Anonymous wrote:From the tour circuit :
-Amherst has a new dining and student center opening in about a year I think they said. The computer model renderings are gorgeous.
-Cornell has a new computer/data science complex, on campus, that is opening in the next 6-8 months.
-Penn has two new science/engineering buildings, opening in the next 3-5 months, on campus. They each will have dedicated space for undergraduates in the majors as well as open study areas/lounges for all students.
-Penn also has a new performing arts complex to be completed in 2026, on campus. The two main art venues (including theater space, dance studios, music) are great but the new center will be another level. They showed renderings.

Cornell has an absolutely new gorgeous underclassmen women's dorm....like stunning. Balch?

Probably not a surprise to anyone that Northeastern is a leader in this department.
Below are some of the recent highlights.

Opened new science and research building late last year.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/northeastern-university-state-of-the-art-research-center-exp/45549973

Acquired Maymount in NYC. This should be great addition in the areas of performing art, theater, art in general for the school.
https://huntnewsnu.com/78391/campus/northeastern-announces-merger-with-marymount-manhattan-college-in-new-york-city/

32 story new dorm building permit approved
https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/03/14/columbus-ave-new-dorm-plan/

Just won a legal battle to build a new 55,000SF research facility at a 20 acres of great Boston location.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/09/17/northeastern-scores-legal-win-in-fight-over-nahant-marine-research-center/

More future plans
https://huntnewsnu.com/78711/campus/northeastern-released-its-institutional-master-plan-for-the-next-decade-heres-a-breakdown/

Go Huskies

William and Mary also with a brand new arts complex for theater, dance, and music. Expansion to their art museum will complete this year. New dorms built and renovated. They will be starting on a new campus center area with bookstore, dining and more dorms.

Emerson will have a new gym in October. Accessible through a dorm.

Bard's new performing arts center looks so cool!

https://www.thedailycatch.org/articles/maya-lin-performing-arts-building-at-bard-set-to-start-construction-18-month-timeline-seen/

Is there a lot of Penn you don't see on a tour?

Anonymous wrote:I think Penn is also re-doing two of the old dorms. Not in a half assed way, totally rethinking them. We didn't find the Penn campus enviable, but I think that might change in a few years.

EVERY old dorm will be completed with amazing renos in the next year or so. Most upper class dorms were already nice, almost all singles within suites, with full kitchens. With the renovations, Penn has changed a lot since my first graduated in '22 and our current student started last fall. The main campus green areas on locust walk and over the walkway bridge to the upperclass living quads have always been pretty. Most people do not see "real" campus because they drive around it and do not park and walk through. You cannot see the beauty of locust walk, college green, all of the historic buildings including levine and college hall, houston hall (old historic student union that is redone and new on the inside), Fisher library, and the open grassy quads from the street parking around the outside of the main campus area. The freshman quad area on the south border of campus was also always pretty just old, and the large grassy areas closed off to non-students. Now with half post renovation it is quite beautiful, but still closed to non students. The best kept secret is the wooded bio-pond /botanical garden area is reached by foot only, behind the freshman quads and off the back corner of the med school campus/hospital, not seen from the roads.
The new science buildings and art center mentioned by a PP are being put around the outside edges of campus where there is street parking--nothing is being added to the interior/green/historic part of campus/locust walk.

Eh, just following up on the OP's question which specifically called out Georgetown's new blah buildings. I think this is more of the same. New, yes. Exciting, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan is working on a nearly 200,000 square foot science building, as well as an Integrative Arts Lab:

https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2024/09/09/updates-on-new-science-building-integrative-arts-lab-construction/

Also, Georgetown’s new building at 125 E St. is pretty amazing and includes art installations by Maya Lin: https://www.georgetown.edu/news/mccourt-school-of-public-policy-opens-new-home-on-the-capitol-campus/

I think the Georgetown design work cold and sterile. I'm sure they invested a fortune - it's the largest piece of what they call a 3 billion capital investment program. I just wish they had a better designer.

Compare it to what Hopkins just did with the museum conversion. The new McCourt interior looks like the "before" here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/design/00johns-hopkins-bloomberg-center-review.html

OK? The question is who is putting up new and exciting buildings. Your aesthetic perspective aside, there are examples at JHU and Georgetown.

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan is working on a nearly 200,000 square foot science building, as well as an Integrative Arts Lab:

https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2024/09/09/updates-on-new-science-building-integrative-arts-lab-construction/

Also, Georgetown’s new building at 125 E St. is pretty amazing and includes art installations by Maya Lin: https://www.georgetown.edu/news/mccourt-school-of-public-policy-opens-new-home-on-the-capitol-campus/

I think the Georgetown design work cold and sterile. I'm sure they invested a fortune - it's the largest piece of what they call a 3 billion capital investment program. I just wish they had a better designer.

Compare it to what Hopkins just did with the museum conversion. The new McCourt interior looks like the "before" here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/design/00johns-hopkins-bloomberg-center-review.html

We went on 19 college tours this year. Every school had either current construction or a newly built building (or two).

Boston University finished and opened a new computing and data sciences building not long ago

https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/explore/

Towson just did a ribbon cutting on a new health sciences building.

Anonymous wrote:No one here will likely care, but Radford just built a gorgeous new building for their arts programs.

https://www.radford.edu/artis-center/index.html

My daughter was accepted into their dance program and new dance spaces were definitely a big pro as she was making her decision. Radford wound up a very close #2, but we really liked Radford and I have seen pics inside the glass walled studio and am so excited for the students there.

Side note - my kid has already in a tough moment talked about transferring, so she may wind up there eventually. Obviously told her to give it more time at her current school, but won’t be mad if she changes course.

Thank you! I care! Radford graduate (‘92) and former tour guide and ambassador. I’ve often said that I’d no longer be able to lead a tour because the campus has vastly improved and changed! Looks like Artis is on the Moffett Quad.

Wesleyan is working on a nearly 200,000 square foot science building, as well as an Integrative Arts Lab:

https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2024/09/09/updates-on-new-science-building-integrative-arts-lab-construction/

Also, Georgetown’s new building at 125 E St. is pretty amazing and includes art installations by Maya Lin: https://www.georgetown.edu/news/mccourt-school-of-public-policy-opens-new-home-on-the-capitol-campus/