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Show Mew lyoidloimg IPInried For C!Bege off Klupsinr, f m .... . .. r-j .a I ; --! - - l j 7ted t0 th north, ,ith slted siats over , ' since the building Z direct "orth. Sel 8"'1-beskylightSont 8"'1-beskylightSont ings. 1JOIiob:1: The University k f"d adding morerc o the Medical S? ing to Ensign. it mg of remodeling'8, Vha Now under construction, a University vivarium, vivar-ium, located near the Medical Center, will i house animals for research. It should be completed com-pleted this summer. Photo by Phil Derby (Editor's Note: This artirle is fourth in a series explaining the University construction proRram. It (toes into detail on the three buildings being constructed under the direction of Robert Ensign, department of construction and planning.) By Sandy Anderson Staff Writer The College of Nursing will be six stories high; the first two levels will be used for parking. The Board of Regents recently approved the working drawings, the contracts should be let in July, and the building should be finished by the end of 1968, according ac-cording to Robert Ensign, department de-partment of construction and planning. The building will be on the Medical Center campus north of the Pharmacy Building. It will take up 76,000 square feet, and will be a regular academic building with classrooms, seminar semi-nar rooms, and faculty rooms. At the present time the Nursing school is strewn over the campus with space in tha Medical Center, Cen-ter, Annex, and in temporary buildings. State, Federal Funds In front of the College there will be a pedestrian plaza that will extend over to the College of Medicine and tie the entire Medical Center together. Money for the building is provided by state and federal sources; $1.5 centralize a place to keep animals ani-mals for all departments on campus. This will enable t h e University to take better care of the animals. The one-story building is on the bench east of the Medical Center, and should be completed complet-ed this summer. It is now about 60 per cent finished. It will contain con-tain two swineries, several monkey mon-key rooms, a number of dog kennels, ken-nels, and about 20 general purpose pur-pose rooms. Being built by the Haslan Construction Con-struction Company under architects archi-tects Redgate and Jackson, the Vivarium will take up 20,000 square feet. Finished in 1967 Of the $4 million being spent on the College of Fine Arts Center, Cen-ter, $3,520,000 will come from the state, and the rest from a Title II Federal Grant which provides pro-vides for graduate space, according ac-cording to Ensign. It should be finished in late 1969, being contracted con-tracted in November of this year. The College will consist of four sections: (1) a three-story building for the department of architecture; (2) a three-story building for the department of art; (3) a one-story building for the Museum of Fine Arts; and (4) a one-story sculpture building. million of the $2.7 million required re-quired for the College of Nursing Nurs-ing Building will be provided by a federal grant, the rest will come from state money. John Clawson is the architect. The entire building will be completely wired for closed circuit cir-cuit television. Televisions in all rooms will pick up University educational programs. The fourth floor will be devoted to graduate programs. The building will contain a Nursing Arts Laboratory, a flexible flex-ible room set up like a hospital-patient hospital-patient unit. There will also be a Human Development Laboratory Labora-tory where students will learn to work with children, and an outside play area for the children. chil-dren. Animal Housing Part of the money $190,000 of the $510,000 required for the Vivarium, or central animal quarters, will be from . federal money, and the rest from donations. dona-tions. The Vivarium will be for the housing of animals for research, re-search, primarily for the College Col-lege of Medicine, but it will also The Museum of Fine Arts is presently located on the fourth floor of the Park Building. The new building will contain space for the permanent exhibit and space for traveling exhibits. There will also be two gallery areas in the art building for student, stu-dent, faculty, and traveling shows. Connect Buildings The Art and Architecture Buildings will be connected by a bridge containing reading rooms and study space and a lounge area. There will also be a court between the buildings. The Sculpture Building will be primarily for sculpting, but there also will be rooms for doing do-ing pottery and other arts. There will be a sculpture court next to the Sculpture Building. The Fine Arts Complex will be near the place where Stadium Village now is. It will occupy 145,000 square feet. Art classes I will be moved out of the temporary tempor-ary buildings where they now are, the buildings will be torn down to make way for the Sports Arena and Physical Education Complex. Under architects Edwards and Daniels, special attention will be devoted to both natural and artificial ar-tificial lighting for the art buildings. build-ings. The oil studios will be ori- |