arche_757 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 So they moved away from... the proposed field house/gymnasium in that location? Or was I mistaken that the east grandstands were to be partially replaced by that proposed field house/gymnasium at some point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 (edited) So they moved away from... the proposed field house/gymnasium in that location? Or was I mistaken that the east grandstands were to be partially replaced by that proposed field house/gymnasium at some point?The previous plan was to tear out and renovate the south endzone facilities. The plan that is moving forward is to do the building on the north, so it opens on both the field and the practice facility. I don't think there was ever a plan to include a field house/gymnasium. Tudor Fieldhouse had a $23mm makeover in 2007. Edited January 23, 2015 by lokithebubba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Actually the first plan WAS to construct on the north side but because half the campus electricity flows through the switchgear room located just outside the north side wall they shifted to a plan involving the south side. Now they are back to their original plan. I guess because they found the half million dollars to reroute the electricity. I'm assuming the existing Rice locker room will now become the visitors room, which would be a slight improvement other the existing visitors locker room which looks like a 50 year old middle school locker room. That's one reason marquee teams won't play at Rice stadium. It is embarrassingly small and run down. Love the photo renderings of a completely full stadium. Rice hasn't seen that many people for a football game since the 50's. Still, I'm glad to see they are moving on with this. Even though Rice football doesn't attract a crowd like they once did they deserve better. All the other sport facilities on campus have seen major upgrades in the last 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 An academic and research focused college is going to spend $30m on a weightlifting facility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 An academic and research focused college is going to spend $30m on a weightlifting facility? They are improving in football and lets remember that they are one of the traditional powers in baseball. They aren't going to be like the bigger sports focused schools, but they do have good sports programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 And they are one of the few schools in the state with student athletes that actually attend classes and walk away with real degrees. Having a good athletic program at Rice does not take away from the academic side. A good balance between nerds and jocks is important. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 If Rice has the money, and I think they do, let them at it. It is a private school after all and I don't think the University will let its academic reputation suffer. Alumni loyalty for Rice is second only to that of Texas A&M - maybe even tied with A&M depending on how it is measured. I did not attend Rice, nor has anyone in my family, but I have often enjoyed watching football and baseball games there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 First signs of the coming project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Tarp is off the north endzone in preparation. https://twitter.com/Chronicle_Owls/status/563834154865811457/photo/1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidRich Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 http://construction.rice.edu/PattersonSportsPerformanceCenter/Its a project now on the Rice Construction website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Construction fence up as of yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Construction cam http://www.riceowls.com/ot/bpspc-construction-cam.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placoors Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Plan in works to "fully restore" Rice Stadium: http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2015/03/rice-ad-plan-in-works-to-fully-restore-rice-stadium/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Plan in works to "fully restore" Rice Stadium: http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2015/03/rice-ad-plan-in-works-to-fully-restore-rice-stadium/Restore it to what? It hasn't changed in 60 years. Go back to wood bleachers instead of metal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 just take the upper decks down....done.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I'm enjoying watching the construction cam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's actual video. cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 just take the upper decks down....done.... If they could take down just the upper east it would be awesome. The front of the upper west is already a great place to watch football. Without the east the view of the campus and med center would be awesome. Alas, I don't think it's possible to take it off easily. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithebubba Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) I was able to ride into the stadium today. Edited May 16, 2015 by lokithebubba 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted July 14, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2015 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/07/rice-arts-center-selects-guggenheim-leader-as-new.html http://www.mmaltzan.com/projects/rice-university-moody-center-for-the-arts/ Rice University has appointed Alison Weaverexecutive director of the Moody Center for the Arts effective Sept. 1.A former director at the well-known Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and a Houston native, Weaver will now oversee the $30 million, 50,000-square-foot art center that will include lecture and studio classrooms, a theater venue and gallery space on Rice’s campus. It is slated to open in the fall of 2016. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 This will look odd on campus. Any one else agree? Also - where do they plan on putting it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Not everything needs to match, but I do agree. Unlike the Brochstein Pavilion, this thing is going to look odd, especially given the location (right next to Reckling Park across from the Shepherd School of Music). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talltexan83 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I like that it can also function as an informal extension of the Museum District less than a mile away. just wait until they put in that new Rice Opera House across the street from this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 aesthetically brilliant and beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 not digging the design... looks haphazardly put together. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 *ahem*As I said EARLIERThis that **** I do like... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 If art every falls out of popularity, it would make a great pre-school. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 *ahem*As I said EARLIERThis that **** I do like..."ahem" i concur! