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owl2Doc said
FYI:
Project "Don't ruin the Innovation Village with the new Medicine Office building" was a success as the building site has now been moved to west of the existing College of Medicine building, which is a better fit. Kudos to FAU for making the right decision there!
(Also updated the blog entry with that info)Posted On: Apr 15th 2014, 12:44 AM #330914
Great to hear!! That one made no sense at all. Thanks for the info.
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owl2Doc said
FYI:
Project "Don't ruin the Innovation Village with the new Medicine Office building" was a success as the building site has now been moved to west of the existing College of Medicine building, which is a better fit. Kudos to FAU for making the right decision there!
(Also updated the blog entry with that info)Posted On: Apr 15th 2014, 12:44 AM #330914
Ditto from Georgia, great work in pointing out a OBVIOUSlLY BAD location issue to them!
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- First and foremost, the renderings posted were something very early done just to sell FAU on them as an architecture firm. They are NOT representative of the final design and parts of that may be abandoned completely so don't get too hung up on the pictures in the last DIEHARD blog.
- Some other renderings they threw out were showed the possibility of removing certain sections of the second floor to open up the space so students can see up/down. Imagine walking on the second floor and in certain sections the width would be half of what it is right now, with a balcony and railing to see down below. "Right now some students don't even know you can go up to the second floor."
- The meetings were surprisingly well attended, full rooms in the Alumni Center ballroom there.
- Suggestions to improve the Breezeway from student/alumni groups centered included integrating our school colors and/or the beach theme into the Breezeway, adding more color, adding more plants, adding seats, adding Wi-fi, completely renovating the bathrooms, improving lighting and disabled access to second floor, trying to force student clubs to the second floor and adding a coffee shop or something upstairs to get people up there, and the students asked more than once if the architects could do something about the raccoons - which of course they can't. "We're architects, not critter control haha."
- And of course fixing the leaks. Architect explained that the Breezeway leaks because it's not waterproof. Never was. They'd waterproof it as part of the renovation. "It's not the Breezeway's fault, it just wasn't done before."
- Faculty/staff meeting was very similar except they wanted to get students on the architecture team for this project (which isn't really feasible) and they wanted the plants to be natural, indigenous plants.
- Coach Partridge came out with Coach Harriott and explained that his mind obviously goes to selling prospective athletes on the school so he'd like to be able to walk down it with them and have the Breezeway "tell the story of FAU" through photo murals and such.
- Chic-fil-A is indeed replacing Einstein's in the Breezeway. As they say, you heard it here first.
- President Kelly wants FAU to be a Top 25 institution and he'd like to see 10-15k students living on-campus. IIRC he's instructed Dennis Crudele to look at the projects we're considering and wants to either get them done in the next five years or we're not going to do them at all. He doesn't want for FAU to be sitting on its hands.
- The Parking Garage 3 retail is on hold because the vendors have been tentative but they have not abandoned the Innovation Village project. In fact, the next Senior Class project will be a fountain for the plaza there.
I think that's all the important stuff.
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That is what I wany to hear! Welcome President Kelly!
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DeltAlumnus said
How many live on campus now?Posted On: Apr 17th 2014, 8:43 PM #330958
Approximately 4,200.
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Hopefully that is not a direct quote from Prez Kelly, because I don't really like those 2 options from a realistic standpoint.
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