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March 8, 2020

Trying to shake off the grad school blues, I went back to campus to take a few shots of the new hotel. It’s rising pretty fast, and will look nice among the engineering buildings. Tried to get some of the new science building but there’s always someone driving behind me on Craver.

Keep a lookout for a time lapse in the future!

Here are some random shots of campus. You may be able to see the steel of the science building in the first one. The HAWC blends in nicely.

November 21, 2019

Just got an email with the following image, looks like the new Rec center is in the final stretch. They even have it down to the hour, so clear your schedules...

September 14, 2019

Here’s a picture from Thursday evening. Even though I’m sure the little dots on the windows help keep the sun out, it does ruin any pictures you try to take.

August 23, 2019

View from above this evening.

May 25, 2019

The real construction for the hotel is about to begin. Blasting the large amounts of earth away begins Tuesday, and it’s going to be very interesting for those kids going to the early college next year lol.

The second entrance is looking really nice too, and it’ll look really impressive once they get rid of the scrubby vegetation in front of PORTAL.

May 25, 2019

The balcony of the modern art museum is pretty good for taking pictures of this site. It will be even better for pictures of the Metro tower. I have another picture with a statue in the foreground, but I’m not sure of the museum’s policy regarding pictures of the art.

April 26, 2019

The academic quad revamp is winding down, and it looks pretty good as a final product.

April 10, 2019

The crane was mostly done when I went by today.

April 10, 2019

The timing of this, a few weeks after Phil DuBois said this wasn’t the right time, is amazingly frustrating.

April 1, 2019

As someone who’s been to various campuses both in state and out of state for various competitions, Charotte’s campus is nice by itself, but there could be a little bit more architectural variety. Or memorable landmarks (rip Belk Tower). Kennesaw State has a piece of the Berlin Wall, and Chapel Hill has some interesting functionalist architecture at least. Hopefully when the next phase of new buildings is made there can be a different style.

This will be known as the “DuBois era” of campus buildings lmao

April 1, 2019

One of the things that was talked about during the Chancellor's Forum last month was the HAWC, and the opening of the building has been pushed back to spring break of 2020, due to all the the rain delaying construction during February. Which is fair, though completely unsurprising considering the same thing happened to the light rail station.

In other news, once the new science building is complete, the plan is to move all classes out of Burson, and move any offices into Cameron, so that Burson can have some heavy renovations done. Then they're moving the biology department out of Woodward and into the renovated Burson, so that the other departments in Woodward can have more room. They will also be finishing the Bioinformatics building since apparently they never finished the top sections. I didn't think that would be a valid strategy but I don't exactly build academic buildings, so who knows.

Here's the webcam by the way, and it finally updated.

Finally, here's a story about the Chancellor taking the Governor to see Burson in person. Thrilling.

https://ninertimes.com/2019/03/house-bill-241-unc-system-seeks-200-million-for-system-wide-improvements/

How's everyone's opinion on the name change debate? Lot's of heated discussion on twitter and elsewhere.

March 14, 2019

Here are some pictures from the old PaTS and new science/data site, since the webcam seems to be broken. Also there’s some work being done in the space between King and Reese.

February 15, 2019

Here are some pictures from today, HAWC is coming along pretty good, has good presence at different distances. Ogunjobi was on campus today too, and that was cool meeting both him and Will Healy.

January 30, 2019

Here are two interesting articles from the Niner Times posted recently:

An article talking about what the future might be like for the amphitheater on campus. It's speculation, but at least someone wrote about it. (They also misspelled "amphitheater" on the cover for the print version)

https://ninertimes.com/2019/01/maintain-our-amphitheater/

An article on all of the campus land the university will be able to use in the future. The large cover image is what's left of the east campus boiler (aka a pile of rubble).

https://ninertimes.com/2019/01/university-owned-land-brings-new-opportunities-for-future-growth/

January 22, 2019

Here are some more pictures, the density by the union really looks good now from certain angles. Also the theater behind the CAB has been left to rot (the student newspaper wrote a story on it).

January 16, 2019

Pictures from West Deck

(the last picture is the new softball training building)

January 14, 2019

The webcam can’t capture how big the new HAWC is.

Btw @NCMike1990 that’s a great video.

December 17, 2018

Boiler tower coming down:

December 12, 2018

Camera for the yet unnamed science building at UNCC

December 6, 2018

12 minutes ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

Wholly cow! Thanks for the heads up. I'm gonna need to check on the UNCC Website for their future campus plans. Seems like there's Construction all over the Campus. I wonder how all this construction compares with the other Large UNC Schools? (NC State & UNC).

Seems like UNCC's growth is tremendous

I'm not sure if this is the case anymore, but UNCC counted for about 40% of the growth from the whole UNC system a few years ago, and most of the buildings on campus have been built in the 21st century.

As for keeping up, I'd suggest bookmarking the 5 year plan from the capital projects website: capitalconstructionplan.uncc.edu/list-projects-and-schedules

This map is also useful with the construction layer: maps.uncc.edu/

December 6, 2018

4 minutes ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

I'm curious as to what's replacing these buildings?

A brand new science building. There will also be some new servers build on the site.

More info from the designer's website:

https://www.clarknexsen.com/project/new-science-building-unc-charlotte/

December 6, 2018

Some recent news:

The students housed in Moore Hall are being moved out early, transferring them to rooms across campus that have been made empty during the semester. It's about time to say your last goodbyes if you feel the need to do so.

Here are some pictures of them tearing down the ugly old PATS building though. It's a shame we're losing the boiler tower though.

December 2, 2018

Some updates:

The old PaTS building has begun the demolition process. I'm assuming the other buildings on the site of the new science building will be removed during the winter break.

They quietly removed the elevator leading down from the SAC facing the COED/CHHS quad.

There are now two extra rooms on the 2nd floor of the library with glass walls, a classroom and a makerspace with a few 3-D printers.

The intersection on Cameron Blvd. and North Deck (near the light rail station) is getting permanent traffic and crosswalk signals.

And, they have started putting in the glass on the new Rec center.

November 24, 2018

For the first time in its history, the UNC Charlotte Football head coach has been let go. Good luck out there Lambert.

http://www.wfae.org/post/unc-charlotte-lets-go-head-football-coach-opens-national-search#stream/0

August 24, 2018

5 hours ago, tozmervo said:

It was your first test of the year. You didn't jump in the elevator shaft. You passed.

I hope I can use this as a grade replacement for not getting stuck in the new traffic pattern.

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