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I like it, but agree that it will seem out of place. I will say that I had just assumed they were making a larger surface parking lot on this space (as crazy as that seemed to me), so this is at least better than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 This is going to be nice. It's about time art majors got their own unique place at Rice. Pretty much everything Rice has built in the last ten years looks out of place. Brochstein Pavilion, Brockman Hall, the Rec center, the new Continuing Studies school. But in the long run they function well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 The irony is that, to most people, Rice has probably the most beautiful campus in all of Texas. But to today's average art junkie, there is nothing beautiful or inspiring about Byzantine-derived architecture. So the art museum must be a radical departure from the existing beautiful campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 The irony is that, to most people, Rice has probably the most beautiful campus in all of Texas. But to today's average art junkie, there is nothing beautiful or inspiring about Byzantine-derived architecture. So the art museum must be a radical departure from the existing beautiful campus.SMU's campus is probably better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Not sure it's "better", but SMUs campus is definitely up there with Baylor and Rice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarosurf Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I'm thinking this will look much much better in person. The renderings are pretty basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 well geeeeezzz, the stated budget is only $30mm. you can only get so much for that amount. i think that for this particular budget... this design is remarkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Not sure it's "better", but SMUs campus is definitely up there with Baylor and Rice. Don't overlook Trinity University in San Antonio either. It is a very nice melding of regional and Modern architecture. As I said about the new Rice Field House earlier this year, the University has the money and the will to experiment and do things on a scale one may think more grand than would be normal for an institution of its size. There you have it. While most of the newer buildings on campus push the envelope the original quad remains pretty much (with the exception of the Fondren Library) true to William Ward Watkin's original intent. These newer buildings on campus don't necessarily have to be "commercially successful" so this is probably the most appropriate venue to experiment with architecture. Think of some of the "show cars" from the opulent auto shows of the 1950. Some where very well received and pointed to the style of the future and some faded away into history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 MFAH. Menil. Sawyer Yards. The arts just absolutely exploding in this city. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 A thriving city needs a flourishing arts center in order to continue on it's success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 You forgot to put Match in that list. Its going to be an incubator for Midtown and the arts. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 You forgot to put Match in that list. Its going to be an incubator for Midtown and the arts.Guess I was more labeling campuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) MFAH. Menil. Sawyer Yards. The arts just absolutely exploding in this city. You forgot to put Match in that list. Its going to be an incubator for Midtown and the arts. If you include the performing arts, it's even more amazing: Moody Center for the Arts (at Rice U)MFAHMenilSawyer YardsMATCHNew Opera House at RiceSt. Thomas has a new performing arts facility in the worksA.D. Players in UptownMain Street Theater is completing their remodel/upgradeAlley Theater rebuildSugar Land Performing Arts CenterNew HSPVA I feel like I'm still leaving some out. Edited July 27, 2015 by Houston19514 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Question. Will this be directly West of Shepard School of music, replacing the large ashpalt lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithiumaneurysm Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Question. Will this be directly West of Shepard School of music, replacing the large ashpalt lot? No, it will be south of Shepherd in the space between the Center for Continuing Studies and Reckling Park, where the tennis courts used to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 No, it will be south of Shepherd in the space between the Center for Continuing Studies and Reckling Park, where the tennis courts used to be.Right off university blvd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) Question. Will this be directly West of Shepard School of music, replacing the large ashpalt lot? No, it will be south of Shepherd in the space between the Center for Continuing Studies and Reckling Park, where the tennis courts used to be. The site directly west of the Shepherd School is where the new opera theater will be built. Cool Rice University map showing future plans, including the Shepherd School's opera theater and the Moody Center for the Arts Edited July 27, 2015 by Houston19514 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 The site directly west of the Shepherd School is where the new opera theater will be built.Cool Rice University map showing future plans, including the Shepherd School's opera theater and the Moody Center for the ArtsAwesome. I didn't realize the courts were being moved north, hence my confusion. Interesting spot for this building... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 https://twitter.com/MaltzanArch 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Construction will begin soon on a new office building and parking garage south of Allen Center. Kathy Jones, associate vice president for Facilities Engineering and Planning, presented an overview of the project at the Dec. 8 Administrators Forum. The six-story, 66,710-gross-square-foot office building will house up to 295 work spaces, depending on office layouts. The design calls for terra-cotta fins on the exterior of the building’s concrete frame to control the amount of natural light into offices. The building will be located parallel to the road that connects Entrance 3 to College Way/Loop Road. The east side of the office building will attach to a seven-level, 159,500-gross-square-foot parking garage. The garage will accommodate 496 parking spaces – a net gain of 382 spaces after accounting for current parking spaces in Lovett Lot that will be overtaken by the office building and garage. Fig leaf images will be displayed on huge plastic scrims that will attach to the sides of the garage. Starting Dec. 21, parking will no longer be permitted in the Lovett Lot south of Allen Center and the Cohen House. Entrance 3 to the campus at the intersection of Main and Cambridge streets will also be closed. The road between Entrance 3 and College Way will be closed too, except to emergency vehicles. - See more at: http://news.rice.edu/2015/12/11/new-office-building-parking-garage-to-be-constructed/#sthash.TDlV4LRx.dpuf Jones said Entrance 3 will be redone to improve the flow of traffic in that area of campus. While Entrance 3 is closed, the South College parking lot can be accessed only from Entrance 4 on Main Street. The sidewalk from College Way to Entrance 3 will remain open for pedestrians. Jones said the garage is expected to be completed by the beginning of summer 2017; the office building should be completed by the end of summer 2017. During the construction phase, employees who have been parking in the south Lovett Lot will park in other campus lots through arrangements made by the Parking Office. - See more at: http://news.rice.edu/2015/12/11/new-office-building-parking-garage-to-be-constructed/#sthash.TDlV4LRx.dpuf 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Hopefully this will finally get their HR back on campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I saw the crane from a distance so I checked it out yesterday but didn't know what they were building. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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