Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:14am
Soon after the late Eero Saarinen ARCH ’34 took the commission to design a new hockey rink for Yale in 1956, he sent an associate, David Powrie, on a trip. In a telephone interview last week, Powrie recalled his whirlwind journey across the northeast almost as a reconnaissance mission. He remembers cataloging the details of an assortment of New England’s many rinks...
For the first time since a new roof was installed in the ’80s, a wall of metal scaffolding climbs up the High Street side of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. Current construction on the building will not dramatically alter the structure of the building but rather repair existing maintenance problems, beginning with repairs to the roof, Director of the...
When Stan Garstka visited the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business recently, he was sure to check out its locker rooms, showers and all. Garstka is not a coach, though. He is deputy dean of the Yale School of Management. And his visit to Chicago is nothing if not an indicator of the distinctive approach SOM officials are taking as they plan for a new...
Two engineers working on the renovation of the Rudolph Building — formerly the Art and Architecture building — were stranded 100 feet high on faulty scaffolding Thursday evening. Around 5 p.m., as the two were examining one of the building’s walls, a cable that held the platform on which they were standing failed, leaving them dangling. City firefighters and the...
Beginning today, the stretch of Chapel Street in front of the Art & Architecture Building will be cut to one lane to allow workers to make sanitary and storm sewer connections, City Hall Spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said in a press release. The road’s narrowing will continue for six to eight weeks. Workers at the Colony Inn, which is also under construction further down...
As housing draw season approaches, students in all 12 residential colleges have begun the angst-ridden process of deciding where to live. But for Calhoun College residents, this year’s process will be particularly difficult. With Calhoun set to undergo renovations next year, about 70 Calhoun students met with the college’s dean, Leslie Woodward, to discuss the move...
For decades, Yale students have schlepped to 17 Hillhouse Ave. in hopes of battling off the tiny germs that cause their colds and coughs. But a few years from now, the only thing tiny they will find there are the nanowires and quantum dots that have captured the intrigue of Yale engineers. Yale University Health Services will move into a striking new building behind the...
PRINCETON, N.J. — For four years, the students in Alan Chimacoff’s freshman seminar here at Princeton University were undivided in their conservatism. Chimacoff probably taught a few political liberals during that time. But architecturally, his students unanimously favored the traditional over the contemporary — in this case, Collegiate Gothic over svelte...
While the future of Yale’s two new residential colleges becomes increasingly certain, it was the future of Yale’s two most recently built residential colleges — Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges — that were a subject of discussion at Wednesday’s meeting of the New Haven City Plan Commission. The team of designers responsible for the Morse and Ezra Stiles...
Late last night, the nearly vacant Malone Engineering Center was fully lit. Not surprising, perhaps, for many buildings, except that the Malone Center received a gold certification, the second-highest rating, from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’s Green Building Rating System . An apparent discrepancy between environmental efficiency and the popular...
Paul Rudolph’s orange carpet is coming back to Yale. In what can best be described as a carpet-to-skylights renovation, the Art & Architecture Building is being brought back to — and in some ways, beyond — its original design. And an addition, which will house the History of Art Department, is going up adjacent to former architecture dean Rudolph’s 1963 Brutalist...
There were slides of Harvard’s brick-clad buildings, of Stanford’s mission-revival aesthetic, but Yale’s distinctively eclectic campus was physically on display at this weekend’s symposium on university architecture. Although attendees learned of campus buildings across the country, they sat in Louis Kahn’s Art Gallery, having walked past Kahn’s British Art...
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