Sketches of Stern’s New Undergraduate Colleges for Yale U. Are Found Online

Yale University has put a number of construction projects on hold because of the recession, including two big new undergraduate residential colleges that were originally scheduled to open in 2013. But planning for the colleges continues, and on Tuesday the Yale Daily News published unreleased renderings of the new buildings, which are being designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Mr. Stern is also dean of the university’s architecture school.

The images show Collegiate Gothic buildings with courtyards and massive towers. The newspaper reports that Mr. Stern hopes the towers will serve as landmarks for the two colleges. Because Yale has run out of room in the vicinity of its existing residential colleges, designed by James Gamble Rogers and later by Eero Saarinen, the two new complexes are to be built some distance away — on the opposite side of the Grove Street Cemetery, near Saarinen’s Ingalls ice rink and the university’s Science Hill buildings.

The university did not immediately confirm the authenticity of the sketches, which a reporter for the newspaper found on the Web site of an artist hired by Mr. Stern’s firm to do the renderings. But a donor to the university who was contacted by the paper confirmed having been shown the same sketches.