Where some people see grass, i see esplanades. Bw3 will be closer to campus.

I'm willing to pay for this green as long as they stop the "improvements" the are making to bowman and satterfield.  I'll take some pics tomorrow, but they are ruining already ugly buildings with updates that history will not be kind to.

Where some people see grass, i see esplanades. Bw3 will be closer to campus.

Majority of students I talk to hate this idea because this is one reason why we get fees like our new one. The way they see it is that it will be underutilized and go to waste because the other green space is underutilized so what makes this such an attraction.

this is different.  The other places are fields. This is a meeting place in the center of campus.  Do we need a reminder of what Risman Plaza looked like two years ago?

 

 

More people definitely hang out there now.  Remember the bus shack(stop)?   

 

Point being is the center of campus needs to be aesthetically pleasing.  and I am in favor of this.

Possibly the most UNEXCITING project I've seen in a while...all it is is more grass. The upsetting part is they are raising tuition/adding stupid fees for stuff like this

 

Yes, I really don't understand the need for this project.

Do we need a reminder of what Risman Plaza looked like two years ago?

 

 

 

Thanks for the reminder. I could easily picture a horde of C.H.U.D.S. or even Sleestaks swarming out of that terrible building.

 

Home of the Sleestaks:

 

 

 

Do we need a reminder of what Risman Plaza looked like two years ago?

 

 

 

Thanks for the reminder. I could easily picture a horde of C.H.U.D.S. or even Sleestaks swarming out of that terrible building.

 

Home of the Sleestaks:

 

 

 

 

Nice job! Those Sleestaks scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Love those crystal eyes though!

Do we need a reminder of what Risman Plaza looked like two years ago?

 

 

 

Thanks for the reminder. I could easily picture a horde of C.H.U.D.S. or even Sleestaks swarming out of that terrible building.

 

Home of the Sleestaks:

 

 

 

 

Nice job! Those Sleestaks scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Love those crystal eyes though!

 

Woah, I think you've hit on something deeper...isn't KSU known for their liquid CRYSTAL research?

 

It all makes sense now ha ha.

 

Woah, I think you've hit on something deeper...isn't KSU known for their liquid CRYSTAL research?

 

It all makes sense now ha ha.

 

I was thinking the same thing as I typed it. Hey, whatever it takes to keep this thread on topic!

Kent State makes bigger venture into Summit County

 

By Carol Biliczky

Beacon Journal staff writer

Published: August 28, 2012 - 09:33 PM | Updated: August 29, 2012 - 08:15 AM

 

Students seem to be giving a thumbs-up to Kent State’s new Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg.

 

Only three days into the start of fall semester, enrollment there has grown about 16 percent, to 900 students, over the same time last year.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/kent-state-makes-bigger-venture-into-summit-county-1.330218

"and shower facilities for students who ride bikes."

 

Nice

 

I was wondering what that was earlier this year. Headline is kinda odd since the location and the name obviously isn't a play specifically for Summit County, but whatever.

This is getting passed around like hotcakes. I'm not sure where it orginates from, but the CUDC actually posted it on facebook. So I assume its fine to post here.

 

 

Below is the list of architectural teams that submitted for the Kent State CAED building:

 

 

Very stiff competition. I could narrow it to about 10 teams, but not much further than that.

 

Kent State unveils details of mammoth building plan

 

By Carol Biliczky

Beacon Journal staff writer

 

As for Kent State, the big winner — at least in terms of the impact on a sole academic program — is the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

 

Three architecture programs housed in Taylor Hall and elsewhere will get a $40 million headquarters south of the new esplanade extension.

Dean Doug Steidl said the fire alarm, electrical and other systems will be exposed in some parts of the new facility as instruction tools. With 120,000 square feet, 50 percent more than it has now, the program for the first time will have room for research.

 

About 825 students are enrolled in the college’s architecture, urban design, interior design and architectural studies programs, Steidl said.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/kent-state-unveils-details-of-mammoth-building-plan-1.330600

Very stiff competition. I could narrow it to about 10 teams, but not much further than that.

 

I thought I subscribed to this thread, but apparently not.

 

Who would you pick?

 

Has there been any news on who has been short-listed, yet?

Subscribe to a thread? No comprendo.

 

Glad to see they're putting this $40 million building between downtown and the campus to link 'em up better. Anyone got any site plans for this building?

^I thought I clicked on the "notify" button.  Now that I've made an actual post, it says "unnotify."

