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re: Spinoff...campus comparisons: Student Unions
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:07 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:07 am to TigersOfGeauxld
you've got us beat.
from the sounds of this thread, ours is on OM's level. I remember reading in our student paper a little while ago ours is the smallest union in the SEC and was renovated the longest ago of all other conference teams
thus I'm not going to waste time with pictures
from the sounds of this thread, ours is on OM's level. I remember reading in our student paper a little while ago ours is the smallest union in the SEC and was renovated the longest ago of all other conference teams
thus I'm not going to waste time with pictures
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Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:20 am to A$AP Cocky
It has underground floors and is bigger than it looks.
It's connected to this
Quick search and I don't see inside pics. There is an auditorium, or at least there used to be.
It's connected to this
Quick search and I don't see inside pics. There is an auditorium, or at least there used to be.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:24 am to jbond
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The side of the Ferg that faces Houser Hall is ugly, and the mismatch in style between 70's architecture and columns is just weird.
That's probably next, if they haven't already renovated it. By the looks of the updated picture, they probably did.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:25 am to OBReb6
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You must be joking. Top 3 ugliest building on campus, not nearly enough room to sit to eat, not enough restaurants. Just wretched in general.
C'mon, it's not that bad...
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I would imagine they will try to move towards the architecture theme of our other recent projects.
The only problem with that is, you can go too far. To the point where every building on campus literally looks like every other.
The standing joke among LSU fans in regards to Ole Miss and Alabama is... "______ is the red brick building with the white columns. Can't miss it."
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:30 am to TigersOfGeauxld
The inside is nice, I'll give them that. The building itself is pretty meh.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:34 am to TigersOfGeauxld
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Doesn't Ole Miss have a really nice Union?
Ole Miss isn't a sell-out like carpetbaggers that make up the rest of the SEC. They have a Student Confederacy.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:37 am to Carolina Tide
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Student Union
Renovations Beginning Summer 2014
The University of Mississippi will begin a four-year, $50 million renovation and expansion of its Student Union in summer 2014, which will include a larger dining area, new student government offices, a ballroom, conference space and other amenities.
A full university committee spent years studying ways to upgrade the building, visiting student unions at Auburn University, Louisiana State University and others. Ultimately, the committee decided to renovate the existing Ole Miss Student Union, but also to increase its size from 97,000 square feet to about 157,000 square feet.
The project will be handled in phases over about four years, which should minimize disruption. The bookstore and food court inside the Student Union will remain open throughout construction.
The 10,000-square foot post office will shut down permanently June 30. UM Student Housing will still deliver mail and care packages to students who live in residence halls, and university employees will continue to receive business mail at the departments where they work. The first floor lobby of Crosby Hall will become a mail and package center to serve students who live in residence halls. Those UM retirees, employees and others who had a mailbox in the Student Union will have the option of getting a P.O. box at Oxford’s post office on McElroy Drive.
Historic Growth at Ole Miss
Just for comparison's sake, LSU's Student union is 305,000 sq. ft. LSU spent $84 million to expand and renovate it.
GraceHebert Architects
This post was edited on 7/11/14 at 12:49 am
Posted on 7/11/14 at 12:56 am to randomways
Posted on 7/11/14 at 1:00 am to TigersOfGeauxld
After expansion, the Reitz Union complex will be close to 650K square feet.
This post was edited on 7/11/14 at 1:01 am
Posted on 7/11/14 at 3:41 am to bgator85
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After expansion, the Reitz Union complex will be close to 650K square feet.
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The UF Bookstore, Welcome Center, and parking garage complex was built adjacent to the Reitz Union and opened in Summer of 2003. The Food Court was expanded at the same time to create a connection point between facilities. The combined Reitz Union - Bookstore/Welcome Center complex currently encompasses over 513,000 square feet of space.
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Since 1967 the Reitz Union has been the center of student activities and the heart of student involvement. The Reitz Union serves more than 20,000 students, faculty, staff, and visitors each day. The dramatic expansion and renovation project will add much needed student activities space to accommodate UF's growing student body. The project includes the construction of a new 100,000 square foot multilevel structure, and renovation of up to 50,000 square feet of the existing building.
History
Expansion
So about 613,000 square feet total. Which includes Bookstore, Welcome Center, Union, and the 271 space parking garage as one unit. LSU's bookstore and parking garage are across the street, and ours would be about as large if they were connected.
I don't know whose Union would be larger than UF's.
This post was edited on 7/11/14 at 4:57 am
Posted on 7/11/14 at 3:53 am to Tds & Beer
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Quick search and I don't see inside pics.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 4:27 am to TigersOfGeauxld
UGA does not have a student union facility :( cant afford it.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 4:49 am to Dawgnational
Lies!
Holder Construction Group, LLC
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The Tate Center Expansion at the University of Georgia is a full service Student Union in the center of campus. The building design includes a large ballroom, retail, offices, meeting rooms, a 508-space parking deck, five restaurants and a cafeteria. The project is approximately a 100,000 sf addition to the existing Tate Student Center constructed on top of the parking deck. A high pedestrian bridge connects the Tate addition to the nearby Miller Learning Center.
A feature of the Tate Center includes the 12,000 square foot ballroom, which seats about 50 percent more than Georgia Hall, a part of the original 1983 Tate that has now been converted into meeting and office space for student groups, and the ballroom can be subdivided into seven smaller rooms. In addition to meeting and office spaces, the expansion houses a huge third-floor lobby featuring a projection screen about 24 feet across. A 30-foot-wide hall connects the lobby to the older part of the Tate.
Holder also provided technical review, cost evaluation, and schedule evaluation assistance to the design professional team during the design phase. Holder also renovated portions of the existing Tate Center.
This project achieved LEED Gold Certification, becoming the first LEED Certified project on the University of Georgia's campus.
Holder Construction Group, LLC
Posted on 7/11/14 at 4:55 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Interesting. I actually didnt know that Tate was considered the student union. It didn't 'union' in the name. Nice find.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 5:05 am to Dawgnational
Posted on 7/11/14 at 5:26 am to Old Hellen Yeller
BTW, here's an aerial view of the expansion:
Posted on 7/11/14 at 5:35 am to TigersOfGeauxld
The Reitz is going to be finished my last semester (Fall 2015). Hopefully it's as nice as it is being billed.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 5:52 am to TigersOfGeauxld
aTm and UF should dominate this on the basis of student population alone...
Ours underwent a nice renovation 6-7 years ago as TD's pics show. Maybe in another 50 years we'll have the majority of the campus finally converted to this brick format which has been consistently used for the last decade or so.
No greater symbol of our lack of leadership for the last 100 years than the discrepancies between all the different architecture on campus. Just no foresight for so long...
Ours underwent a nice renovation 6-7 years ago as TD's pics show. Maybe in another 50 years we'll have the majority of the campus finally converted to this brick format which has been consistently used for the last decade or so.
No greater symbol of our lack of leadership for the last 100 years than the discrepancies between all the different architecture on campus. Just no foresight for so long...
Posted on 7/11/14 at 5:54 am to joshnorris14
Opened in 2008
Posted on 7/11/14 at 6:00 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Will it still have a bowling alley and barber shop?
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