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

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.

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.

Student Housing

Construction begins on Auburn University’s new first-year residence hall

The new first-year residence hall along Auburn University's Haley Concourse.

University Buildings

Columbia University to begin construction on New York City’s first all-electric academic research building

Columbia University will soon begin construction on New York City’s first all-electric academic research building. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the 80,700-sf building for the university’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons will provide eight floors of biomedical research and lab facilities as well as symposium and community engagement spaces.

A rendering of the front of the new Blinn College residence hall

University Buildings | Sep 15, 2017

New Blinn College Residence Hall hopes to decrease the size of the campus housing wait list

In 2016, more than 400 students were placed on the wait list due to lack of available on-campus housing.

Lighting hanging from a double-height lobby space in the Rohrer College of Business facility

University Buildings | Sep 5, 2017

Rohrer College of Business supports the schools academic programs with several key spaces

Designed by KSS Architects and Goody Clancy, the new facility opened prior to the fall 2017 school year.

Rendering of the Berggruen Institute on its hilltop site

Higher Education | Aug 31, 2017

Hilltop L.A. campus preserves over 90% of its 447-acre site as open space

The Los Angeles campus is being built at a site in the eastern portion of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The exterior of the new Recreation and Student Center

University Buildings | Aug 28, 2017

Just what the doctor ordered: St. Louis College of Pharmacy receives new student center

The $50 million building adds over 193,000 sf of space to the campus.

Students sit around a fire at a campus student center

University Buildings | HMC Architects | Aug 8, 2017

Student center(ed): Is the student union the key to retention?

Studies indicate that the longer a student remains on campus—and in an academic mindset—the greater their chance for academic growth and success.

One of the corridors with student meeting space in the new Health Education Building

Healthcare Facilities | Aug 8, 2017

Kansas’ only medical school receives new 171,000-sf building

The building was designed to enhance the medical campus’ existing facilities, curriculum, and classrooms.

This infographic by Shepley Bulfinch reveals key findings from the firm's study of university and college laboratory buildings.

Laboratories | Shepley Bulfinch | Aug 3, 2017

Today’s university lab building by the numbers

A three-month study of science facilities conducted by Shepley Bulfinch reveals key findings related to space allocation, size, and cost.

Higher Education | Jul 24, 2017

The renovation of the business school at St. John’s University looks to keep up with the Joneses

A nearly 40-year-old space is opened up and modernized.

University Buildings | Jun 29, 2017

Duke University’s new alumni and visitors center is a ‘modern adaptation of the campus’ architectural style’

The project will total about 47,000 sf of new construction and renovations.

Sustainability | Jun 28, 2017

Mohawk College will have one of the region’s first net-zero energy institutional buildings

The project’s net-zero goals led to the development of a new curtain wall system.

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