Facilities
PHOTOS © 2012 JONATHAN HILLYER
C AMPUS SPACES
Restored
and Rehabilitated
The University of North Georgia's Gaillard Hall is rare example
of intergenerational architectural work.
B
ACK IN THE EARLY 1950s,
when Atlanta architect Richard L.
Aeck stood with his four-year-old
son Tony on a reviewing stand overlooking
North Georgia College's revered drill field at
the center of campus in Dahlonega, GA, he
could not have known that the military barracks he was designing for a site opposite the
stand would some 60 years later be restored
and rehabilitated by the descendant architecture firm to his own Aeck Associates.
Now an architect himself and chairman
of Lord, Aeck & Sargent (LAS), Tony Aeck
64
has seen the firm transform and prepare
the international style military dormitory
his father designed — Gaillard Hall — for
another half-century of life.
The $5.6M Gaillard Hall restoration/
rehabilitation marks the fi nal project
in a $69.85M, two-phase public/private
venture that included six additional new
structures and a cadet formation plaza, all
designed by LAS. Gaillard Hall and two of
the new residential buildings — Patriot
Hall and Liberty Hall — are organized
around the formation plaza to create a
COLLEGE PLANNING & MANAGEMENT / MARCH 2013
military education precinct in the heart of
the campus of what is now the University
of North Georgia. Nestled in the foothills
of the Appalachian Mountains, the University is one of only six senior military
colleges in the U.S.
The University of North Georgia (UNG)
was formed through the consolidation of
North Georgia College & State University
and Gainesville State College, two of the
top-performing schools in the University
System of Georgia, in January of this year.
Positioned in the fastest-growing region of
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