Mean Purple
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baylol put most of their admin in one building. the "tower of power" they like to call it. look how that turned out.
TCU Construction Updates
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InstaFrog
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Land Frog
Darn baylor!
TCUdirtbag
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Rendering of new admin building
Departments moving to the administration building include the Chancellor’s Office, Provost’s Office, University Advancement, Financial Services, Financial Aid, Marketing & Communication, the Registrar, the Career Center, Title IX Office and Student Affairs, as well as the Student Center.
Most notably this opens up essentially all of Sadler for the Honors College (meaning Scharbauer offers more room to AddRan). Some of Jarvis will open up, but I’m not sure if the student affairs offices will go, too, possibly opening Jarvis for classroom or faculty office use? The plan may also move some offices currently in the BLUJ, which could open up space for the planned BLUU addition/renovations.
Departments moving to the administration building include the Chancellor’s Office, Provost’s Office, University Advancement, Financial Services, Financial Aid, Marketing & Communication, the Registrar, the Career Center, Title IX Office and Student Affairs, as well as the Student Center.
Most notably this opens up essentially all of Sadler for the Honors College (meaning Scharbauer offers more room to AddRan). Some of Jarvis will open up, but I’m not sure if the student affairs offices will go, too, possibly opening Jarvis for classroom or faculty office use? The plan may also move some offices currently in the BLUJ, which could open up space for the planned BLUU addition/renovations.
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Rendering of new admin building
Departments moving to the administration building include the Chancellor’s Office, Provost’s Office, University Advancement, Financial Services, Financial Aid, Marketing & Communication, the Registrar, the Career Center, Title IX Office and Student Affairs, as well as the Student Center.
Most notably this opens up essentially all of Sadler for the Honors College (meaning Scharbauer offers more room to AddRan). Some of Jarvis will open up, but I’m not sure if the student affairs offices will go, too, possibly opening Jarvis for classroom or faculty office use? The plan may also move some offices currently in the BLUJ, which could open up space for the planned BLUU addition/renovations.
Where is this building going to be located?
LeagueCityFrog
Active Member
is that smaller dome a wishing well like the one at UNC Chapel Hill? I think both domes in these pictures should be purple or a blend of purple and white mosaic. Make them pop with our school's colors.
Big Frog II
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What about that little house on Berry that is going to be right in front of it? Has the owner finally agreed to sell?
ticketfrog123
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If I’m remembering the right house, they’re sooner fans & season ticket holders. Probably not worth the expense to buy them out considering the damage it’ll do to the +4 system
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
It looks like it’s on the west side south of the chapel if that is Robert Carr in the background.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
Looks like right next to the Rec Center.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
WhiteHispanicFrog
Curmudgeon
Couple pics I took this morning of the new business building construction. View is looking from Bass Building.
HToady
Full Member
Saw the presentation on this. Not real thrilled with Berry Street being the main entrance to the University. I guess they should rename University Drive to "Side Street". Plus they're going to put a traffic light at the Main Entrance, but not at Rogers, so with people leaving campus parking and trying to avoid the intersection at Berry and University, plus McDonalds, plus the bank and Kroger traffic from the other side, it will definitely be a street to avoid...New TCU Administration Building could break ground in as little as 11 months. Sadler would be renovated to house he Honors College, allowing AddRan to expand in Scharbauer.
LeagueCityFrog
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The conceptual drawing makes it appears that the one single house is hanging tough and the new building will face it on Berry Street. I'm sure that will look great.....Not!
LeagueCityFrog
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Upon further review, once that house on Berry Street sells it looks like TCU can build an additional wing to that new administrative building to even it out and fully wrap the building around an epic water fountain circle drive.
flyfishingfrog
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So out of curiosity where exactly do you consider the main entrance to the university today and how is a new admin building changing that?
It’s not like our current one has a circle drive off university...
HToady
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So apparently, you already know where it is....
If a circle drive constitutes "an entrance", then it seems it would be a lot cheaper to build one at Sadler Hall, then build a new building....that's just me though...
flyfishingfrog
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my point is that having the administration building there doesn't make it the main entrance to TCU anymore than saying where Sadler sits now makes it the entrance to TCU - the new design will make that road the driveway to get to where you park for the administration building and that is pretty much it.
Otherwise our current entrance is either of a combination of Cantey and North or Bellaire and South since that is where you "drive and park" to get to Sadler. No one parks on University and walks into Sadler hall from the direction that you are referring to as the entrance to the university - which is really right in the center of campus anyway and will still be there so people can walk past it on there way to wherever.
So I don't see your point at all...