Very stiff competition. I could narrow it to about 10 teams, but not much further than that.

 

I thought I subscribed to this thread, but apparently not.

 

Who would you pick?

 

Has there been any news on who has been short-listed, yet?

 

Allied Works/Payto

BSHM/Gwathemy Siegel <- not a huge fan, but would deliver a project most would like

Bialosky/ARO

BCJ/sol/Harris Day

Bostwick/BIG

Moody/Predock

Fleishcman/PSC

Bowen/Weiss Manfredi

TECHNE/ShoP

Collaborative/Miller Hull

WRL

 

 

Only reason I didn't add NADDA is b/c they don't have a local firm.

No shortlist yet.

^Thanks for the reply.

 

Not a fan of DesignLAB, huh?  (I work for Olsavsky Jaminet ;) )

^Thanks for the reply.

 

Not a fan of DesignLAB, huh?  (I work for Olsavsky Jaminet ;) )

 

Ha, I looked at their website and liked some of their work. I'm just not too familiar with them.

Architectural school looking for architects :)

 

Architects on a star-studded list are vying to design the new Kent State University architecture and environmental design building.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2012/10/a_star-studded_list_of_archite.html#incart_river_default

 

KSU CAED Shortlist:

 

Bialosky +Partners Architects, LLC / Architecture Research Office

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson / SoL Harris Day Architects

KZF Design / Morphosis

NBBJ LLC

Richard L. Bowen + Associates, Inc. / Weiss/ Manfredi

The Collaborative Inc. / Miller Hull Partnership, LLC

Westlake Reed Leskosky, Ltd.

WTW Architects, Inc. / Overland Partners Architects

 

http://www.kent.edu/universityarchitect/projects/currentprojects.cfm

Kent State readies museum for opening

 

By Carol Biliczky

Beacon Journal staff writer

Published: October 15, 2012 - 11:37 PM

 

Step inside a sleek museum at Kent State and you’ll see everything from a freshman beanie to a poster with 1969’s draft lottery numbers to graphic photos of wounded GIs.

 

This is the university’s newest record of the world surrounding the antiwar protests of May 4, 1970, in which four students were killed and nine wounded.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/kent-state-readies-museum-for-opening-1.342343

 

a poster with 1969’s draft lottery numbers

 

 

Wonder how many kids will ask "why did they issue a draft version of the lottery numbers? Wouldn't that make it unfairly easy to win the Powerball?" :o

 

Do kids today know what the draft is? Or that there was a lottery back then that few people wanted to "win"?

 

Hopefully this museum will educate about these things.

I had an opportunity to tour the museum about a month or so ago. It is very well done (visually interesting, interactive, and generally unbiased) and particularily moving.

It's coming along and is almost done...the fencing is down

Those lights are hideous.

Those lights are hideous.

I think the entire project is boring, dull, an uninspiring and the money for it could have been used wiser.

Hi all - I went back to Kent this weekend for an all-years Theater Kent alumni reunion. We got to see all the new building that has been done on the outside and inside of the Music & Speech building, which will not be called music and speech anymore after 2012, it's going to be the KSU Center for the Performing Arts or something like that.

 

As I am not an arch. person I'm not sure I can tell you anything that would be really satisfying but I will try. Basically they have built a big, overly brightly lit lobby onto the front of the building that stretches down past the original opening to include the entrance to a new, student theater space that was built for student productions. The student production space is really fantastic from a performer's standpoint, much better than the dank, worthless black box space (B005) we were relegated to when I was a student years ago. It looked to seat about 150 and even had a 2nd level to play with if you wanted to use that in your production, and it was a good sized space for student productions. I thought the lobby was just atrocious. I think the design is really ugly and the lighting was brighter than a hospital OR.

 

They have re-done and repurposed a lot of the classrooms and moved things around inside. The most tragic of these being the reduction of the green room space (waiting area for actors) to the size of a small closet, when before it was a huge room that could easily hold 50 people (we had over 40 in one production I was in) with couches and a stove and fridge. Now there is room for one couch and one chair and it was so narrow you couldn't stand three-deep in it. But they now have dressing rooms, which we never had before, so perhaps that's where the actors wait. As we were there to see a show after the building tour, we didn't get to see the dressing rooms.

 

The classrooms on the lower level where our old student theater was and where we took acting are now "labs" for the scenic design/tech people, incluing a welding lab, and on the 2nd floor was a much-needed lighting lab where you can actually practice rigging and focusing various types of theatrical lights in a room the size of a classroom, and work the box with associated switches so you'll know how it works in the real theater space.

