Campus architecture
Posted by David Harding
Campus architecture
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: June 06, 2015 05:40PM
A few tidbits on campus architecture:
A remake of Rand Hall as fine arts library, with a major change to the exterior. [ithacavoice.com]
University suees Pei Cobb Freed & Partners over flaws in Johnson Museum addition. [ithacavoice.com]
Gannett Health Center expension. [ithacavoice.com]
Another monster apartment building in Collegetown [ithacavoice.com]
A remake of Rand Hall as fine arts library, with a major change to the exterior. [ithacavoice.com]
University suees Pei Cobb Freed & Partners over flaws in Johnson Museum addition. [ithacavoice.com]
Gannett Health Center expension. [ithacavoice.com]
Another monster apartment building in Collegetown [ithacavoice.com]
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Kyle Rose (---.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com)
Date: June 06, 2015 06:34PM
A lot more than one monster apartment building is needed to bring rents back to sane levels on the hill.David Harding
Another monster apartment building in Collegetown [ithacavoice.com]
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Robb (---.lsanca.fios.verizon.net)
Date: June 07, 2015 11:13AM
What are rents these days? When I was there (90-94), $300/person/month would get you a crappy dive, but I have no clue how much the luxe apartments in C-town were going for - never even considered going that route.Kyle Rose
A lot more than one monster apartment building is needed to bring rents back to sane levels on the hill.David Harding
Another monster apartment building in Collegetown [ithacavoice.com]
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Tom Lento (199.201.64.---)
Date: June 08, 2015 09:30PM
Robb
What are rents these days? When I was there (90-94), $300/person/month would get you a crappy dive, but I have no clue how much the luxe apartments in C-town were going for - never even considered going that route.Kyle Rose
A lot more than one monster apartment building is needed to bring rents back to sane levels on the hill.David Harding
Another monster apartment building in Collegetown [ithacavoice.com]
I got curious so I just did a quick search. $2300 for a 2-bedroom in one of those big C-town buildings on Dryden between College and Eddy, $800 for a room in an 8 bedroom group housing unit, and $1300 for a studio/1-br. Pricing on 3 and 4 bedroom units wasn't available because they're all rented out. That's eye-popping compared with 15 years ago when I was paying $575/month for a 1-bedroom in a house about 4 blocks from there. I seem to remember rents in those buildings were always pretty high by area standards but I'd be surprised if a 2-BR was more than $1500 back then.
By pure chance* the Lakeland Apartment complex popped up as one of the top hits. I lived in a 3 bedroom there and I seem to remember rent being about $350/month plus utilities (~$1300 for all 3 of us because I don't think it was an even split). Looks like it's up to $1450 for a 2-bedroom. I don't remember what those were going for but I think it was around $1100/month.
* Probably not pure chance, actually. I ended up living there because it was the only affordable option available to us lazy-ass cheapskates. We didn't start looking for housing until mid-March, so I'm guessing their target markets haven't shifted much.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2015 03:34PM by Tom Lento.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (204.27.156.---)
Date: June 09, 2015 07:58AM
Back when I was a lad...
In '80-'82, I lived in a three bedroom apartment on Dryden Rd. with hot and cold running cockroaches right around the corner from Dunbar's. This was when there was still a park across the street. We each paid $140/month.
Times change.
In '80-'82, I lived in a three bedroom apartment on Dryden Rd. with hot and cold running cockroaches right around the corner from Dunbar's. This was when there was still a park across the street. We each paid $140/month.
Times change.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: June 09, 2015 10:16AM
If Cornell does not yet have parity with BU in Red Hot Hockey, off-campus apartment rents are coming close. The difference is when you get a half-mile from campus in Ithaca, you can't sustain those rent levels.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: June 10, 2015 10:49PM
That was quick. Five buildings on the south side of Dryden Road east of College Ave are down [ithacavoice.com], including the Palms.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: June 12, 2015 04:01PM
'82-83 on Dryden Road, practically across from the purple piano: two bedrooms, $250 each, and we thought we were being robbed.Jeff Hopkins '82
Back when I was a lad...
In '80-'82, I lived in a three bedroom apartment on Dryden Rd. with hot and cold running cockroaches right around the corner from Dunbar's. This was when there was still a park across the street. We each paid $140/month.
Times change.
