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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: Anne Stephenson
Even the greenest construction project increases a college’s carbon footprint.
Other News
Land-Rich Universities Weigh New Options for Real-Estate Development
Universities are taking advantage of new ways to develop their holdings through corporate partnerships, a new report says.
U. of Iowa Begins Mucking Out and Assessing the Damage
The university's insurer spent the weekend starting to assess the damage to the auditorium and 19 other flooded buildings.
U. of Iowa Flooding Takes Costly Toll in Research and Equipment
Parking lots are under water, some roads leading to the campus are closed, and the campus utility infrastructure is damaged.
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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13-Story Building by Maki Will Replace Cooper Union's Engineering School
Renderings of the building planned for the Astor Place site now occupied by the Cooper Union’s engineering school have turned up in The Villager, a New York newspaper serving downtown neighborhoods. Construction will begin after the art, architecture, and engineering college completes a new academic building by Thom Mayne’s firm, Morphosis, that is under construction at Third Avenue and Sixth Street.
The 13-story building that will replace the engineering school will occupy land that Cooper Union owns but has leased to Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. as a way of generating income. The 410,000-square-foot building, designed by Fumihiko Maki of Maki and Associates, will consist primarily of rentable office space, along with some retail areas and possibly some space for education uses, The Villager said.
The newspaper notes that Astor Place is becoming an architectural hot spot, with new buildings nearby by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects and by Carlos Zapata Studio. Cooper Union’s main building was designed by Frederick A. Peterson and opened in 1859. Its interior received a striking renovation in 1974 by John Hejduk, then dean of Cooper Union’s architecture school.
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