Demolition:Hausler Hall

[Big Mike]

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1760690238/Haussler-Hall-falls

[wingrider81]

Haussler

The Haussler Center was built amidst my time at the Hilltop. Of course I spent 100s of hours there. (No Friday Nite date? Get dressed. Put your hightops in a bag and blow off the week's steam playing pickup at Haussler.) That being said, it had an decidedly odd layout for a building on a campus with construction and ie programs. I am delighted for the upgrade....

[Big Mike]

The Haussler Center was built amidst my time at the Hilltop. Of course I spent 100s of hours there. (No Friday Nite date? Get dressed. Put your hightops in a bag and blow off the week's steam playing pickup at Haussler.) That being said, it had an decidedly odd layout for a building on a campus with construction and ie programs. I am delighted for the upgrade....

Good points wr81...plus BU's campus is in need of some "green space" in that area with all the new buildings in an portion of campus that will be very busy for years to come!

[Guest]

haussler

I remember many of days at lunch time sneeking up the outside steps into haussler gym to play ball with all the top Peoria Players...great memories...great times.

[KillerB]

I volunteered as a tour guide for students and alums when Hausser opened.
It was a huge improvement over the old gym which had many dead spots on the floor.. wasn't big enough.. and many other problems.

[Bradleyguy10]

Next step...demolish Morgan Hall...that thing is an eyesore blocking some candy. It's like the fat dude sweating his @ss off in overly-tight clothes that's blocking the 11-on-a-10-scale with equally tight clothes and showin' some skin on a 90 degree day..

Come on man move!

...yea don't pretend that's not the perfect analogy

[DUBrave5]

Next step...demolish Morgan Hall...that thing is an eyesore blocking some candy. It's like the fat dude sweating his @ss off in overly-tight clothes that's blocking the 11-on-a-10-scale with equally tight clothes and showin' some skin on a 90 degree day..

Come on man move!

...yea don't pretend that's not the perfect analogy

Rumor I have heard that next is the combination of the business and engineering schools. Supposedly the reason they aren't tearing down Morgan hall yet is because all the servers and network stuff is in that building. Not sure if that is true, but that is what I have heard.

[Bradleyguy10]

Rumor I have heard that next is the combination of the business and engineering schools. Supposedly the reason they aren't tearing down Morgan hall yet is because all the servers and network stuff is in that building. Not sure if that is true, but that is what I have heard.

Yeah I know it's not coming down...it's not even in the "renaissance" plan. After the convergence center (which I'm not entirely sure what that is) Morgan will still stand tall...ugh

[DUBrave5]

Yeah I know it's not coming down...it's not even in the "renaissance" plan. After the convergence center (which I'm not entirely sure what that is) Morgan will still stand tall...ugh

Convergence center? Is that what they are calling the combination of baker and jobst? I've only heard that it was going to be called the Caterpillar Center for Business and Engineering, maybe I'm wrong though. I'm not really in the "know" for this type of stuff...

[amckillip]

Yeah I know it's not coming down...it's not even in the "renaissance" plan. After the convergence center (which I'm not entirely sure what that is) Morgan will still stand tall...ugh

Convergence center? Is that what they are calling the combination of baker and jobst? I've only heard that it was going to be called the Caterpillar Center for Business and Engineering, maybe I'm wrong though. I'm not really in the "know" for this type of stuff...

The convergence center was the name before Caterpillar donated for naming rights. The fact they are joining a building made up of 7 buildings, with a building made up of 2 buildings to create a building comprised of 10 buildings, for their biggest ROI students (please don't dispute this, it's true) is kind of ridiculous. Not to mention there are no plans to address either buildings curb appeal from main street in the process... ugh, I love my alma mater, but between the eng/biz building and the process of overcrowding dilapidated dorms on the northeast corner of campus (if you haven't seen it lately, go look, its attrocious)., they make very poor decisions sometimes.

[ManMythLegend]

Heitz is getting a face lift this summer and next summer. Mostly an interior gut and complete renovation, but also getting a new emergency stairwell, long needed elevator, air conditioning, very nice bathrooms...

Geisert is currently getting a much needed addition on it's main dining area which will double the seating. It's also getting a Kosher kitchen.

