<p>I just noticed a Maroon mention that the (massive) new dorm being built south of the midway will absorb all of the houses/students when Shoreland closes.</p>
<p>I could not find out much about the plan for the place, other than that BJ's dining hall would be renovated Bartlett style and incorporated into the building. </p>
<p>I guess those considering Shoreland, like myself, should keep in mind this switch. Does anyone know much about the building?</p>
<p>uh only that it's the most massive hospital-like dorm i've ever seen. there are artist's renditions floating around somewhere. its this really bizarre split-level design, where the height at any given point is between 1-9 stories. there will be singles, doubles, triples, maybe some quads, and, like shoreland, upperclassmen get sweet rooms. also not all the shoreland houses are necessarily going to the new dorm. I know at least one new house, del giorno, will be there.</p>
<p>On campus rumor has it the houses are not transferring; the new dorm will have all new houses. If you live in the Shoreland, though, you get dibs in the new dorm. The place doesn't sound half bad, really.</p>
<p>Wait, what are they doing to the BJ dining hall?</p>
<p>i'm just hoping for two things....</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I hope the rooms are big, like shoreland's.</p></li>
<li><p>I hope it doesn't look like Max P....ewww- <em>sore thumb gesture facing downward</em></p></li>
</ol>
<p>It looks worse than Max P., IMO...</p>
<p>oh poopie.... not another sore thumb</p>
<p>Here is an artist's rendering of the plan: <a href="http://facilities.uchicago.edu/campusconstruction/projects/s-reshall.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://facilities.uchicago.edu/campusconstruction/projects/s-reshall.shtml</a></p>
<p>The architects have designed dorms for many peer universities including Yale.</p>
<p>Here is a closer look: <a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_FIlyopn4ubY/RcJU9UAMVMI/AAAAAAAAABM/2qMyu7ZVw40/s1600-h/IMG_1757.JPG%5B/url%5D">http://bp1.blogger.com/_FIlyopn4ubY/RcJU9UAMVMI/AAAAAAAAABM/2qMyu7ZVw40/s1600-h/IMG_1757.JPG</a></p>
<p>I read in the uncommon app blog that students have dubbed it "the panopticon."</p>
<p>it's huge! sheesh. i also wanted to know if it would be worth going to Shoreland for one semester in order to get dibs on this place...but that depends on if it's gonna be any good.</p>
<p>It looks really out of place. </p>
<p>Does anyone know what buildings it is covering up across the street?</p>
<p>Apparently, the reason the University of Chicago decided NOT to make a Gothic architecture building that would actually fit in being attached to Burton-Judson as well as with campus overall is because it would "alienate members of the community." </p>
<p>a) **** that.
b) They've already done that by kicking all the black people out of the area a few decades back.</p>
<p>"b) They've already done that by kicking all the black people out of the area a few decades back."</p>
<p>I assure you- there are PLENTY of black people still left. Take a walk down to the bus station on 55th and see for yourself.</p>
<p>Dannon: Semantics doesn't change what they did in Hyde Park and you know it.</p>
<p>Neverborn: I'm not quite sure where you're going- or what you want out of chicago. Do you want them to be one with the community or be gothic?</p>
<p>Neverborn -</p>
<p>The University didn't "force" anyone to do anything. If the University didn't perform some amount of urban renewal than I doubt you or I would have wanted to go there - assuming the school survived in the resulting 4 decades.</p>
<p>Well, this is turning quickly into a thread about the University -vs- Communtiy issue. Personally, I know something about the issue, but i'm not sharing it because i don't know all of the grit underneath the issue and I probably couldn't defend any of the thoughts about the issue. If this is going to turn into a "debate" sort of forum, please know your facts and present them. I think that this could get very interesting very quickly if we take it seriously without tossing out loffty claims without any evidence and without personal attacks on other posters. This could be fun-</p>
<p>You're all getting defensive no reason. Neverborn's tone was negative, but he stated it as historical fact, not as an attack on its merits (which obviously is free ground for discussion, but its silly criticize him on that level). And by the way, "Myself," eminent domain is, in fact, a matter of "force."</p>
<p>Nuveen -</p>
<p>As far as I know the University did not make use of eminent domain.</p>
<p>Dannon: I want Gothic architecture. I could care less about the surrounding community. I just think their lip service is hypocritical at best.</p>
