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Discuss “The West Campus Gateway”

The University will soon have a 5.6-acre hole to fill on campus­­ — and they’re plugging it with an undertaking so large that even Henry Hornbostel, the school’s original architect, thought it too big to tackle.

The plug is the new Gates Center for Computer Science — along with a new 150-car garage and a west campus quad as well.

Estimated to finish by 2009, the project will cost an estimated $88 million, $20 million of which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated in September 2004. In comparison to the current newest building on campus — the Collaborative Innovation Center — the Gates Center is roughly 61 percent larger, at 208,000 square feet. It’s also 244 percent more expensive and will sit on one of the most difficult...

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Comment 1. Dave
Jan 30, 2006 at 10:56 PM

That thing is huge.

Comment 2. Jeff
Jan 30, 2006 at 10:56 PM

Word.

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