GDI
Commercial Dry wall, Inc.
Craftsman
Vol. 4 No. 10
August 1983 |
Herring Hall
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As a tribute to business and community leader, Robert R. Herring (1921-1981), Rice University is constructing the new Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration in his name. Robert Herring was chairman and chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas Corporation and was an avid supporter of the Rice University's graduate business school. Herring Hall was designed by Cesar Pelli, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, to harmonize with the early Rice University buildings in a Mediterranean gothic style. Pelli also designed the Four Leaf Condominium project in west Houston. The early campus buildings, designed in 1910, have long and narrow dimensions as will the new building. It will be nestled in a grove of live oak trees. Its exterior finish will
be of salmon red brick with limestone and terra cotta details. The roof will be of red terra cotta tiles and one wing is to be topped with copper vaults. CDI’s work on Herring Hall is to commence about September 15. Under supervisor Bobby Cocran. CDI is doing all the drywall as well as furnishing column covers of fiberglass reinforced gypsum. CDI was also awarded the paint contract for Herring Hall. The building is designed such that two wings of Herring Hall overlap and connect to the main building by way of an open arcade providing for an outdoor courtyard to be utilized for social functions. The ground floor of the building will house classrooms including four case rooms with terraced floors. A 7,000 square foot reading room with a two-story vaulted ceiling will be located in one wing. The smaller
wing will add a 250-seat lecture hall and projector room to the building. "The project will be challenging for us,” says CDI estimator/project manager Mike Holland. “There will be a great deal of sheetrocked ceilings and the building is situated in a very tight space between the trees on campus." The paint portion of the project will include all the paint, wall coverings and staining of the wood trim. “The most challenging aspect of the job for our painters will be hanging a wall covering, which is being specially designed by the architect, on the high vaulted reading room ceiling,” says Winn Martin, who handled the paint estimate for CDI. General contractor for the Herring Hall project is Mayan Construction Inc. of Houston. In addition to this project, CDI will soon be starting Greenpark I for Mayan and worked (see Herring Hall, page 8)