The Big Red Marching Band hopes to move into its new building — which will double the practice space of the group — by January 2013. University architects believe the new building will also provide better sound quality than the band's current space in Barton Hall.

Construction at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art should finish by the time students arrive on campus next fall, according to Johnson Museum Director Frank Robinson and project managers from Cornell’s Office of Capital Projects and Planning.

The 139-year-old McGraw Hall is scheduled to undergo a major preservation project beginning in the next few weeks to fix the building's exterior masonry and repair its roof.

Weill Cornell Medical College’s new medical research building in New York City — the most expensive building project in Cornell’s history — is on schedule and under budget, according to Stephen Cohen, executive vice provost and executive vice dean of the medical school. 

The planned building will house a first floor reserved for commercial use, two parking lots, a fitness center and four floors for residential apartments.

There is no need to travel to New York to see Saint Patrick’s Cathedral next week; just log onto the internet and visit PhotoCity. The website, which is subtitled, “Capture the world, one photo at a time,” was created in part by Prof. Noah Snavely, computer science.

An assortment of architecture students, faculty and the occasional architect neophytes (specifically, this writer) gathered on Wednesday night for one last lecture before fall break with Michael Manfredi M.Arch ’80 of the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi. Manfredi, who received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Notre Dame and his master’s at Cornell University, has been acclaimed for the various designs his firm has implemented over the last several years. Highlighting nine of his recent works, Manfredi used these projects to explain the unique approach that the firm takes to conceptualizing the projects.

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Re: “A Gag Order on Race in Architecture: Talking about culture instead of experience,” Arts, April 21.