Bjarke Ingels Group designs a mass timber cube structure for the University of Kansas

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and executive architect BNIM have unveiled their design for a new mass timber cube structure called the Makers’ KUbe for the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. A six-story, 50,000-sf building for learning and collaboration, the light-filled KUbe will house studio and teaching space, 3D-printing and robotic labs, and a ground-level cafe, all organized around a central core.

ProConnect Events

5 more ProConnect events scheduled for 2024, including all-new 'AEC Giants'

SGC Horizon present 7 ProConnect events in 2024.

School Construction

A school district in Utah aggressively moves forward on modernizing its schools

Two new high schools manifest nuanced design differences.

Student Housing

Student housing partnership gives residents free mental health support

Text-based mental health support app Counslr has partnered with Aptitude Development to provide free mental health support to residents of student housing locations.

Education Facilities

Apr 25, 2013

Colorado State University, DLR Group team to study 12 high-performance schools

DLR Group and the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University have collaborated on a research project to evaluate the effect of green school design on occupants and long-term building performance.

Apr 24, 2013

North Carolina bill would ban green rating systems that put state lumber industry at disadvantage

North Carolina lawmakers have introduced state legislation that would restrict the use of national green building rating programs, including LEED, on public projects.

Apr 24, 2013

Los Angeles may add cool roofs to its building code

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants cool roofs added to the city’s building code. He is also asking the Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to create incentives that make it financially attractive for homeowners to install cool roofs.

Charles David Keeling Apartments, La Jolla, Calif., by KieranTimberlake. Photo:

Apr 22, 2013

Top 10 green building projects for 2013 [slideshow]

The AIA's Committee on the Environment selected its top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment.

Apr 19, 2013

7 hip high-rise developments on the drawing board

Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill's whimsical Dancing Dragons tower in Seoul is among the compelling high-rise projects in the works across the globe.

BD+C Staff | Apr 12, 2013

Gaige Building at Penn State certified LEED Gold

Alvin H. Butz, Inc. recently completed a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®)…

A view of the new medical school from Main Street (Rendering by HOK)

Apr 10, 2013

First look: University at Buffalo's downtown medical school by HOK

The University at Buffalo (UB) has unveiled HOK's dramatic design for its new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.