Scharbauer Hall Progress
Scharbauer Hall at TCU is now rising from its construction site. The new building, which will sit behind Reed Hall at the eastern end of the new Campus Commons, will allow the consolidation of AddRan College into Reed and the new Scharbauer. Rather than being connected to Reed, as the old Brown-Lupton Student Center on this site was, Scharbauer Hall will be separated from Reed by a courtyard. Above, you can see the columns of the building starting to rise. Click the thumbnails for a larger view.
The view from a bit more to the west, showing the columns rising alongside the tower crane that is now in place on the site.
Finally, a view from the new Union, looking east across the new Campus Commons at the Scharbauer Hall construction site.
TCU is really spending a lot money and with all the new buildings it look like they are getting their money’s worth. One thing I don’t undertstand is why the big crane? I don;t recall with the other new buildings a crane was used. Will this building be taller than any of the others and if so won’t this take from the uniformity?
I recall there being a crane of some sort involved in several of the other TCU projects like the new Union. May not have been a big tower crane but the principle is the same.
Scharbauer Hall will be four stories tall, so it’s not going to be out of scale with the rest of the commons. I figure the tower crane was just the most efficient setup for this particular job.