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Academic Centers for Athletes Draw Donors
More than a dozen university athletics programs have added lavish new facilities in recent years, and academic-services budgets are soaring, a Chronicle survey finds. (Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M U.)
College Employees Value Campus Environment, 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.
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)
Other News
After Hurricane Gustav, Campuses Clean Up
Cleanup crews scoured Gulf Coast campuses, removing downed limbs and repairing broken windows, while students and staff members forced out by Hurricane Gustav waited for word that they could return.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved when initial reports suggested the damage wasn't severe.
College of Southern Idaho Cafeteria Goes 'Tray-Less'
Students are also wasting less food because they no longer have the option of overloading their cafeteria trays, says the college's food-services director.
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
Student Newspaper Gets an Early Look at Yale's Architecture-Building Project
A writer for the Yale Daily News got an early look Monday at Charles Gwathmey’s renovation and expansion of the university’s 1963 Art & Architecture Building, and the tour guide was none other than Yale’s architecture dean, Robert A.M. Stern. Both Mr. Gwathmey (of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects) and Mr. Stern (of Robert A.M. Stern Architects) were architecture students at Yale while Paul Rudolph, then the dean of architecture, was designing the building (above) and overseeing its construction.
Mr. Stern told the newspaper that restoring the smallest details of the Art & Architecture Building has been a pleasure, even though research has taken “a lot of quality time.” Mr. Gwathmey said the building—an icon of architecture’s Brutalist era that is known for having orange carpet and 37 different levels—had proved indestructible. He added that “we all love it and acknowledge its eccentricities.”
For good measure, the Daily News writer interviewed another Yale alumnus, Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, who said the structure was one of the great buildings of its time. “It’s a difficult building, a problematic building, but a lot of great literature and music is difficult,” he said. “Why can’t a building be difficult?”
The project, expected to cost between $125-million and $130-million, is due to be completed this summer. No doubt the Daily News staff will be grateful, seeing as the newspaper’s building is tucked beneath Mr. Gwathmey’s addition.
The Art & Architecture Building, at left, is getting an addition, at right, by Charles Gwathmey. The small building to the right of the addition houses the Yale Daily News. (Gwathmey Siegel image)
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