Big-Time Renovation and Heritage Preservation Project at Yale Nears Completion

It is the Art & Architecture Building renovations that are thr subject of Lawrence Biemiller's post in The Chronicle of Higher Education's Buildings & Grounds Blog:

[I]t has been “a project with a thousand surprises” — partly because Rudolph’s contract with the university had permitted him to make an unlimited number of changes, many of them undocumented, while the building was under construction. Most famously, perhaps, the eight-story building ended up with 37 levels, counting a multi-level terrace, stair landings for which Rudolph designed bench seats, and a penthouse with spectacular views of the Yale campus. The complexity of the renovation, along with Mr. Stern and Mr. Gwathmey’s insistence on living up to Rudolph’s high standards, accounts for its $126-million price tag.