Higher Education
Prep spaces in Niagara County Community College’s Niagara Falls Culinary Institute provide future chefs with experience needed to operate foodservice venues. The institute is housed in a converted shopping mall. Photo: Tim Wilkes Photography
With capital budgets strained, renovation may be an increasingly attractive money-saving option f...
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The west entrance of the main campus of the University of Kansas with the Chi Omega Fountain. Photo: Quasselkasper via Wikimedia Commons
The P3 concept is getting a tryout at the University of Kansas, where state funding for construct...
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The National September 11 Memorial Museum incorporates evocative artifacts of the destroyed Twin Towers, including the "Last Column" (pictured). It was honored with a Gold Award in BD+C's 2015 Building Team Awards. Photo: Jin Lee / courtesy 9/11 Memorial Museum
From Lean construction to tri-party IPD to advanced BIM/VDC coordination, these 14 Building Teams...
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The new arts venue at Virginia Tech is the ninth building on campus to be LEED-certified. Jeff Goldberg/Esto Photographics Inc.
The STV-led Building Team creates a world-class performance and arts venue with learning and entr...
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Among the building’s student life functions is a bistro-style cafe and lounge with views of the central campus green. Photos: Mark Ballogg
In dire need of modern science labs and a student union, North Park University built both—in the...
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Using Grasshopper modeling software, the team for Oregon State University's Johnson Hall, led by SRG Partnership, built a virtual model that could be quickly manipulated. Renderings: SRG Partnership
SRG Partnership's Scott Mooney describes how Grasshopper, Diva, Rhino, and 3D printing were utili...
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UNLV Campus master plan. Rendering: SmithGroupJJR
In the coming years, urban colleges and universities will outperform their non-urban peers, bolst...
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Mission Branch Library, San Antonio, designed by Muñoz and Company. Photo: Chris Cooper/Luis M. Garza
The new Cedar Rapids Public Library and the restored Slover Library in Norfolk, Va., are among si...
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IBM Watson immersion room and interactive video wall. Image: The Switzer Group
The new headquarters for the former Jeopardy champ was conceived as a showcase for Watson’s capab...
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The campus’ lower floors will be open public space shared with the neighborhood, while the upper floors are used exclusively by the institute. Renderings courtesy Ronald Lu & Partners
The project's twin-tower design opens the campus up to the neighboring public green space, while...
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The Vanderbilt Medical Center at One Hundred Oaks Mall transformed a former 1960s-era indoor shopping mall in Nashville, Tenn., into a mixed-use medical office center for Vanderbilt University. Photo courtesy Vanderbilt University
Approximately one-third of the country’s 1,200 enclosed malls are dead or dying. The good news is...
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The Illinois Institute of Technology's Main Building is among the city buildings at the highest risk of being lost to demolition or decay, according to the group Preservation Chicago. All photos provided by Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago
Preservation Chicago released its annual list of historic buildings that are at risk of being dem...
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The three-story, 58,000-sf Pennovation Center, as it’s being called, will be at the heart of Pennovation Works, a blend of offices, labs, and production spaces situated within 23 acres along the Schuykill River and adjacent to the university’s main campus in Philadelphia. Renderings courtesy HWKN
The new Pennovation Center will provide collaborative and research spaces for educators, scientis...
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Antinori Winter by Archea Associati in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Florence, Italy. Photo by Pietro Savorelli
Bjarke Ingels' Danish Maritime Museum and the Ravensburg Art Museum by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei...
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The ‘digital-native’ generation has developed unique modes of assimilating and comprehending information. Learning space design has evolved alongside these changes. Photo courtesy Perkins+Will
In response to rapidly changing conditions in K-12 and higher education, institutions and school...
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A Steelcase study recently published in The Harvard Business Review found that “98% of the most highly engaged employees reported that they had ‘the ability to concentrate easily’ in their workplace and that this attribute is a top factor in their satisfaction.” Photo: Phil Whitehouse, Flickr CC
Recent work style studies show that the average knowledge worker spends 25-35% of their time doin...
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Security experts contend that camera surveillance loses its effectiveness if the images are not continuously monitored, as shown here in the University of Pennsylvania’s public safety command center. Penn is experimenting with using cameras to remotely identify people entering buildings. Photo: John Caulfield, BD+C
In 1996, the University of Pennsylvania’s sprawling campus in Philadelphia was in the grip of an...
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Card-swipe technology has become a popular security feature on most campuses. Colleges usually require users to punch in a PIN code to enter a building or transverse a secure space. Photo: John Caulfield, BD+C
Seven years after the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, colleges and universities continue to shak...
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For the University of California–San Diego’s Health Sciences 2 Research Laboratory Building, ZGF Architects used a mix of lighting techniques to enhance safety. Occupancy sensors control lighting use in labs and offices. The ground-floor lobby is on a timer so that it can be illuminated at night. Photo: Nick Merrick © Hedrich Blessing
Campus crime—whether real or perceived—presents Building Teams with more opportunities for early-...
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Photo credit: Mikkel Frost
Copenhagen, Berlin, and Rotterdam are the cities where most of the shortlisted works have been bu...
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As part of its pledge to environmentally sound practices, real estate investment trust Macerich i...
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The new College Avenue Commons at Arizona State University. Image © Bill Timmerman
Just as urban housing fits into the city as a whole, student housing can be integrated into the c...
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The state-of-the art Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center successfully fuses the university’s time-h...
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There are two proposed sites for the plan, both owned by the Chicago Park District in Chicago’s S...
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The plan by Snøhetta and WCIT Architecture features a building that appears square from the outsi...
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Construction consultant FMI foresees—with some caveats—continuing growth in the office, lodging,...
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The 40,000-sf library is equipped with four “cones of light,” spherical reflectors made from extr...
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A study by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that prefab approaches on the ne...
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The award brings the campus total for LEED certifications through the U.S. Green Building Council...
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This month's increase in nonresidential construction spending is far more consistent with the ane...
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