mkultra25 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 12:06 PM, hindesky said: Cool find of the day is that the Rice Media Center is going to be demolished soon. They held the final film screening there several weeks ago (Eagle Pennell's LAST NIGHT AT THE ALAMO, quite an appropriate choice under the circumstances), followed by an open house the following afternoon for anyone who wanted to pay a visit one last time before the process of prepping the building for demolition began. Inside the projection booth, former students, regulars, and other cinephiles had inscribed their memories on the walls. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The Last Night at the Media Center 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Rich Health & Wellness Center. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Abercrombie Science building. Hanzsen College. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valhalla Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 So fast! i think the fastest construction occurs on university campuses because they have to take advantage of breaks where students are away from school. If only there was a way to apply the same pressure to the rest of developers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Media Center demolition permit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 FE&P Office Renovation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 HVAC Replacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 On 7/10/2021 at 10:20 PM, Highrise Tower said: Media Center demolition permit. Haven't seen any pictures yet, but it was mentioned in Houston Mod's email regarding the Mod of the Month that the Media Center was demolished this week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Harry Hanszen College Sitework/Foundation permit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Building permit for the engineering and science building. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Two tower cranes for the Abercrombie Science building. Digging below grade for the Hanszen College, mock ups have gotten a little bit added to them. Hanszen Magisters house. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Dining Servery Remodel. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Abercrombie Science. Hanszen College. Hanszen Magisters house. Old Media Center demolished. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Renderings for the new Abercrombie Science building. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 from r/houston u/majosaur, Lovett Hall watercolor. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted August 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) From Monday's storm that dumped up to 4" of rain in the Galleria/Tanglewood, West U, Upper Kirby and Montrose area. Credit reddit u/agtritter Edited August 17, 2021 by hindesky 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Abercrombie Science. New murals on the tents. Hanszen Magisters house. Hanszen College and mock ups. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Skidmore Owings & Merril and Scientia Architects are architects for the Abercrombie Science building. https://scientiaarchitects.com/dev/archives/portfolio-item/luna-genetics-2 Hanszen Magiters house and the college. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 29 minutes ago, hindesky said: Skidmore Owings & Merril and Scientia Architects are architects for the Abercrombie Science building. https://scientiaarchitects.com/dev/archives/portfolio-item/luna-genetics-2 I wondered if there was a connection with Rice's Scientia Institute and the long-running lecture series it sponsors, but if there is, it's not readily apparent. https://scientia.rice.edu/ But this isn't Scientia Architects' first project at Rice, either - had to hunt a bit but found this in the background section of the firm's principal architect: Quote Rice University* (Houston, TX) Multiple projects including: Keck Hall Bioengineering & Biochemistry Building renovation/additions; Nanotechnology Research Lab; BioScience Research Collaborative (477,000 SF build out); New Emerging Science & Technology Center (NEST); and MD Anderson Biological Labs renovation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Abercrombie Science. Hanszen College. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Abercrombie. Hanszen College. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 Rice gets $100M grant for future student center, new endowments Brittany Britto, Staff writer Sep. 22, 2021 Rice University has received $100 million from the Moody Foundation to build a new student center on campus and to create endowments that support student opportunity and success. The planned Moody Center for Student Life and Opportunity is intended to become a focal point for the private university and will be designed by Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates, the same architect who designed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. With Rice’s plans to increase the undergraduate student body by 20 percent by fall 2025, the 80,000-square-foot center is expected to have three levels, with ample space for a range of student programming. It will replace the existing Rice Memorial Center, which was built more than 60 years ago to accommodate a fifth of the student population expected over the next four years. The facility will include a multicultural center, a rooftop auditorium, a variety of gathering and event spaces, and a memorial to 10 Navy ROTC students from Rice who died in 1953 when their plane crashed en route to a training mission in Virginia. Some elements of the existing center, including its chapel and the cloisters, will remain. Construction is expected to begin in early 2022 and finish in late 2023. Rice President David Leebron, who plans to step down in June, envisions the center to be a place where students will “broaden their engagements and experiences in ways that will empower their success throughout their lives.” “It will also enable us to both connect more deeply with Houston and with the world,” Leebron said in a written statement. “This will be the epitome of what an inclusive and outward-looking student center should be. It will serve the 21st-century understanding of the essential elements of student education, which go far beyond the classroom experience.” The charitable foundation’s gift will also establish the Moody Fund for Student Opportunity, which will support student programs hosted in the student center and throughout the university. Elle Moody, a Rice alumna and a trustee of both the university and the Galveston-based Moody Foundation, said she believes the gift “will have a profound and lasting effect on the campus and its students.” The foundation’s $100 million gift is one of two of the largest single donations the university has received, matching the $100 million grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation last September to create Rice’s Welch Institute. brittany.britto@chron.com 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Highrise Tower Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Howard Keck Hall Suite 326 office remodel. