Founders Quadrangle and Coliseum Way
The most formal space on campus and the original center of academic activity, Founders Quadrangle is the green core of the historic east campus. The iconic carillon bell tower dominates the landscape with the Calvin T. Ryan Library, Bruner Hall, Founders Hall, and stately Copeland Hall forming the quadrangle’s enclosure. The space is primarily used as a pass-through rather than a meeting point and there is an abundance of tree planting that serves to reduce the open space rather than frame it. Improvements proposed for this location are intended to make the space more open and versatile, add a hierarchy to the pathway system and make it useable by bicycles, redesign the small space around the bell tower as it interferes with the larger landscape gesture, and create appealing gathering spaces at building entries. Coliseum Way is the location of the former narrow walkway that connected the back of Ryan Library with Cushing Coliseum. The new walk is much wider, tree-lined, and immersed in a linear green space that includes a bio-retention rain garden on the north side of the Fine Arts building. The garden will better manage storm water runoff and create an ecological amenity. Parking to the north of the walk has been reduced to accommodate these changes but all spaces that will be removed are to be replaced in a parking garage proposed in the existing parking lot to the west of Cope Stadium. All existing service access in this area is maintained but the pedestrian walkway and plantings are dominant with curb cuts and service drives secondary to this corridor that will serve everyone on campus.
Existing - Founders Quadrangle
Founders Quadrangle
Proposed - Founders Quadrangle
Bell Tower Plaza
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Chroma Design Inc.
University of Nebraska - Kearney Campus Landscape Master Plan
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