Campus Center
Building Community:
The Smith Campus Center
From the outset, the campus center
was viewed as a vital new part of the Smith
experience embodied in dramatic and flexible
space.
The new Center includes a campus
information desk to help faculty, staff, and
visitors; meeting and program spaces, the Grecourt
Bookshop, lockers, vending machines, an ATM,
bulletin boards, copy machines, a mail center,
Internet connections, several lounge spaces,
a game room, offices for student organizations,
and a cafe with coffee bar. 
A long, curved, sky-lit gallery
that extends the entire length of the building
forms the heart of the design. The café
spills out to an amphitheater of steps that
faces a newly configured Chapin Lawn and beyond.
The wood-paneled main lounge has a central fireplace
and offers spectacular views of Paradise Pond
and the Conservatory through its two-story glass
wall.
The
upper level, with its grand wood-lined performance
space, includes meeting places and offices for
student organizations.
The bookstore, mail center, game
room and garden lounge make up the lower level.
Visit
the Campus Center website
The Kresge Challenge
to Smith
The campus center has been distinguished
by a $1 million challenge grant from the
prestigious Kresge Foundation. The grant
recognizes the community-building potential
of the campus center.
As of May 13, $14.85 million of the $22.5
million project cost has been committed.
Smith seeks $5 million in gifts from alumnae,
students, parents, faculty, staff, and
friends in order to claim the $1million
grant from the Kresge Foundation that
will complete funding. |
