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The University of Houston is actually re-developing the entire campus over the next 17 years with its Campus Master Plan

What is now a commuter-centric campus full of sprawl and remote development is morphing into walkable academic village. If this comes to fruition, the University of Houston will be unrecognizable from its current state. I'm not sure if all of it can get done, but the current improvements have been exciting to see.

As for some of the most recent architecture, one of the neatest buildings is the UH Rec Center (2001)


New Science and Research Complex(2007):



Graduate Apartment Complex (from June):


September:


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Those UoH ones are pretty nice.
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Some scenes from the (mostly) now completed TCU campus commons and the new Brown-Lupton University Union:



















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Well, newer portions of campuses in general were designed to stave off the kind of uprisings seen at places like Berkeley, which has numerous large spaces in which people can congregate.

Hell, UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton are two great examples of that mentality in terms of campus layout (UCI especially in its early days), and I'm only using those two as examples because I used to live in Orange County.
UC Irvine was designed with keeping control of crowds, it is true. But Pereira's ring road layout and late modernist buildings were pretty architecturally significant. They also had that small Gehry building from the early 80s that was torn down. There are actually several pretty architecturally adventurous buildings on that campus.

Unfortunately, all the new construction at UC Irvine is really, really generic - it looks just like the new 3-4 story buildings found in all the anonymous office parks in Orange County.
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The University of Las Vegas is a mixed piece of work. On one hand there are some really pretty buildings like Lied Library and handful of the newer buildings by the Thomas and Mack center. Then there are the old buildings that dot the campus and most of those don't have much going for them. There is the one building near the music and art studios that is especially old and ugly.

Its too bad UNLV is in such a budget crisis. I would really like to see some of the really old buildings re-vamped into the new desert architecture.
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New dorm. Under construction.

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Construction started this summer on a new recreation center at WPI.




http://www.wpi.edu/news/20090/rec-plans.html

They even have webcams setup.
http://www.wpi.edu/campuslife/sportsandreccam.html
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Yeah, Millennium Hall came out great. Drexel's getting a lot of cool new stuff on its campus--really contrasts with the Totally '60s campus that was known as the ugliest in America for a few years.

Temple U. just got approved to build this little gem of an Architecture and Engineering School annex (assuming it has entrances on both sides of the building):

(courtesy here)


which looks a lot better than the new Tyler School of Art (which even has beige bricks) and looks to meet the street better than Alter Hall (which doesn't even meet Berks Street or 13th, and has its main entrance next to Speakmann Hall's--even though they're attached to each other), so maybe Temple is feeling the Drexel vibe with their new campus plan.
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The University of Houston is actually re-developing the entire campus over the next 17 years with its Campus Master Plan

What is now a commuter-centric campus full of sprawl and remote development is morphing into walkable academic village. If this comes to fruition, the University of Houston will be unrecognizable from its current state. I'm not sure if all of it can get done, but the current improvements have been exciting to see.
The University of North Texas is doing much the same things with our Master Plan. Like UoH, there's a big movement away from commuter accommodation and toward a more pedestrian-friendly campus. However, unlike UoH, it seems, UNT is sticking to more traditional buildings, though its for an honorable enough cause: they don't want to create the look of sporadic and out-of-place building styles. Still, thanks to a bunch of growth in the 70s, we have a number of brutalist or near brutalist style buildings that kinda through off that goal anyway.
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