For perspective, the single year I lived in Albany I had a room with smaller dimensions than a UHall single, and paid $99 flat, including utilities.
"Do you see this quarter? It used to be a nickel."
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Trotsky (---.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
Date: July 29, 2017 09:56AM
Really good article, thank you.George64
Cornell's ever-changing campus.
Eng revisions look good. Hard to process that.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.37.26.69.virtela.net)
Date: September 13, 2017 04:56PM
Trotsky
Really good article, thank you.George64
Cornell's ever-changing campus.
Eng revisions look good. Hard to process that.
I'm going to miss the big yellow, green, and red panels. The joke about color-coding the buildings doesn't work as well with just tiny stripes.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: RichH (134.223.116.---)
Date: September 14, 2017 11:20AM
Trotsky
Really good article, thank you.George64
Cornell's ever-changing campus.
Eng revisions look good. Hard to process that.
I would rebuke you with a comment about how it looks like a boxy stack of corrugated cardboard, but almost anything is better than what had been there.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Scersk '97 (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: September 15, 2017 08:34AM
RichH
Trotsky
Really good article, thank you.George64
Cornell's ever-changing campus.
Eng revisions look good. Hard to process that.
I would rebuke you with a comment about how it looks like a boxy stack of corrugated cardboard, but almost anything is better than what had been there.
It smacks of "exterior cladding fad that will look dated very soon and disappoints when applied with such overwhelming uniformity." Looks like an "office park of the future!" past. What's so wrong with brick and stone?
Plus, it looks like we're back to hating windows again, a fad that takes hold every time our society makes ill-targeted attempts at conservation. Who doesn't like an arrow-slit window for an office!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2017 08:38AM by Scersk '97.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Trotsky (---.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
Date: September 15, 2017 12:18PM
Scersk '97
Who doesn't like an arrow-slit window for an office!
You laugh now but they're going to come in handy when the Mongols invade.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: September 15, 2017 01:33PM
Scersk '97
Plus, it looks like we're back to hating windows again, a fad that takes hold every time our society makes ill-targeted attempts at conservation.
I think that you're overstating things. Consider recent Cornell construction -- Veterinary School expansion, Klarman Hall, Physical Sciences Building, Milstein Hall, or the new buildings on Roosevelt Island. I remember when many of the windows in the original Engineering Quad buildings were covered over with aluminum foil because apparently sunlight interfered with whatever went on inside.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Trotsky (---.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
Date: September 15, 2017 05:01PM
George64
sunlight interfered with whatever went on inside.
The sex. It had to have been all the sex.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: TimV (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: September 15, 2017 06:06PM
Heh. Engineer sex.
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Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Scersk '97 (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: September 15, 2017 09:40PM
Trotsky
George64
sunlight interfered with whatever went on inside.
The sex. It had to have been all the sex.
Nah, that's what the rooves are for.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: George64 (---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)
Date: March 13, 2018 04:10PM
Pritzker Prize winning Cornell architecture alumnus accused of (and tacitly admits to) sexual harassment. Richard Meier ‘56 recently endowed the chairmanship of AAP architecture department.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: March 13, 2018 04:50PM
In other news, many rich people are entitled assholes.George64
Pritzker Prize winning Cornell architecture alumnus accused of (and tacitly admits to) sexual harassment. Richard Meier ‘56 recently endowed the chairmanship of AAP architecture department.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: George64 (---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)
Date: March 13, 2018 10:12PM
George64
Pritzker Prize winning Cornell architecture alumnus accused of (and tacitly admits to) sexual harassment. Richard Meier ‘56 recently endowed the chairmanship of AAP architecture department.
Email from Kent Kleinman, dean of AAP.
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: TimV (---.amc.edu)
Date: March 20, 2018 10:52AM
If the donor decided to shift the money to Women's hockey as a sign of repentance and to make amends, would they accept it?
___________________________
"Yo Paulie - I don't see no crowd gathering 'round you neither."
"Yo Paulie - I don't see no crowd gathering 'round you neither."
Re: Campus architecture
Posted by: George64 (---.hsd1.fl.comcast.net)
Date: March 20, 2018 12:16PM
TimV
If the donor decided to shift the money to Women's hockey as a sign of repentance and to make amends, would they accept it?
I’m not counting on it, so I made my annual gift to Women’s Ice Hockey this morning.
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