Yale Plans New Lab

The Yale Corporation yesterday approved preliminary designs for the new $5,000,000 physics building which will provide almost three times as much space as is now available for teaching and research in this science.

In addition, architects Douglas Orr and Eero Saarinen and associates have been authorized to prepare working plans for the structure which will be contemporary in design. It will be located on a hilltop of the Pierson-Sage Square to the rear of the present Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, in the vicinity of Sachem and Prospect Streets.

A model of the proposed new physics building will be placed on exhibition at the meeting of alumni who will convene at Yale this weekend to celebrate the university's 250th anniversary.

No date has been set for starting construction on the physics building. A fund-raising campaign for the $5,000,000 building is already under way.