The ubiquitous construction fencing and sporadic drill-and-hammer din are among the obvious signs of continued expansion throughout the Stanford campus. But it can be difficult to picture just how sweeping the footprints of the latest evolution will be. The best view for that is aerial, as illustrated by this photograph taken in February showing steady progress at the Knight Management Center, the eight-building campus for the Graduate School of Business.
The center will include three quadrangles and encompass about 360,000 square feet—100,000 more than current Business School facilities provide. The estimated completion date is April 2011.
By then, if all goes as planned, there will have been openings and major advances for other University projects. Two are scheduled for completion in the first quarter of this year: the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, the new home of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, a technologically sophisticated education and training facility for the School of Medicine. The end of the year should see the finish of the new Law School clinics and faculty office building.
Further down the road, to name just two other examples: Thirty-nine faculty homes, on Stanford Avenue near Palo Alto's College Terrace neighborhood, should be ready in the spring of 2011, and the Bing Concert Hall is to break ground later this year and open by summer 2012.
