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After Bumps and Bribery Charges, Frank Gehry's Library Opens at Princeton
For its trouble, the university has gotten a structure that will probably inspire and delight those who work in it. (Photo by Brian Wilson, Princeton U.)
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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.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved that the damage wasn't more severe.
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As Credit Crisis Freezes Colleges, Worries Mount
Colleges have often considered themselves recession-proof. But this week’s events compounded an already-difficult year for many institutions.
Princeton’s Campus Plan Comes Into Full Bloom
The plan "treats the campus as a series of neighborhoods and encourages increasing density."
Loren Pope, Admissions Adviser and Author Known for 'Usonian' House, Dies
In 1939, when he was a $50-a-week newspaper copy editor, he commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a 1,200-square-foot house that is now a museum.
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Art College in Oregon Will Take Over Historic Post Office
The federal government will give this 1916 post-office building to the Pacific Northwest College of Art. (Image courtesy of PNCA)
The Pacific Northwest College of Art has won an unusual jackpot: an imposing 1916 U.S. post office in the Old Town district of Portland, Ore.
The 129,700-square-foot building, designed by the San Francisco architect Lewis P. Hobart after a 1913 competition, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its current occupant, the Department of Homeland Security, plans to move out about two years from now. The art college will then renovate the building to house classrooms, studios, and other facilities, doubling the amount of space available for its programs.
A program that is run jointly by the Department of Education and the General Services Administration transfers surplus federal buildings for uses that benefit the public. The government’s acceptance of the 428-student college’s “100-percent public benefit” application means Pacific Northwest will pay nothing to acquire the structure.
Other art colleges have also reused unusual buildings. The Maine College of Art occupies—among other buildings—the former Porteous, Mitchell & Braun department store, in downtown Portland, Me. The campus of the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, includes a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station. And the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, is in the middle of renovating a 1916 building that was constructed as an auto-assembly plant.
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