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Farm Lane is now reopened. I took a ride on it on my way back from class and it looks beautiful! The change in grades makes it a lot more interesting ride as well. The CATA is still on detour, and I'm not sure when they will start taking Farm Lane. It will probably cut down on the trip time for the Commuter Lot bus from 20-25 minutes to 5-10 minutes.
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- CommentAuthorDetroitMan
- CommentTimeDec 29th 2009
MSU to spend $43.2M on Plant Science Expansion
Project is first major new building on campus since '02
Matthew Miller • Lansing State Journal • December 29, 2009
In a time of campus-wide budget cuts, Michigan State University is moving ahead with construction of the first major new building on its campus in nearly a decade.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091229/NEWS06/912290317&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL -
That ought to be nice. I'm glad to see that MSU is continuing to add buildings, I hope they continue the trend.
I just went to the MSU construction website to see if they had any renderings of this project, but they don't yet. I did find some nice looking renders of a renovation thats underway on Brody Hall.
Brody Hall renovation
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I've been by the cyclotron expansion many times, and I'll be there again tomorrow. It really looks tin-canish, and sort of clashes with all of the red brick buildings in the area, and around campus. I know it's a ways off, but it'll be pretty interesting to see what buildings wind up popping up once they've finalized FRIB plans.
Also, I know they're really moving on the Brody caf expansion, and those renderings look pretty cool. I didn't pay too much attention to that project when I last went by it a couple weeks ago, so I'll maybe try to snap a couple shots tomorrow when I'm in town. -
- CommentAuthorMichMatters
- CommentTimeDec 29th 2009 edited
Yeah, there are quite a few "older" buildings on south campus I'd like to see replaced, that is the so-called modern ones from the 60's or so that have no aged anywhere near as gracefully as the 100 years+ ones on the north campus. South campus is rife with some pretty horrible architecture. I really hope that they quit putting off the new home for UPLA Building (Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture) which is an embarrassing home for that program considering what is taught inside.
Anyone know who the architect is for the Plant Science Expansion? It'd be good to find some bigger renderings.
BTW, here are the current buildings in this complex courtesy of MSU's campus map page:
Plant & Soil Sciences
Plant Biology Labs
I'm still trying to figure out exactly which building this will be expanded onto.
EDIT: Oops, just reread the full article and it says:The new building will physically join the Plant Biology and Plant and Soil Sciences buildings.
Good to know. I'm not very familiar with that southeast end of campus, really. All I originally knew when they gave the location is that this would put it across the street from the Wharton Center. -
In the same corner of campus as the previously mentioned Plant Science Expansion, MSU announced on Thursday that they have recieved $7.45 million in federal stimulus money to build a new College Of Nursing research center. The building will be called the Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research.
It will be connected to the Life Sciences building at the corner of Bogue and Service Road. Construction is supposed to start this summer, and it looks to be three stories tall.
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I'm really liking the choice of architecture that MSU has in designing their new buildings. Did anyone ever find renderings of the Plant Science addition?
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I've found renderings of the Plant Science Extension in slides that were posted on the College of Natural Science website.
Also, I've found renderings for lots of other projects in the MSU Construction Junction publication from December 2009. It has got many renderings I had never seen before of projects that have been proposed/planning.
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The ground breaking for the Plant Science Expansion will be tomorrow (Friday) at 2pm. MSU has put out a press release with more information about the ground breaking.
The building will cost $43 million and will be 80,000 square feet. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2012. -
An article from Capital Gains: Michigan State University's Case Hall Slated For a $16 Million Renovation
It doesn't have any renderings and only limited info, but it sounds like a fairly large project. -
Some shots of the Brody Caf construction to this point:
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A press release about MSU Construction Day mentions that the current plan for demolishing Morril Hall is to replace it with an extension on to Wells Hall. Until now I didn't know where they were planning to rebuild.
I would have hoped for the location to be closer to Grand River, but at least they are not thinking about building it off of Service Road. -
Thanks for the images. I like how the building is at a different angle than the rest of the surrounding angles. I'd like to see MSU start putting green roofs on their new buildings though (I'm crossing my fingers).
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- CommentAuthormindbender
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2010
Wow, I really had to wrap my mind around that one. Looks like they'll probably be restructuring the lecture halls too, if that rear render is any indication. -
They'll most likely have to tear down the lecture halls that are in the B section of Wells Hall since they likely weren't designed to have such a heavy building on top of them :)
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I'm not sure if these have been posted before or not, but I noticed them on the MSU construction page:
Bailey Hall renovation.jpg)
Bailey Hall
Cyclotron Offices Phase 2
Cyclotron Offices
Also, I had't see any renderings of the Plant Sciences expansion until now, it is now under construction.
Plant Sciences expansion.jpg)
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Thanks for the pictures. Is it me or does it look like they are going to try to make the new Plant Sciences addition have an ivy look from the beginning?
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Yeah, I was trying to tell what that was myself. It does look sorta like ivy or something in the renderings, I wonder what it will look like when finished.
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- CommentAuthormindbender
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2010 edited
Could just be green brick.
Edit: Maybe not, I see what you mean now. I was just looking at the last picture.
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