What’s new this academic year? This Week@UCSD has been looking at all the changes taking place on campus in 2007-08. Here is a look at many of the new buildings that have already made their appearance on campus or will be popping up within the next 12 months. We also include a brief preview of some projects under construction for the 2008-09 academic year.

A shot of the Price Center expansion.

 

More restaurants, more shops, a night club and a hair salon are set to open at the Price Center in winter quarter. The unprecedented $77 million expansion will add 172,000 feet of space to the student center in the heart of campus. New restaurants will include an Asian tea shop, a burger joint and a dessert place. The Sunshine Store will move and become the Sunshine Market, a full service grocery store. The post office will also move and expand. The UCSD community is already enjoying a first step in the expansion at the UCSD Bookstore, which now offers more retail space and a coffee shop, Perks.

 

Construction at the old student center.

A second phase of renovation is under way for the old student center located near Mandeville Center. That project, also to be completed in winter quarter, includes additional space for Groundwork Books, the General Store, the Bike Shop and the Food Co-op. The Grove Caffe will offer inside seating and student organizations will have more office space.

 

The Hopkins parking structure

A new parking structure opened in September near RIMAC and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The $30 million Hopkins Parking Structure will provide 1320 spots for faculty, students and staff members. It should help meet the campus’ parking needs for the next three years, said Brian d’Autremont, director of Parking and Transportation Services.

One Miramar Street

More than 800 students have moved into the first new graduate housing complex to open its doors on campus since 1994. One Miramar Street comprises 403 two-bedroom units and one parking spot for each resident. The $78-million complex is located behind the Mesa residential apartments. The two-bedroom units are about 700 square feet. The project includes a café, central mailroom, laundry rooms and meeting areas.

Rendering of San Diego Supercomputer Center expansion.

A $48-million expansion of the San Diego Supercomputer Center is set to open in June 2008. The 80,000-square-foot building project will double the size of the center, adding room for trillions of bytes of data, powerful supercomputers and more than 400 professional staff.

With the existing building and new extension, SDSC will have nearly five megawatts of power – enough wattage to light five million homes – to operate the center and its high-performance computing and data systems.

Chancellor Marye Anne Fox at the groundbreaking ceremony for the North Campus housing.

Officials broke ground Oct. 1 on the $119 million North Campus housing project located north of Eleanor Roosevelt College. Scheduled to open in fall 2009, the new facility will house more than 1,000 transfer students.

The project will include a 14-story high rise as well as several three-story buildings. Students will have access to a café and bookstore. The complex will house a total of 1,800 students once a second phase is completed in fall 2010.

Artist rendering of the Prebys Music Center.

Finally, the Conrad Prebys Music Center is scheduled to open fall 2009 in the heart of campus. The $53-million facility will include a 400-seat concert hall, a black-box theater, a 150-seat lecture and recital hall and a large courtyard that will double as a performance space. The new building will become the home of UCSD’s music department and will serve the university’s educational mission with recording and teaching studios, many practice rooms, a large rehearsal room for orchestra and state-of-the-art computer audio, video and networking technology.