 

School of Dance is now officially combined with Theater so there were some dance studios built where there wasn't anything I can recall before except some plain classrooms.

Finalists for the Architecture Building narrowed down to four:

 

Bialosky + Partners Architects (NY and Cleveland), in association with Architecture Research Office (NY)

Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc. (Cleveland), in association with Weiss/Manfredi (NY)

The Collaborative Inc. (Toledo, Ohio), in association with the Miller Hull Partnership (Seattle)

Westlake Reed Leskosky (Cleveland, Phoenix, Washington, NY and LA)

 

Winner expected to be announced in February.

 

http://www.archdaily.com/295498/shortlist-announced-for-kent-states-new-architecture-building/

 

Finalists for the Architecture Building narrowed down to four:

 

Bialosky + Partners Architects (NY and Cleveland), in association with Architecture Research Office (NY)

Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc. (Cleveland), in association with Weiss/Manfredi (NY)

The Collaborative Inc. (Toledo, Ohio), in association with the Miller Hull Partnership (Seattle)

Westlake Reed Leskosky (Cleveland, Phoenix, Washington, NY and LA)

 

Winner expected to be announced in February.

 

http://www.archdaily.com/295498/shortlist-announced-for-kent-states-new-architecture-building/

 

 

Nice so they knocked out:

 

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson / SoL Harris Day Architects

KZF Design / Morphosis

NBBJ LLC

WTW Architects, Inc. / Overland Partners Architects

 

Very surprised about BCJ being out, that was a good team.

All of the others I completely agree with. Going to be a nice project.

 

 

Kent State Hotel Rooms, Banquet Center in Demand

 

Calls coming in for overnight stays, conference center use at new hotel under construction downtown

 

By Matt Fredmonsky

January 7, 2013

 

It has no doors or windows yet, but already the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center is generating interest in its 94 rooms and multiple conference areas.

 

The new hotel is under construction in downtown Kent and isn't set to open until some time in June.

 

But that's not stopping local business people and Kent State alumni from booking early to be among the first to patronize the new hotel.

 

http://kent.patch.com/articles/kent-state-hotel-rooms-banquet-center-in-demand

 

The four finalists will present their proposals tonight and will be webcast live at 7pm...

 

Live Webcast: Kent State Offers First Look at Proposed Designs for New Architecture Building

 

The four finalists in the competition to design the new building for Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design will present their design concepts at a public presentation Thursday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place on campus in the University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall, located at 650 Hilltop Drive in Kent. 

 

http://www.kent.edu/news/newsdetail.cfm?newsitem=2A689970-A1C4-96A8-69311424D0106D53

 

Webcast link: https://ksutube.kent.edu/watchlive.php?playthis=5049

 

Packed house views competition for new Kent State building (with poll)

 

By Thomas Gallick | Staff Writer Published: January 18, 2013 4:00AM

 

Students, faculty and community members filled Cartwright Hall with excited, yet academic debate Thursday night after four potential designs for the new Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design building were unveiled following an international contest.

 

That reaction was fitting, considering Kent State officials wanted the process to act as an educational opportunity for architecture students and local residents.

 

Four finalists presented their designs for the estimated $40 million project, which will be located between South Lincoln and South Willow streets on the school’s Esplanade walkway, to a crowd of about 800.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/news%20local/2013/01/18/packed-house-views-competition-for-new-ksu-building.modal

 

Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc. (Cleveland), in association with Weiss/Manfredi (NY)

 

 

Bialosky + Partners Architects (NY and Cleveland), in association with Architecture Research Office (NY)

 

 

Westlake Reed Leskosky (Cleveland, Phoenix, Washington, NY and LA)

 

 

The Collaborative Inc. (Toledo, Ohio), in association with the Miller Hull Partnership (Seattle)

 

^ Thanks for posting.  I've been searching for any kind of write-up.  However, try removing the .modal from the end of the link.  It lets you see larger renderings that way.

^ Thanks for posting.  I've been searching for any kind of write-up.  However, try removing the .modal from the end of the link.  It lets you see larger renderings that way.

 

Thanks, I changed the images.

