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University of Pennsylvania Plans New Jewish Student Center
The University of Pennsylvania has selected construction management firm R.M. Shoemaker Co. of West Conshohocken, Pa., to build Steinhardt Hall, the new Hillel Jewish Student Life Center on the campus of the University. Groundbreaking was scheduled for October 2001. The three-story, 35,000-sf facility will provide a new academic, cultural, and religious complex for the more than 6,000 Jewish students at the University. It will contain a kosher kitchen and 386-seat kosher dining room, a 320-seat auditorium, and a 174-seat Beit Midrash.
University of Pennsylvania Plans Riverview Campus
The University of Pennsylvania Riverview Campus master plan was completed in April 2001 by Cambridge, Mass.-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates. The 20-acre Philadelphia Civic Center site will be transformed into a mixed-use healthcare and research center serving the needs of the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.
UC San Francisco Builds New Mission Bay Campus
The University of California, San Francisco's new 43-acre research campus at Mission Bay is under construction. Phase one includes a 385,000-sf research building; a 165,000-sf center for human genetics, developmental biology, and developmental neuroscience; and a campus community center sporting food courts, a health club and pool, and a library'all scheduled to open by 2003. The developer of the huge project is Catellus.
Northern Kentucky University Building New Natural Science Facility
Northern Kentucky University’s new Natural Science Building is under construction, with completion scheduled for fall 2002. HERA, Inc., of St. Louis, has provided lab planning and design services for the four-story facility, which was designed by Omni Architects of Lexington, Ky. The building will function as a collaborative learning center for the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, and geology. It will feature adaptable lab spaces and a mix of department labs and offices on each floor.
MIT Opens New Learning Labs for Complex Systems
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has new Learning Laboratories for complex systems. Designed by Cambridge Seven Associates, the renovated and expanded 50,000-sf historic Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (Building 33) now provides highly flexible and open space for student/faculty team work on projects of varying size and complexity. The 6,000-sf three-story Hangar supports work on unusually large-sized aerospace assignments and independent student projects. William A.