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 The campus just gets more defined and unified every day. With the completion of the western end of the inner loop around the newly landscaped, Brockman Hall for Opera, the Moody Center for the Arts, the Turrell Skyspace, Autry Court and the new Kraft Hall for Social Science, it has really solidified the southwestern edge of campus. It will be exciting to see how the new student center by Adjaye will fit into the mix, being at the center of the universe. The new murals are a nice addition. I recognize the black and white floral drawing to be by Karin Broker, a longtime professor of Printmaking, Drawing and Dramatic Arts at Rice. She's won numerous awards and has been shown in Houston by McClain gallery. I'm not familiar with the other artists work but both are amazing. I also can't wait for the new Abercrombie Science Laboratory to complete that plaza. Last I wonder what's in store for the northwestern quadrant of intramural fields. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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toxtethogrady Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 On 8/17/2021 at 1:44 PM, hindesky said: From Monday's storm that dumped up to 4" of rain in the Galleria/Tanglewood, West U, Upper Kirby and Montrose area. Credit reddit u/agtritter That's what I call a localized gullywasher... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 Abercrombie Science is using Baker Concrete, talked with a guy I used to see at the Texas Tower all the time. Laying grass around the Hanszen Magister House. Hanszen College. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 New College Dorm Building. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Abercrombie Science building started working on the ground level floor. Hanszen College mass timber building. Media Center construction fencing has come down, I wonder why? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 So Rice is creating a new residential college! Makes sense since the plan is to add 800-1,200 undergraduate students bringing Rice to 4,500-5,000 undergrads. Great move, especially if they can keep the academic profile the same. My dream for the city is to have Rice get to 10,000 or so undergrads and have UH improve to be a top 30-50 public institution. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Actually the Hanszen College rebuild replaces a very old section of Hanszen College but I think it adds more rooms than the previous version. I still think they will have to add more rooms and probably build more colleges to get to the amount they want. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 They are going to add a new, twelfth residential college, in addition to the Hanszen rebuild. It was announced earlier this year but I'm not sure when they plan to have it completed. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Baker Concrete is doing a concrete pour at the Abercrombie Science build. Work continues at the Hanszen College. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Urbannizer Posted November 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2021 https://news.rice.edu/news/2021/rices-new-arts-building-will-be-sarofim-hall-designed-internationally-acclaimed-firm Rice University’s new home for student art will be named Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, and it will be designed by a team helmed by an alumnus with a deep appreciation for the arts at Rice and in Houston. Charles Renfro will lead Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design team, which has been chosen for Sarofim Hall following a national competition. With architecture honoring the legacy of the former Rice Media Center and Art Barn, the new Sarofim Hall will be an inventive take on the prefabricated building, incorporating exhibition areas, labs, studios, shops, faculty offices and other facilities serving as collaboration points for artists across mediums. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Rice Media Center. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidCenturyMoldy Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Am I remembering correctly? Wasn't Charles Renfro the architect who was originally chosen to design the Rice opera house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 40 minutes ago, MidCenturyMoldy said: Am I remembering correctly? Wasn't Charles Renfro the architect who was originally chosen to design the Rice opera house? From an article on the Opera House in 2017... Quote The project had also switched architects over the years. New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro — tapped in 2014 — successfully completed the pre-design stage, but by last year Allan Greenberg Architect LLC had begun on the schematic and design stages of the new building. Allan Greenberg has offices in New York and Alexandria, Virginia. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 The first "glulam" columns going in at the Hanszen College. What is Glulam? Glue-laminated timber (glulam) is a structural engineered wood productcommonly used for beams and columns in residential and commercial applications. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATH Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Isn't this building supposed to be open for the fall 2022 semester? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Permits for the new Moody Center for Student Life and Opportunity. http://www.kendall-heaton.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) According to this old Rice Thresher article the timeline sounds correct, start 1st quarter '22 and completion by fall 2023. "Rice hopes to begin construction on the new student center by the first quarter of 2022. Adjaye Associates, an architecture firm with offices in Accra, Ghana, London and New York, will design Rice’s new student center, which is expected to be complete by fall 2023." https://www.ricethresher.org/article/2020/11/award-winning-architecture-firm-selected-to-design-new-student-center Edited February 15, 2022 by hindesky 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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