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being built immediately east of Jayhawk Towers between 15th Street and Ivring Hill
The new building will include a courtroom which doubles as a classroom, individual study stations, student lockers, eight office rooms and space for the Lecal Aid Clinic.
Construction of the $14.6 million Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art also passed the halfway point this summer, and she organized an opening exhibition for the fall of 1977.
The new facility is built best of the Kansas Union across Mississippi. It will be a five-level structure with an Indiana limestone exterior, like Spencer Library.
"FOR ITS size, the new law building will be one of the most attractive and best, in terms of operational efficiency, in the field. In F. Murphy, associate dean of law, said.
OFFICES, library space and classrooms will occupy the first two floors. The fifth floor will be comprised of administrative and storage areas.
The new museum is being financed primarily by the largest single endowment in university history, a gift of over $45 million. The museum, Shenor Foundation of Kansas City, Mo.
A large two-story courtyard, with a flagstone floor and chandelier hanging from the fourth floor ceiling, will form the core of the third and fourth story gallery levels.
The main level on the third story will contain galleries displaying art dating from before the 18th century. Later work will be displayed in the fourth floor galleries.
Spencer provides four times the space available in the old Spooner Art Museum. Better lighting is obtained by a combination of spot and fluorescent lighting, and safety controls to the climate controls that keep temperature and humidity constant in the new building.
Many exhibits that couldn't be displayed because of space limitations or susceptibility to damage during climate changes will be displayed.
THE 'ADDITION of Spencer gives KU to a premier art museum; the gates "will make an impression."
Centralization of separated divisions is one of the major reasons for the new Visual Arts Facility being built on the northeast corner of 15th and Naimsith.
"The 13 different locations of the fine arts divisions, which ranged from cellars to attics, will be united in the new facility," Wiechert said.
Completion of the gray, steel framework makes the construction 15 per cent finished, Wiechert said. The $7.55 million building will include administrative offices; a sculpture and printing, sculpture and design departments; and display and sculpture galleries.
THERE WILL be more than 116,000 square feet of floor space in the facility with these facilities.
ting and printmaking; sculpture; interior and industrial design; graphic designs, illustration and film; weaving; ceramics; and silversmithing design.
The six-level building will have a brick exterior finish, with glass windows and skylights providing natural light for studio areas. In addition, the project will remodel 30,000 square feet of space in old Fowler Hall for fine arts department use.
Wiechert said classes will be held in the new facility in fall 1978.
CENTRALIZATION is also one of the main advantages of the recently approved Department of Education expenditure will bring computer staff, equipment and operations together in a building at the corner of Sunnyside Avenue and 400 feet east of Robinson gymnasium.
The first level will house the machine or operations area, and access will be limited to computer center staff. However, an observation window on the second floor will provide a view of operations for users and visitors.
"The new visual arts facility will be very beautiful and functional, allowing much better interplay between faculty and students," Joan Schneid, associate degen of fine arts, said.
One of the major features of the second levels a 100-person capacity auditorium. Wiechert said the auditorium has great potential for many uses, being equipped with power and microphone outlets, a tooth, and other multi-media capabilities.
THE BUILDING is designed to be energy efficient. Extra insulation and a minimum number of narrow windows will prevent heat loss, allowing the heat from the computers to warm the building during the winter.
Heat from the computers will be so great that the building will be air conditioned at least nine months of the year, Wiechert said.
Safety features in the new building include a fireproof pre-cast concrete panel exterior, smoke and water detectors below the floor and above the ceiling, fire extinguishers, and two electrical lines with an automatic transfer switch.
Should one electrical line fail, the other line will immediately take over, thus avoiding ruining programs being run at the time of a power failure.
A DRIVE-IP window facility will add to convenience.
"Users can call up for something from their office then drive down and pick it up at the window at their leisure," Paul Wolfe, coordinator of University computing said.
Bids on the project will be taken soon and construction should begin late this fall, Wiechert said. The University expects to occupy the building by fall 1978.
Preliminary planning has been finished and construction drawings are being made for the $6.7 million addition to Robinson gymnasium. Bidding for the addition will
begin next July when state funds for the next fiscal year become available, Wierchert叮
Facilities will be added to both sides of Robinson. Physical education facilities, including multi-purpose exercise rooms, a weight room, two large gymnas, ten handball courts, two squash courts, a pool and lockers will be added to the west side.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION classrooms will be added to the east side of the building. If all goes as scheduled, the addition will be available to students in fall 1979.
"The Robinson addition will allow us to open the gate on meeting the demand for recreation which currently supercedes available facilities." Tom Wilkerson, coordinator of recreation, services said. "We look forward to expanding our programs with opportunities by a lot of new programs made possible by the new facility."
The addition to Malott Hall is also scheduled for bidding next July, with completion of construction scheduled for the fall of 1979.
The science library will be expanded and space for School of Pharmacy offices, schools, libraries and other facilities.
The addition will also provide office space for the new University veterinarian and animal care administration. Animal care laboratory research labs are also scheduled to be built.
PRELIMINARY plans for the $11.5 million addition are currently being made with final floor plans to be made early this fall. The construction will add 100,000 square feet of floor space to the south end of Malott.
"The space provided by the Malott addition will give us much needed room to breathe." Hugh A. Cotton, associate dean of the School of Nursing, said facilities are crucial to our total program."
The proposed satellite student union to be built northwest of Allen Field House has run into financial problems necessitating revaluation of plans. By early fall a task force called the university facilities are feasible in light of the $2.5 million budgetary limitation, Wiechert said.
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Whecht said preliminary designs would be done by early this fall and construction would begin next summer. The new union could be completed as early as fall 1978.
The University of Kansas was one of three schools in the nation to be chosen by the federal government for continuing education facilities. An architect has been hired and preliminary plans are being made with an $86,000 grant provided by the federal government.
The building site will be the location of the present continuing education building on Mississippi Street, immediately north of the campus. No completion date has been estimated.
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