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August 14, 2008, 02:59 PM ET
Shop Talk: A Campus Center Offers Dining, Diversions, and 522 Parking Spaces
New parking spaces—with a campus center on top: A $43-million, 116,000-square-foot campus center opened Monday at Washington University in St. Louis, bringing the university not only a range of new options for dining and diversion, but also 522 new underground parking spaces, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The three-story building was designed to blend in with other structures on the university’s Collegiate Gothic campus, but the project did require demolishing a 100-year-old building that the university said could not be renovated. The new facility, called the Danforth University Center, was designed by Tsoi/Kobus and Associates to achieve gold-level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.
The new home Carl A. Fields Center at Princeton U. will renovate and expand a 1901 eating-club building. (Image courtesy of Ann Beha Architects)
Old and new at Princeton: Work is under way on a new home for Princeton University’s Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, which “acknowledges, respects, and promotes diversity” at Princeton. The center’s new home, designed by Ann Beha Architects, will graft a contemporary addition on to a 1901 Italianate structure that once housed the Elm Club, an eating club for students.
Expansion at Richard Stockton: Officials at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey have created a nonprofit foundation to buy, lease, develop, and manage land around the college campus that might one day be used for expansion, according to The Press of Atlantic City. In the short term, the public liberal-arts institution is interested in five nearby residential lots as well as a five-acre site near one of the college’s entrances. Among the possible uses for newly acquired land would be faculty housing.
Museum groundbreaking: Utah’s governor, Jon Huntsman Jr., helped the University of Utah break ground for its big new Utah Museum of Natural History, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects and intended to achieve gold-level LEED certification. The building, due to open in the winter of 2010-11, is expected to cost about $98-million.
The Utah Museum of Natural History is due to open in 2011. (U. of Utah image)
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