<p>Hey guys, the university will be submitting a new masterplan to the city this year. The new plan is expected to add about 2 million square feet of additional building space to the campus at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. This is on top of the half billion that university already spent on campus improvements in the last few years. The new master plan is expected to include several new luxury style dorms, a new indoor football/athletic stadium, and several new research and academic buildings. Here are some preliminary sketches that were created by NEU's masterplan architect that I found on their website (be sure to use the scroll button on the bottom of each sketch/design): </p>
<p>The proposed new buildings are in yellow and blue (note: all we need to go through a city approval process with community input). The football /athlectic stadium is the light blue building with the rounded roof towards the backside of campus. The preliminary sketch has 24 new buildings.</p>
<p>Well if you look at the sketch, most of the proposed buildings would be located away from the center of the campus (i.e. not areas that students currently use). You should also keep in mind that it is a ten year master plan. The university would probably only build two to three building per year at most. So to answer your question, the campus will still remain attractive even during the construction.</p>
<p>Yeah, school expansion is nice and everything... but it sucks if your entire campus is under construction for the years you spend there.</p>
<p>Outside campus shots aren't really hard to come by. Everyone takes pictures of buildings, greens, quads, etc... What I am always interested in, is the stuff students will actually deal with. Libraries, labs, computers, classrooms, chairs, desks, ceilings, halls, benches, etc...</p>
<p>It sounds kind of weird, but the environment in which a student learns is much more important that the pretty exterior of a building--don't you think?</p>
<p>Can you find any in-action shots of that type of stuff?</p>
<p>Marino never really gets super crowded (it's huge). It also helps that the athletes have their own separate massive facility across the street (Cabot Center). Students may also use Cabot when the sports teams are not using it. The univeristy also has a separate squash facility on the otherside of campus which has another training room. I will post some pics of the Squash Facility in a minute.</p>
