ArchShowcase Archive for the ‘University Building’ CategoryButler College Dormitories in Princeton, United States by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLPFriday, September 18th, 2020Article source: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP With its undulating brick facade, landscaped courtyards, and generous public walkway, Butler College connects with Princeton’s rich Collegiate Gothic tradition in a fresh and lively way.  Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP
Marion Anderson Hall | UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLPMonday, August 17th, 2020Article source: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP This addition to the original Anderson School complex creates a bold campus presence that reimagines UCLA’s traditional four-color blended brick and buff-colored cast-stone masonry banding. Transforming a condition long considered an unsightly barrier between the school and the core campus, the design sites the building atop an existing parking structure east of the original complex, framing a new pedestrian plaza and cascading grand stair to the south. The result is a new primary entrance to the school that also serves as a dramatic gateway to UCLA’s North Campus.  Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP
Tata Hall for the Sciences in San Diego, California by CO ArchitectsFriday, June 19th, 2020Article source: CO Architects Program: The new construction includes four floors of biology and chemistry research facilities, two floors of biology and chemistry teaching labs, a below‐grade nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy lab, and a 175‐seat auditorium.  Image Courtesy © Bill Timmerman
Key Worker Housing University of Cambridge in England by mecanooFriday, June 19th, 2020Article source: mecanoo The North West Cambridge Development (NWCD) transforms a 150-hectare site of University of Cambridge farmland into a community with residential buildings, academic facilities, public amenities and open green space. Mecanoo worked alongside NWCD to deliver 232 affordable housing units for researchers and key university employees.  Image Courtesy © Greg Holmes
Middle East Technical Universtiy Coworking & Cafeteria in Ankara, Turkey by Yazgan Design ArchitectureSunday, April 26th, 2020Article source: Yazgan Design Architecture The project is a cafeteria and co-working space which is designed for Middle East Technical University within the large campus area in Ankara, Turkey. The purpose is to create a high-quality platform for the possibility of interaction, collective and collaborative working amongst the students and academicians. Given that the site location of the project is in close proximity to the research development areas of the university, the building is imagined to become an incubator and support the activities of researchers. By working for 24 hours, the co-working space offers a different ground for the campus rather than another institution. The primary design issues stem from the wish to integrate nature into architecture through passive and active systems and variety of architectural elements.  Image Courtesy © Yazgan Design Architecture
Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and the College of Fine Arts Production Center in Boston, Massachusetts by Elkus Manfredi ArchitectsThursday, March 19th, 2020Article source: Elkus Manfredi Architects This multifunctional studio theatre with production and support spaces provides Boston University’s internationally acclaimed School of Theatre with a 21st-century learning environment for collaboration and experimentation. Collocated on BU’s Charles River Campus with the rest of the College of Fine Arts for the first time in decades, the theatre creates a new era of engagement for the University community, the Town of Brookline, and area residents. With its dramatically reflective façade framed by a delicate concrete scrim, the 75,000-square-foot theatre complex delights and instructs, giving architectural form to Hamlet’s injunction to the players “to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature.”  A dramatic presence on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University’s Booth Theatre provides a 21st-century learning environment for collaboration and experimentation with its multifunctional studio theatre and production center. Hosting the newly collocated theatre arts program, the new center is enveloped in a first-of-its-kind pre-cast concrete scrim that evokes the frame of a proscenium theatre, while the lobby’s mirror-like 47-foot glass curtainwall cants forward 14 degrees, reflecting the city scene, Image Courtesy © Robert Benson
Bridge Hall Apartment in Sarasota, Florida by Ayers Saint GrossWednesday, March 11th, 2020Article source: Ayers Saint Gross In response to increased enrollment and a desire to foster a close-knit community, Ringling College of Art and Design wanted to add on-campus housing capacity. After completing Ringling’s campus master plan, Ayers Saint Gross designed a contemporary residence hall with apartment-style units for upperclass students. Siting was crucial to its success, and the result is a beautiful and functional connection between the urban edge of campus and the adjacent Whitaker Bayou. The location links the new residence hall to the rest of campus via an arts walk, a key element of the master plan. The project introduces new urbanism principles to campus with a well-defined street edge and activates a previously underutilized area.  Bridge Hall is inspired by an Old-World Floridian Estate or Hotel, Image Courtesy © Tom Holdsworth
Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands by Neutelings Riedijk ArchitectenFriday, February 28th, 2020Article source: Neutelings Riedijk Architecten Naturalis is the national research institute for biodiversity dating from 1820 which was founded by King Willem I in Leiden, The Netherlands. The institute with a long and rich history experienced an exponential growth in the last decade which led to an urgent necessity to renovate. The number of visitors increased rapidly to 400.000 per year. The new future proof Naturalis brings the growing collection of 42 million objects together (top five in the world). Its new state of the art facilities accommodate more than two hundred researchers whose studies are at the center of attention, contributing solutions to global issues including climate change, the decline of biodiversity on earth, food supply and water quality. The Naturalis facilities and the collection enable to contribute solutions at the highest level. At the same time the new museum offers the chance to show the public the wealth and beauty of nature.  Exterior-nightview, Image Courtesy © ScagliolaBrakkee / Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Law Faculty Université in Paris, France by ChartierDalix architectesTuesday, February 25th, 2020Article source: ChartierDalix architectes Building a city on a city” has long been the standard approach to urban renewal. Our modernityhas largely ignored and further complicated this practice that is now coming back all the more strongly due to the economic realities of construction being challenged by the severity of environmental issues. Rehabilitating and preserving existing buildings, even over and above considerations of heritage, is becoming a viable means of saving energy and sobriety, a source of reusable materials and a great opportunity to discover new uses resulting from conversion. Entering a building with its past life and its history, its previous uses, means imagining new stories to tell based on older tales and the richness of their promise. That is why we like to use the term “Metamorphosis” rather than rehabilitation: for us, it means building on the old to create something new and richer still than what might have been preserved.  Image Courtesy © Takuji Shimmura
Chinese University of Hong Kong campus in Shenzhen, China by Rocco Design Architects AssociatesSunday, February 16th, 2020Article source: Rocco Design Architects Associates The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK SZ) brings the global perspective and academic excellence to the city Shenzhen – China’s rapidly-growing innovation and tech hub. Situated in the natural reserve area of Tong Gu Hill, the campus houses multiple teaching and research facilities, student residences, administrative offices, and recreation facilities that serve 7000 students. Rocco Design Architects Associates developed a masterplan and comprehensive design that not only serves the needs of faculty, students, and staff, but also creates a sustainable, community-oriented learning environment that reflects the dynamic and collaborative spirit of Shenzhen.  Image Courtesy © Chao Zhang
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