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Snøhetta’s Hopkins arts center revamp serves both town and gown to the creative community at Dartmouth

2022-04-08T12:32:00-04:00

Snøhetta has revealed renderings for its new expansion and modernization of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.

The old facility known commonly as the Hop will be upgraded with a new state-of-the-art broadcast facility, improved accessibility, and connections to the surrounding Hanover Inn and Hood Museum of Art all while preserving the character of its original 1962 design from revered Lincoln Center architect Wallace K. Harrison.

Image courtesy Snøhetta and Methanoia

The renewed Hop will serve as a welcoming gathering spot that connects the town of Hanover with the campus’ central Green. Inspired by the distant White Mountain landscape, the design features an exterior plaza that opens into a new lobby space dubbed the Forum.

Image courtesy Snøhetta and Methanoia

A central staircase connects the ground-level social condenser to the building’s new 150-seat recital hall and performance laboratory on the second floor, with views of Baker Library and the surrounding qu...

TWBTA's Hood Museum of Art makeover scheduled to open in January 2019

2018-06-27T15:10:00-04:00

Students—as both learners and curators—are leading the way at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, which is due to reopen on 26 January 2019 after a closure of nearly three years for an expansion and revamp by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The $50m project expands the museum’s space by 50% to over 62,000 sq ft, adds six new galleries and renovates the museum’s original 1985 Charles Moore building (which was “not healthy” [...] revealing rust and mould in the renovation process).

Previously on Archinect: "It’s almost as if they were getting revenge for what MoMA did to their Folk Art Museum" — TWBTA take on Charles Moore's Hood Museum

Archinect Sessions #58: Last week’s architecture news. When it wasn’t so depressing.

2016-03-31T18:58:00-04:00

Collecting the most important news of the past week – that is, from the recording date's perspective of March 30th, the day before Zaha Hadid's sudden death – this episode brings stories on: the winning below-grade skyscraper (sinkscraper?) of eVolo's Skyscraper Competition; a long-lost Le Corbusier tapestry returning to the Sydney Opera House; another twist on co-habitation in the co-work startup, PodShare; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects taking "revenge" on Charles Moore's Hood Museum; and our future of eating sandwiches while robots do our work.

We'll discuss the late Dame Zaha Hadid's legacy on next week's podcast.

Listen to episode 58 of Archinect Sessions, "Last week’s architecture news. When it wasn’t so depressing.":

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"It’s almost as if they were getting revenge for what MoMA did to their Folk Art Museum" — TWBTA take on Charles Moore's Hood Museum

2016-03-29T13:36:00-04:00

To those concerned about the renovation of the Hood Museum of Art, the situation is charged with paradox: The architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, who protested the Museum of Modern Art’s dismantling of the Folk Art Museum they designed in Manhattan, are now transforming the Hood, an award-winning museum designed by Charles Moore [...]. “It’s almost as if they were getting revenge for what MoMA did to their Folk Art Museum [...] It’s totally insensitive to the Moore building.”

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien previously in the Archinect news: