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Paul Rudolph Hall and Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects

To celebrate and restore what lay hidden, tarnished, destroyed, or outright vilified, the university engaged Charles Gwathmey (Yale, M. Arch., 1962) to renovate the 114,000-square-foot A&A Building and design an 87,000-square-foot addition for the art history department. The results range from exhilarating to disappointing.

The most successful part of the $126 million commission reclaims the existing building—now rechristened Paul Rudolph Hall (as requested by Sid Bass, the renovation’s lead donor). Power-washing and patching—along with vast, glowing new windows—have brought out the exterior interplay of light and shadow, of massive volumes and voids. -- Architectural Record

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Claire T. Carney Library Renovation and Addition, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA designed by designLAB Architects

A section of the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, designed by Paul Rudolph in 1960, is being engulfed in a new living room. That room, complete with fireplaces and walnut-paneled nooks, is meant to make part of the campus more usable; like Discovering Columbus, it has the effect of bringing visitors in close proximity to sculpture—in this case, Rudolph's evocative concrete forms. -- Architectural Record 

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Renovation of Cunz Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2011 designed by JBAD

Cunz Hall, a four story, 60’s era, Brutalist Style structure on the campus of The Ohio State University, has been extensively renovated as the new home of the College of Public Health, with offices, classrooms and bioscience laboratories. This is a LEED-registered project. The renovations retained the concrete structure and much of the signature Brutalist precast concrete panel exteriors while improving upon a number of deficiencies, including:

- The lack of interior day-lighting
- Confusing interior circulation
- Limited contextual relationship (yes, a hallmark of Brutalism)
- The lack of clarity of the building’s entries that were located on four identical facades
- Aesthetic limitations of this particular example of Brutalist architecture -- ArchDaily

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GSA proposes trading Hoover Building for new FBI campus -- The Washington Post

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