Higher Education
Left: Salah M. Hassan. Courtesy of Cornell University. Photo by Jason Koski. Centre: Hoor Al Qasimi. Photo by Sebastian Böttcher. Right: Sir David Adjaye OBE, Founder of Adjaye Associates © Chris Schwagga.
The campus design will be unveiled on Oct. 8.
North Flats, Austin College's newest student housing building, houses 130 students. Images: Courtesy KWA Construction
KWA Construction built the school’s new residence hall, nearly 10 years after its first student...
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CO Architects worked with Frederic Zernhausern, a professor at the University of Arizona, to fit out a half-floor of a building on campus. Custom labs designed to the specifications of star researchers help research universities attract and retain valued talent. Image: Bill Timmerman
CO Architects is among a handful of firms that caters to this trend.
Among the infection-control protocols that Shawmut Design and Construction rolled out on the Brown University project is Shawmut Vitals, which allows workers to self-certify daily health screenings by scanning a job-specific QR code. Image: Shawmut
The facility, scheduled for completion next April, will combine a residence hall with student h...
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SmithGroup’s Campus Strategy & Analytics team uses a variety of mapping tools to demonstrate space distribution for higher education institutions. This type of map shows the location and density of a particular space type found within buildings across a campus. Building footprints were extruded vertically based on the amount of assignable square feet (ASF), or density, of that space type in the building. Image: SmithGroup
Its service provides schools with a growth strategy, based on current and future needs.
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Carisima Koenig, AIA, brings >20 years' experience to her new post at Perkins Eastman's NY headquarters.
Perkins Eastman as Associate Higher Education Practice Leader
The University of Michigan’s Biological Sciences Building (at left) puts science on display. Its exterior cladding is made from terra cotta strips whose colors mesh with other buildings on campus. Design by Ennead Architects and SmithGroup. Photo Bruce Damonte
The science and technology (S+T) sector is arguably the industry’s most complex because it caters...
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The renovation of Thigpen Hall on the campus of Alabama A&M University included a complete makeover of the residential hall's ceilings, bathrooms, and flooring. Image: Turner Construction
This is the latest of numerous projects in Huntsville that the GC has engaged over the past 65 ye...
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Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union at San Diego State University. Photo: Pixabay
Using RSMeans data from Gordian, here are the most recent costs per square foot of college studen...
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All Photos: Tim Griffith
LMN Architects designed the facility.
The project will renovate three buildings and build another from the ground up.
Courtesy Stantec
Stantec is designing the project.
The Morningstar solar house is one of the features at Penn State's Sustainability Experience Center, where the university is contemplating a permanent structure for classrooms, research labs, and offices that would be built to Living Building Challenge standards. Image: Patrick Mansell
The university, encompassing 13 colleges and 24 campuses, adheres to protocols established by the...
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CO Architects designed the facility.
Rendering courtesy of KWK Architects
The units will house juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
Boston University's Goldman School of Dental Medicine will increase its clinical space by 60% through a renovation and addition that are being conducted while the school stays open and continues to offer its services to students and the community. Image: SmithGroupjjr
A major renovation and addition are scheduled to minimize operational disruption.
Pictured: The efficiency unit design for the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (left); research prototype by Perkins+Will (right)
A growing number of public and private academic institutions are turning to designers and archite...
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The 96,000-sf Merrill Place, a residence hall on the 170-acre campus of Plymouth (N.H.) State University, will convert its student rooms to hotel rooms during the summer. Image: (c) Anton Grassl
The opening of a new residence hall could help with Plymouth State University’s hospitality marke...
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One of the ways in which we are already seeing the use of AR is as an improvement on typical curr...
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Colorado State University's 121,600-sf Behavioral Sciences Building in Fort Collins is one of the many higher education projects that Bennett Wagner Grody has worked on. Image: BWG
Future mergers could be in the offing.
A building is much more than its appearance; it’s how the user will behave inside of it that dete...
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A rendering of the Innovation Complex in Providence, R.I., which broke ground last month. The 191,000-sf complex is the latest “knowledge community”—and the second in Providence—to be developed by Wexford Science + Technology. Image: Wexford
The campus is expected to include an Aloft hotel.
Recognizing that the future health of the campus and lake are interdependent, this innovative app...
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Rendering courtesy of Servitas.
In 2016, more than 400 students were placed on the wait list due to lack of available on-campus h...
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Photo: Halkin Mason, Courtesy KSS Architects.
Designed by KSS Architects and Goody Clancy, the new facility opened prior to the fall 2017 schoo...
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Rendering courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
The Los Angeles campus is being built at a site in the eastern portion of the Santa Monica Mounta...
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Photo: St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
The $50 million building adds over 193,000 sf of space to the campus.
Photo: Lawrence Anderson
Studies indicate that the longer a student remains on campus—and in an academic mindset—the great...
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Photo courtesy of KUMC
The building was designed to enhance the medical campus’ existing facilities, curriculum, and cla...
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