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Colgate University Residence Halls

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Colgate University Residence Halls

Originally a water tower in concrete, designed by architect Ragnar Ossian Swensson and built in 1936. In 2008 the tower was rebuilt and an extension was made. Now there are 74 student apartments in the tower and a common roof terrace with a wonderful view of the city of Gothenburg. Architect: Knut Fredrikson.

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like ink to paper

only here paint to pavement

left for all to see

left out in the elements

braving the cold

the blistering sun

by darkness of a moonless night

a masked artist descends upon steps

fluid are his motions

quick one and done

gone fleeting in the evening

as the city begins to awake

traffic on the sidewalks

pedestrians passing by

no one takes the time to admire

the works of a word genius

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Colgate University Residence Halls

Baker House Dormitory (Alvar Aalto; Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, 1946-1949). An excellent and early (for the US) example of the brick-modernist vocabulary turned to something subtler, suppler and more variegated than the great majority of its applications. Fans of the Aalto office will note such signature touches as the copious use of warmly-colored wood on the interior, the selection of bricks of varying depth and texture, the slight enlargement of hallways to form common areas, and a general avoidance of rectilinear bunker form. The last of these, in this case, is accomplished by bending the whole plan into a gentle snake's curve, embracing without completely capturing outdoor space and granting residents a variety of views.

Dining hall, with sunken seating area.

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Architects; Ahrends Burton Koralek, 1972.

Another 'good one' from the heydays of 60s and 70s University growth.

ABK are showing all their 'brush work' and fitting the Rose Place off St Aldates like a glove.

Other ABK buildings in their set here.

This is a repeat upload and I would like to take you back to this building to show you some interior photos. I recently managed to get into this building during some maintenance work but despite dust covers and builders scaffolds their gift of using daylight inside with distinct grasp of form building is at display here.

University of Victoria (UVic) students are benefiting from more on-campus housing with the first of two new student-housing buildings opening, ready for students to move in and call the spaces home.

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The St George's Centre building also features a cafe lounge.

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University of Illinois Postcard collection, postcard 229, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana, Illinois.

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At publicly funded campuses like Michigan State University the legislators for the state took away budget support little by little, resulting in bigger than cost-of-living increases in fees and tuition paid by in-state and out-of-state students since the early 2000s. With the federal influx of state funding, some of the state's own revenues are being returned to higher education budgets in 2022 or 2023. Whether this relief will trickle down to tuition payers or not is yet to be seen, though. At any rate as the cost of college attendance ramped up fewer applied for admission. Those attending sometimes needed food pantries to sustain themselves with free or reduced food.

This photo was taken an hour too late. On the countertop are six bottles of hand sanitizer for apartment block renters to make use of at no charge. To the right there were cans of food sitting out, free for the taking: 5 or 6 tiny cans of cocktail-sized sausages (open and ready to eat) and 2 or 3 cans of mixed vegetables. But before going to get the camera/phone from the car to record the ethnographic moment, somebody had scooped up the cans!

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A design argument after my own heart: pushing back against the prevailing trend towards lavish, apartment-like suite living for undergrads, the architects insist that the old-fashioned, cheap, simple double-loaded corridor provides the most viable setting for student social and academic life, provided the corridors don't become too long. Two short blocks meet at a 90-degree angle, forming a square-ish space through which a pedestrian path leads downhill to the baseball field. This space is transformed into a unifying courtyard by the addition of two more planes of enclosure; these form a lightweight screen whose cladding in masonry and channel glass unites the wings as one "building" while keeping the courtyard bright and airy. Small cantilevered study-spaces project out alternately from the ends of the corridors or from the common rooms off to one side, further expressing the existence of each individual hall-community while reducing the institutional dullness of walking down corridors towards blank walls and fire stairs. (See drawings and better photos at the architects' website.)

I really like this project. Back in a coda to my Wexner appreciation, I defended the virtues of blah midcentury college spaces as being, almost inadvertently, ideal for the explorations of interests, identities, and new relationships that were an integral part of my undergraduate experience. A college looking to foster the development of well-rounded and engaged humans would do better to build their dorms thoughtfully than to swell tuitions with expensive student union monuments or the enswaddling amenities of private life. Notwithstanding the gabled roofs, LTL refuse comforting symbols of homeyness and campus-tour wow-factor moves, trusting instead that dorm living is almost all right. I have to agree.

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View On Black

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Colgate University Residence Halls

Architects: Leslie Martin & Colin St. John Wilson, 1960-62.

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Colgate University Residence Halls

New Residence buildings on St. John's campus

Image taken by Chris Hammond, November 2013

Architect: Arne Jacobsen. All images are scanned from slides taken in Spring 1966.

The tree seen here is historical. Jacobsen designed the circular lawn and positioned this particular species of tree in a very particular position. Unfortunately the tree decided to to die soon after planting. This caused a real mayhem and subsequently another species was chosen for replacement (no doubt, with architects approval) and that tree is what you see now.

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Colgate University Residence Halls

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Colgate University Residence Halls

Gonville & Caius College, Harvey Court, Cambridge.

See this set for more of this and other projects by these architects.

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Studenthousing (built 2015, see tags for further known data). Op dit werk is een Creative Commons Licentie van toepassing.

Architects; Leslie Martin & Colin St John Wilson. 1960-62.

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