened: 2009

Alton Auditorium, part of the original Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham design for Richard Stockton College, has remained largely unchanged since it was completed in 1971. The renovation sought to address the auditorium's challenges while respecting the character and...

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Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.

Building Type: Residential

Construction Type: Renovation

Cost: $7-million

Square Footage: 39,000

Architect: SmithGroup

Contractor: Triangle Associates Inc.

Opened: 2009

Completed in the mid-1960s, Owen Graduate Center was built to provide graduate students with on-campus housing. With a large number of single rooms and central location near many professional schools, the residence hall was well positioned to...

Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio

Building Type: Science

Construction Type: New

Cost: $3.4-million

Square Footage: 4,400

Architect: Burgess and Niple; Jim Butz Limited

Contractor: Grae-Con Construction Inc.

Opened: 2009

This new 102-seat planetarium is equipped with a hybrid projection system that combines an optical-mechanical star projector with a full-dome digital video projector. The planetarium uses the Goto Chronos system, which can...

Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio

Building Type: Library

Construction Type: New

Cost: $17.5-million

Square Footage: 54,000

Architect: Burgess & Niple; Jim Butz Limited

Contractor: Grae-Con Construction Inc.

Opened: 2009

Although it has a smaller footprint than the building it replaces, this new four-story library was designed with high ceilings to convey a sense of spaciousness. The design also takes advantage of compact shelving. A variety of study spaces...

Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Building Type: Academic

Construction Type: Renovation

Cost: $3.5-million

Square Footage: 12,560

Architect: Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects

Contractor: Massimino Building Corporation

Opened: 2009

Whig Hall was designed by A. Page Brown in 1893. It and a twin, Clio Hall, housed a pair of undergraduate debating societies. After a fire gutted Whig Hall in 1969, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates inserted...

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• San Diego Community College Renovates 1964 Gym

• Building Will Add 106,000 Square Feet to Cal State's San Marcos Campus

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No sooner had Yale University posted a news release saying it had earned platinum-level LEED certification for its new forestry building, Kroon Hall, than the Yale Daily News uncovered a dirty little secret about two other LEED-certified buildings at Yale: They were built with showers and changing rooms for bike commuters, which helped them earn their LEED certification, but bike commuters had never been given access to them. Nor had anyone else.

One of the buildings is Paul Rudolph Hall (above; Chronicle photograph),...