Shop Talk: Construction in Boston and Yucaipa, Calif., Scavenging, and More

Final four: The police arrested four protesters who climbed down out of a 90-foot redwood tree at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday. The arrests ended a two-year standoff between protesters and the university, which plans to construct a new athletics building where a grove of trees stood until last weekend.

Building on Beacon Hill: In Boston, Suffolk University is planning a 10-story, $68-million academic building on Beacon Hill. Neighbors have welcomed the plan, in part because the building will replace an abandoned structure.

Scavenging pays off: A Ball State University architecture professor is among five finalists for a $100,000 design prize that the University of Kentucky awards to honor projects with world-changing potential. The professor, Wes Janz, scavenges construction materials and uses them to build shelters.

A new library is under construction at Crafton Hills College. (Crafton Hills College image)

Long-awaited additions: Two new buildings are in the works at Crafton Hills College, a two-year institution in Yucaipa, Calif., with a hilly, five-building original campus designed in the 1960s by E. Stewart Williams, a prominent Palm Springs architect. The new buildings — a three-story library and a natatorium — are the first in almost 10 years for the 6,000-student institution.

Spontaneous growth: A lengthy article in the Seattle University magazine describes how the institution “evolved out of the original city street grid, growing spontaneously for decades.”