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College Employees Value Campus Environment, 'Chronicle' Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list. (Chronicle photograph of Washington & Lee U.)
Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Marc Mayerson
Like swashbuckling movie heroes, facilities planners take on herculean tasks.
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New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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A Kansas Community College Opens a 'Perfect Container for Art'
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art has opened on the campus of Johnson County Community College, in Overland Park, Kan. (Photos by Timothy Hursley, The Arkansas Office)
Johnson County Community College has opened a $13-million art museum — designed by Kyu Sung Woo Architects, of Cambridge, Mass. — that The Kansas City Star says is “the perfect container for art.”
The new two-story building, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, has 11,000 square feet of exhibition space as well as 5,400 square feet of academic space. An auditorium, a cafe, and storage areas fill out the building, which is connected to the college’s technology center by a 3,000-square-foot atrium. The architect of record is Gould Evans Associates.
The college, which serves more than 34,000 students each semester, is located on a 234-acre campus in Overland Park, Kan., near Kansas City. It was founded in 1972.
The museum’s cafe spills through a wall into the atrium that connects the new structure to an existing technology center.
A skylight illuminates an interior staircase.
The museum’s glass-walled lobby runs along one side of the building.
Visitors enter the museum through a doorway under a cantilevered gallery.
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WOW! And just when I thought that JCCC couldn’t possibly offer more art than it already has. For those of you who work in community colleges who have never had the pleasure of visiting JCCC
this is just another reason to drive out of your way to visit.
— catherine petersen Dec 19, 04:25 PM #