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Regents approve ‘Design Village’ vision to replace costly architecture renovation
Summary
The Board of Regents approved moving forward from a renovation plan for the Tommy J. Huckabee Architecture Building to a new interdisciplinary ‘Design Village’ on central campus, authorizing stage‑1 design services and roughly $3.0 million in planning funds to be paid from Higher Education Funds and gifts.
The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents on Thursday authorized a new vision to replace a planned renovation of the Tommy J. Huckabee College of Architecture building with a consolidated “Design Village” that will house architecture and several allied programs.
The board approved an amendment to the design professional agreement and authorized about $3,000,000 in stage‑1 planning and design expenditures, to be funded with Higher Education Funds (HEF), gifts and revenue financing mechanisms. The motion passed with the committee’s unanimous voice vote.
Former board chairman Chris Huckabee, who led the presentation of the idea, told regents that after an extensive evaluation the current 1970 architecture building would cost “more than a hundred million dollars” to renovate for modern academic use. Huckabee said his team scanned the building, built a model and concluded a retrofit would be functionally infeasible and economically unwise. “This building was built in 1970,” he said. “When we finished and built it…
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