 

 

Four teams unveil concepts in competition to design $40 million architecture school at KSU

Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

on January 18, 2013 at 11:15 AM, updated January 18, 2013 at 12:36 PM

 

For architects, students and aficionados of design, Kent State University was one place to be in Northeast Ohio Thursday night as four finalist teams presented proposals in a competition to design the new KSU College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

 

A capacity crowd filled the main level and balconies of the 900-seat Cartwright Hall on campus to watch two hours of presentations in which the four contending teams with members from across the U.S. made consecutive 20-minute presentations with short breaks between.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2013/01/four_teams_unveil_concepts_in.html#comments

Between the first and third one honestly...

I like all but the third, which has too few windows and too bunker-ish. Either way, I'm glad to see the KSU is expanding toward downtown. It has been expanding away from it ever since its founding.

I think the fourth one fits in the most with Kent.  Windowy option two is nice also.

Link to the presentation highlights....

From the NY TIMES today:

 

A Partnership Seeks to Transform Kent State and Kent

By KEITH SCHNEIDER

Published: February 5, 2013

 

KENT, Ohio — Though it is home to the second largest campus in Ohio’s state university system by enrollment, this small Cuyahoga River city spent much of the last four decades neglecting, if not deliberately retreating from, its history as a college town and its place in the annals of the Vietnam War era.

 

But a $110 million mixed-use development that is under construction at the city’s center is remedying that.

 

The project — a melding of more than 500,000 square feet of office, retail, residential and public spaces — is unfolding across a four-block, four-acre section of downtown. City and university leaders said the development, the largest downtown construction project in Kent’s 208-year history, will outfit the city with new destinations that suit contemporary lifestyles and spending patterns.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/realestate/commercial/development-aims-to-bring-kent-state-and-its-city-closer.html

KSU’s esplanade to be named for Lefton

 

By Mary Ann Ferguson-Rich

Special to the Beacon Journal

Published: October 5, 2013 - 09:42 PM | Updated: October 7, 2013 - 10:36 AM

 

KENT: Town and gown are now officially connected in the city of Kent.

 

In the midst of rain showers, the University Esplanade extension was formally opened at a ceremony held at the arch near Main and Willow Streets on Friday.

 

The $3.3 million dollar project connects the Kent State University campus with downtown.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/ksu-s-esplanade-to-be-named-for-lefton-1.434575

Two things to note: The architecture building will now be 4 stories and will be completed in July 2016, and the Technology program is getting a new building and is scheduled to open in 2014.

Two things to note: The architecture building will now be 4 stories and will be completed in July 2016, and the Technology program is getting a new building and is scheduled to open in 2014.

 

Here's a couple of press releases -- from last summer and then from last week.......

 

http://www.kent.edu/news/news-detail.cfm?newsitem=C6C1C369-CE40-9E87-6770FE34C0DD2185

 

Kent State Approves Work to Begin on New Building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology

Posted Aug. 28, 2013

 

Last September, the Kent State University Board of Trustees approved construction of new facility for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, as a prioritized project within the “Foundations of Excellence: Building the Future” initiative. Since that time the programming, schematic and development design was completed and the final design and budget were prepared.




At a special meeting held Aug. 27, the Kent State Board of Trustees Finance and Administration Committee authorized a resolution that will permit the issuance of contracts and the beginning of construction on the building’s foundation. The committee action, passed by a unanimous vote, also caps the cost of the project at $17,750,000.

 

The request for the expedited approval was made in order to meet the time-sensitive schedule associated with the installation of foundations and other underground work prior to the onset of winter weather. This is a critical first project in a sequence of relocations enabling the overall "Foundations of Excellence" program. 


 

During the committee meeting Kent State President Lester A. Lefton said he was excited that the project was moving forward and that steel would be in the ground soon.


 

The proposed building is approximately 55,200 gross square feet and will include air traffic control training rooms in a lower level, classrooms and shop areas on the first floor, and faculty offices and classrooms on the second floor. Approximately 6,500 square feet of the building will be shelled for future completion.

 

Kent State’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology has experienced near double-digit growth in recent years, with nearly 1,000 students. The college offers a Bachelor of Science degree in four areas: aeronautics, applied engineering, technology and construction management.

 

For more information on Kent State’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, visit www.kent.edu/caest.

 

For more information about Kent State’s “Foundations of Excellence” initiative, visit www.kent.edu/foundations.

