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Friday, April 18, 1975
University Dally Kansan
University construction continues
By SHANNON GREENE Kansan Staff Reporter
In the last few years the University of Kansas has experienced a building boom. The sights and sounds of construction workers and their machines now are ignored or taken for granted by most students and faculty on the KU campus.
Students who return look upon unfamiliar scenes of modern buildings which fill the spots older buildings once did. Other buildings appear where green fields once erased.
The recent completions of Wescow Hall, for the humanities; Moore Hall, for geological survey; and Watkins Memorial Hospital merely signaled the beginning of additions to the main University campus. The School of Engineering at Learned Hall is present undergoing major additions to its original structure. Within the next few months, the School of Art museum should hear their groundbreakings. In the next year, construction on a new computer center also will be started.
CONSTRUCTION AT LEARNED, A $3,750.00 payment, was started in September 1973. The completion date is set for next fall. The building is being built on top of the original structure. A five-story wing is being added to the east end of the building to accommodate a laboratory. The wing will contain square feet to the existing 100,000 square feet.
The new space is for the departments of chemical and petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering and the environmental engineering division of the civil engineering department. Those facilities are three other buildings. Present facilities at Learned house the departments of aerospace, civil and electrical engineering.
The need for a new or remodeled law was expressed in 1896, when Frankle Murphy wrote, occupation
FACILITIES AT GREEN Hall were designed to accommodate 150 students and an essential library of law books. In 1956, an addition was made to the building to house the rapidly expanding law school. Now the enrollment of about 430 students, the law school is overcrowded.
A new five-story structure of 95,435 square feet should be completed in the fall of 1977. It will accommodate the school's 140,600 library collection and 120,000 classrooms. The building also will provide classrooms, seminar rooms, faculty offices, ad-
History . . .
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ministrative areas and accompanying faculty for a maximum enrollment of 860 students.
The new law school, of reinforced concrete with bronze trim and glass, will be built on the west side of the main campus, north and slightly west of Allen Field House.
SEVERAL INNOVATIONS are planned for the law library. The traditional large, noisy reading room will be replaced with student study locations located in the classroom, and will be several student workrooms, designed for groups of four to eight students.
"Work is suspended. Cares are pushed aside. With the Goddess of Play and Amusement as your guide, this weekend will be one continuous round of pleasure."
A legal aid service clinic and other clinics will be provided as a public service.
"This new building will be a great thing for the school," said Martin Dean, dean
trans for the use of Green Hall, once it vacated, haven't been determined yet. However, the building has been designated as a structure of national architectural and historical importance. It has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places, an official schedule that lists structures, an official object and objects preserved because of their place in American history, architecture, archeology and culture.
THE VISUAL ARTS department, now housed in 13 different locations, will finally come together. A $5,750,000 building should be underway in late summer or early fall.
The new facility will include administrative offices for the associate dean; offices; classrooms and studios for the department of design and the department of art; and galleries and a sculpture gallery. Specific areas are designated for painting, drawing, and
printmaking; sculpture; interior and industrial design; graphic design, illustration and film; weaving; ceramics; and silversmithing design.
The site for the new structure is the northeast corner of 15th and Naismith Drive. The old mechanical engineering shops were razed recently to provide the spot for the building. It will contain 116,444 square feet of space. A total of 829,613 square feet was built in 2009. The old Fowler Hall, which will be vacated by the department of mechanical engineering.
THE NEW VISUAL ARTS building will be contemporary in design with a brick exterior finish. Clear glass windows and skylights will provide the natural light required for studio areas. Although the building will have six levels of height, there are four floors of floors. Because of the terrain of the building site, there will be several partial floors.
Construction of a $4.6 million art museum for the University also should begin soon. The university has already granted a grant from the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation, Kansas City, Mo. A $250,000 grant from the Kress Foundation of New York will help finance the con-
A new museum is needed because of cramped quarters and fire hazards in Spooner Hall, present home of the University of Kansas Art Museum. Most of the museum's collection isn't on display because of limited space in Spooner. Many of the pieces are placed in a fireproof, humidity-controlled area in Spencer Research Library.
THE PROPOSED MUSEUM will be built immediately west of the Kansas Union. The museum will be located at 106th Street.
limestone similar to the exterior of the Spencer library. It will have five floors. The top floor of the building will have administrative offices and storage rooms. The third and fourth floors will house the galleries of the museum, and the two lower floors of classrooms, offices and an art library will be finished later.
A two-story computer center is being planned with a proposed date for the start of construction in the summer of 1976. The site for the 50,000 square feet building is in the southwest corner of Sunnyside Ave. and Illinois.
Allen Wiechert, assistant to the director of facilities, planning and operations, said the new center will house all the computer hardware now at Summerfield Hall. It also will provide easy access to students, whether they're at the computer center or at another campus campus which has the computer to make remote job entries to the center's computer.
THE NEW FACILITY will replace all computer operations at Summerfield Hall, Wiechert said. Summerfield which wasn't designed for computers, which need raised floors, special air conditioning and large power supplies, will be grown to 20 percent of computer science in recent years, the present facilities at Summerfield simply weren't enough, he said.
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