January 2008 Archive

The president rejects a plan by Sean O’Keefe, whose last day as the Baton Rouge chancellor is Friday

Constructed for the first female astronomy professor in the United States, the building will now house the college’s education department.

All but Tennessee’s move ahead.

A university planner describes how Yale’s facilities office does its job.

The idea is being pushed by a coalition of eight architecture, landscape-architecture, and design organizations

Catholic University of America challenged its students to produce designs for a papal altar.

Frank Lloyd Wright slams James Gamble Rogers, Yale’s president makes promises in Davos, and other items from a gathering of university architects.

“Mindless commodity architecture” should be no more acceptable on college campuses than “second-rate physics or banal history,” one professor says.

Several downtown institutions will share eight floors of the building.

The University of Washington plans to jointly appoint Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, partners at the well-known firm KieranTimberlake, to an endowed professorship in sustainability; Brown University has announced that it will try to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions to 42 percent below 2007 levels by 2020

News about college and university buildings — and bikes.

Contrary to what some might think, the contest was not conceived as an opportunity to slam George W. Bush

After some hesitation, the institution has signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment.

Small grants for preservation planning went to 86 colleges and universities, and had a big impact.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs this weekend in the Illinois Institute of Technology’s S.R. Crown Hall.

News from campuses across the country

A proposal to run the new Purple Line down the College Park campus’s main street worries university officials.

The “Sherlock Holmes of construction” says fundamental errors affect up to 20 percent of new buildings.

Joel Tauber took a liking to a lonely tree in a parking lot at the Rose Bowl.

Buildings-and-grounds news from across the country and beyond.

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Persuading colleges to embrace climate neutrality, efficiency, and sustainability is going to take more than a moral argument.

The new Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University is a contemporary building that respects its older neighbors.

News items about building projects from across the country.

An article by Fred Mayer focuses on high-profile plans that the U. of Michigan rejected.

By now, the library-as-bunker idea is played out. Same goes for the library-as-outhouse, which wasn’t original in the first place

The university chooses a high-profile architect for its new art museum.

We’re asking for your input. Starting soon, The Chronicle’s Buildings & Grounds blog will feature monthly guest writers who will post thoughts about facilities, sustainability, design and planning for all to read.

Minnesota’s governor has proposed spending $1-billion on public works, but much of that money would go to bridge repair. Less money than usual would go to college building projects.

Holzman Moss’s 70-foot-high tower would be the tallest structure on the university’s campus.

News in buildings and grounds from across the country

Building features recycled carpeting and solar panels that provide 30 percent of its electrical needs.

The university has purchased a 1932 Quaker Oats grain elevator that was later converted to a hotel.

Saving green space with underground structures, saving buildings with a historic-district designation, and saving money by reusing an outlet store.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has announced its 2007 awards, which recognize excellence in architecture education, creative achievement, designs by faculty members and students, writing about architecture, and other categories

The Worcester Business Journal catalogs the campus improvements at various colleges

CUNY Trustees seeking $178-million for aging infrastructure, a pressing concern at New York colleges.

An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York will showcase houses by professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Munich.

Ranchers are asking New Mexico State University to preserve its livestock facilities on campus, along with the agricultural education that goes with them

New buildings for Charles R. Drew University and Shaw University; a winning design for Michigan State’s new art museum; and a preservation award for Central Piedmont Community College

A 38-acre parcel will be filled with restaurants, movie theaters, a grocery store, and other amenities

A copy of an architecture firm’s plan reaches a nearby newspaper, and carries a $260-million price tag

A 1913 gymnasium is the last remnant of an Illinois college that closed in 1930

The winning design is “seriously” over the project’s $30-million budget.

A midwinter drinking party for minors destroys furnishings in the poet’s summer home.

Your design might not win a commission for the building, but it could win an iPod Touch.

After being moved 185 feet, the building has been restored for a new use.

Stories about the U. of Wisconsin, Old Dominion U., New Mexico State U., and many more institutions

Anderson Memorial Library, which originally was built for the College of Emporia, houses the university archive.

The 90-year-old Dinkydome began as home to the Minnesota Bible College, but it has long housed businesses related to the university, fast-food restaurants, and a coffee shop

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