 

(CONSTRUCTION WEBCAM!) http://webcampub.multivista.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=aPublicWebcam.embed&WebcamPublicEmbedUID=FDC4A651-922C-45EB-8A86-6447DD6A58E8&width=&height

 

# # #

 

 

Media Contacts:

Eric Mansfield, [email protected], 330-672-2797

Emily Vincent, [email protected], 330-672-8595

 

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http://www.kent.edu/news/news-detail.cfm?newsitem=8CEE428B-DFB7-1B62-764BB235276DF4B4

 

Design Architects of Kent State’s New Architecture Building Present Update on Jan. 16

Posted Jan. 13, 2014

 

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of WEISS/MANFREDI, the design architects of Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design new facility, will be on the Kent Campus to present an update on the design evolution of the building. The presentation takes place Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. in University Auditorium at Cartwright Hall. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, go to http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e8r1hd4phpzujh0l/start.

 

The original building design was selected through a competition conducted in 2013 which resulted in the architect selection – WEISS/MANFREDI, lead designer, and Richard L. Bowen & Associates, architect of record – and the determination of the building concept to be located along the Lester A. Lefton Esplanade between South Lincoln and Willow streets. The building will physically and metaphorically represent the connection between the city of Kent and the university campus.

 

The focus of the presentation will outline the evolution of a design, detailing how multiple sources of input, including programmatic, community context, financial parameters and reviews by numerous oversight groups, actually evolved the facility to be more functional, efficient, sustainable and economical without losing the original concept. Participants will include representatives of the design architect, the architect of record, the university architect, the user and the construction manager.

 

“The design architects at WEISS/MANFREDI have listened to many inputs from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Office of the University Architect, the university’s Joint Project Oversight Committee, which is a joint-board administration committee, the construction manager and the community,” said Douglas Steidl, dean of Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design. “They have reviewed all program requirements, including the addition of the spaces to be used by the Construction Management program. Through their creative design process, they have been able to reduce the size of the building through efficiencies in circulation, reduced the height by a story, and amazingly did not lose the character or concept of the initial competition design. This developed schematic design improves upon the initial competition building.

 

“This is an ongoing design process which does not end until the construction is complete, therefore revisions and enhancements should be expected as we all strive to construct the best facility possible,” Steidl added.

 

“We continue to be impressed with the WEISS/MANFREDI team,” said Michael Bruder, executive director of facilities planning and design in Kent State’s Office of the University Architect. “They continually work to satisfy our programmatic needs while providing an iconic gateway building for the campus.”

 

The new architecture and environmental design building is part of the university’s campus transformation, called “Foundations of Excellence: Building the Future,” which involves the construction of new buildings, facility upgrades and establishment of dynamic, new spaces. The goal of this initiative is to create the most outstanding academic experience for students, faculty, staff, alumni and the greater community enriched by the university.

 

Currently, these signature programs are housed in three separate structures. The new building will unite the college under one roof. The university plans to break ground for the building this fall.

 

For more information about WEISS/MANFREDI of New York, visit www.weissmanfredi.com.

 

For more information about Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, visit www.kent.edu/caed. (RENDERINGS!)

 

For more information about Kent State’s “Foundations of Excellence” initiative, visit www.kent.edu/foundations.

 

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Media Contacts:

Douglas Steidl, [email protected], 330-672-2917

Emily Vincent, [email protected], 330-672-8595

Here is the rendering of the new Kent State Aeronautics and Technology building under construction. 

 

Thanks! Is that wall actually sloped or the result of the scan?

Thanks! Is that wall actually sloped or the result of the scan?

That's actually a banner of the building hanging off of the gate. The building just has simple square and rectangular shapes.

 

KSU trustees approve increase for room and board, new construction on campus

 

Published: March 12, 2014 - 09:51 PM

 

Kent State University trustees on Wednesday:

 

• Approved an overall increase of 3.9 percent in the standard, undergraduate double room and board rates for the fall semester.

 

• Approved a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the College of Podiatric Medicine, based in Independence, for the coming year.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/ksu-trustees-approve-increase-for-room-and-board-new-construction-on-campus-1.472801

 

The latest plans for Kent State University's new architecture school building show a project still on track for excellence (slideshow)

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As the abundance of mediocre buildings in Cleveland and many other cities shows, it's really hard to produce great architecture. On the other hand, it's very easy to screw up at any point in a project, from selection of an architect to initial conception, detailed design and construction.

 

Despite all these potential traps, Kent State University looks still very much on track to produce a 21st-century landmark in its new $43 million building for its College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2014/05/the_latest_renderings_for_kent.html

More new buildings are coming to Kent State campus — http://t.co/x7hTGnDaDL

More new buildings are coming to Kent State campus — http://t.co/x7hTGnDaDL

 

Great, this will blend seamlessly with the new College of Architecture right next to it.

 

:shoot: :shoot: