Dartmouth's next dorm, to be constructed on Tuck Mall near Butterfield Hall, will be designed by the architectural firm of Atkin, Olsin, Lawson-Bell, the same firm that designed McCulloch Hall, the College's most recent addition to its residential system.
Plans are still in the extremely preliminary stages, but the new building or buildings will house between 180 and 250 students -- most likely about 220 -- in a combination of singles and two-room doubles, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman.
By comparison, both the Massachusetts Row and the Gold Coast clusters house about 250 students. However, the Tuck Mall dorm will form a cluster with Butterfield and Russell Sage Halls and will not be a cluster unto itself.
The working cost estimate for the dorm or dorms is about $100,000 per bed, comparable to the cost per bed for the 80 that opened last fall in McCulloch, which means the total
