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Well, it is located on the corner or POST OAK Place and POST OAK Parkway, and 100 yards from POST OAK Park.

A&M just needs to build more dorms on-campus so less people would have to drive from off-campus.

Very nice! Although it is sad to see one of my most visited buildings change so much, this will be a great upgrade for the University.

I hope they eliminate some of that sprawl and allow it to be more of a walkable campus like the Main Campus. Let's not make this another West Campus design.

Why does every thread have to turn into a suburb vs city bash Well, it is under design, so that's a start.

http://209.189.226.235/stories/061707/am_20070617006.php

Yeah, it looks better in the close up renderings than in the far away renderings. Of course, they are all just renderings, so I'll save my judgment until I see the real thing completed next year.

True. PV needs to do some marketing to sell the school better.

That's actually a different building that the thread got on a tangent to. But, of course the building shown will be the largest on campus only to be triumphed by this $100 million engineering building a few years after.

Yeah, I know it won't. But, I've always thought it was kind of strange that two of the 11 (or 13) A&M system schools don't have the words "Texas A&M" in their name. Texas A&M University Texas A&M University at Galveston Texas A&M University at Qatar Texas A&M University

I always thought they should change the name to Texas A&M - Prairie View, but I don't think that will ever happen. I guess the building looks a little better from other angles:

Athletics funding is separate from academic funding.

Interesting. Were their plans to match the architecture of the Academic Building? Were they going to put a building on each side or just one big one one side? Or was anything that specific ever discussed? The new location will be better in keeping everything together. I liked the idea presented in the campus master plan where parking garages with an facade matching the Administration building flanked it's sides. Maybe they will still do that one day. I just hope a lot of thought goes into the architecture of such a large building, I'm still not sure what to think of this one:

It'll be the first major building east of Bizzell, so it'll look out of place - but where else could you put it? The engineering area is full with the exception of the area between TTI and Zachry, the land north of Zachry, and the land east of CE. All of those areas are too small for a building of this magnitude now that the campus master plan limits buildings to 4 stories. Those "Alternative Locations" are absolutely horrible though. The latest I've heard was that they would build parking garages that would have the same architecture as the Jack K. Williams Administration Building in those spots. They should stick with that idea. Notice though, that the description of the location in the article doesn't match up with the picture they show (picture shows across from Wisenbaker, not Zachry). I wonder which one is correct.

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