U-Hall had all of the main bathrooms gutted and renovated last year as well as a face lift to the rooms.

Williams Hall had a bathroom and main lobby area renovation as well as room facelifts and all new doors installed a few years ago (and a small addition to the cafeteria)

Harper/Wycoff had a room facelift I believe 5 years back as well.

The new Alumni Center and revamped Westlake hall will be 2nd to none. Absolutely top of the line. I expect the project for the convergence center to be every bit as good.

Everything going on at the Hilltop is very exciting (especially if you're in the construction biz).

[amckillip]

Heitz is getting a face lift this summer and next summer. Mostly an interior gut and complete renovation, but also getting a new emergency stairwell, long needed elevator, air conditioning, very nice bathrooms...

Geisert is currently getting a much needed addition on it's main dining area which will double the seating. It's also getting a Kosher kitchen.

U-Hall had all of the main bathrooms gutted and renovated last year as well as a face lift to the rooms.

Williams Hall had a bathroom and main lobby area renovation as well as room facelifts and all new doors installed a few years ago (and a small addition to the cafeteria)

Harper/Wycoff had a room facelift I believe 5 years back as well.

The new Alumni Center and revamped Westlake hall will be 2nd to none. Absolutely top of the line. I expect the project for the convergence center to be every bit as good.

Everything going on at the Hilltop is very exciting (especially if you're in the construction biz).

I agree whats happening on the hilltop is very exciting, but pretending like we're doing anything more than a patch job isn't helping anything. Have you been in the dorms lately? They really are sub-standard. I was in Geisert a couple weeks ago and counted 5 distinctly different types of floor tiles being used, as well as three different types of dividers for the stalls, all in one bathroom! Look off the patio on Geisert at this new expansion of the dining hall, it's hideous. It looks like we set a tiny one room school house on top of a concrete pad. Ask any admissions counselor what the main thing they here about why freshman don't like Bradley and it's the dorms. They are not competitive with similar schools at all. This is exactly why starting next year the school is letting freshman students live in apartments despite poor expected enrollment (which creates a terrible freshman experience, but that a whole different debate).

Like I said, I am a huge proponent of BU and the experience it delivers students, but ignoring and sugarcoating it's shortcomings helps no one.

[Bradleyguy10]

Yeah there is no denying it the dorms are far behind the tops in the nation. Now are they the worse, no I don't think so and I don't necessarily even think they need to be top half. I was in heitz hall my freshman year, regarded as the worst dorm hall on campus, and I had the time of my life. I'm not worried about the dorms too much, people can get used to any living condition for the most part, but to act like these renovations are doing anything is kind of funny. Heitz, it seems, has had some kind of renovation each summer while I was in Bradley and the trend continues as I'm out.

The convergence center I'm not sold on yet. I've seen the "model" and the virtual pictures of it and it seems misleading to me. It looks like it would be an entirely new building but from what I hear it's merely connecting the two buildings. This in my opinion could look very very bad as the two buildings don't even match really in style or color so how is the connecting building going to fit the two of them together? The outside of both buildings look very old so how is a new building going to look in between it. Sorry business majors but Jobst needs the upgrade much more than Baker does...that money should be used to improve Jobst before connecting the two buildings...Jobst is just a mosh pit of different styles of buildings..it's really pathetic actually.

[ManMythLegend]

Structurally speaking, every building on campus is sound. There is no cost benefit of demo'ing a building because the floor tiles don't match. I agree that there are still buildings on campus that need updating and a few that need major gut and renovations and I think that it will happen in time. Geisert is the newest dorm on campus and thus it will be the last to receive a major renovation. Heitz is by far the oldest and most out of date building on campus and therefore is getting the most attention (in case you didn't have the privilege of living there, it was in dire need of it 8 years ago when i was a freshman). We're heading in the right direction, and I personally don't think that our enrollment is suffering.

As for the aesthetics of the new Geisert cafeteria expansion, I'm not an architect, I just build it! I do know that the styling of the penthouse you speak of will match the lines and construction type of the stairwell and elevator additions on Heitz...so it will have some similar architecture and won't look completely out of place when complete (although it still may look a little out of place