If the hum of heavy machinery, orange construction fencing, and countless detours aren’t obvious enough, a building boom is under way at Princeton. “In fact, it’s the largest expansion of the campus in our history,” says university architect Ron McCoy. “We are adding over 3 million square feet of new facilities.” An art museum designed by Adjaye Associates is rising in the middle of campus. To the east, Ennead Architects is stewarding a new facility for the School of Engineering and Applied Science that will stretch a quarter-mile long. Princeton is building farther south, too—across Carnegie Lake, where the 85-acre Meadows Neighborhood will soon come to life. It’s all a part of Princeton’s 2026 Campus Framework Plan, which outlines a vision to expand the undergraduate student body.
But where will these future scholars live? More important, how will architecture shape their experience on campus? Last fall, New York–based TenBerke, formerly Deborah Berke Partners, completed Princeton’s two newest residential colleges, on the site of the Class of 1895 Field—giving the university’s mission a worthy architectural expression. Totaling 485,000 square feet and each housing 510 students, Yeh College and New College West are the first projects to be completed under the framework plan and rank as the firm’s most ambitious endeavor to date. And, with Princeton’s southward advance, they will take on increasing prominence at the heart of a reoriented campus center.
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