3 considerations for designing healthy, adaptable student dining

Amanda Vigneau, IIDA, NCDIQ, LEED ID+C, Director, Shepley Bulfinch, shares three ways student dining facilities have evolved to match changes in student life.

New science, old buildings: Renovating for efficiency, flexibility, and connection

What does the research space of the future look like? And can it be housed in older buildings—or does it require new construction?

The American University in Cairo launches a 270,000-sf expansion of its campus in New Cairo, Egypt

In New Cairo, Egypt, The American University in Cairo (AUC) has broken ground on a roughly 270,000-sf expansion of its campus. The project encompasses two new buildings intended to enhance the physical campus and support AUC’s mission to provide top-tier education and research.

University Buildings

UC Riverside’s new School of Medicine building supports team-based learning, showcases passive design strategies

The University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine has opened the 94,576-sf, five-floor Education Building II (EDII). Created by the design-build team of CO Architects and Hensel Phelps, the medical school’s new home supports team-based student learning, offers social spaces, and provides departmental offices for faculty and staff.

Mar 14, 2012

Tsoi/Kobus and Centerbrook to design Jackson Laboratory facility in Farmington, Conn.

Building will house research into personalized, gene-based cancer screening and treatment.

Site constraints led to the configuration of the building as a continuous ribbon

Mar 6, 2012

EwingCole completes first design-build project for the USMA

The second phase of the project, which includes the academic buildings and the lacrosse and football fields, was completed in January 2012.

JJCs Facility Services Building is part of a $220 million master plan aimed at

Mar 6, 2012

Joliet Junior College achieves LEED Gold

With construction managed by Gilbane Building Company, Joliet Junior College’s Facility Services Building combines high-performance technologies with sustainable materials to meet aggressive energy efficiency goals.

The CornellNYC Tech campus, which will house the Technion-Cornell Innovation Ins

Mar 1, 2012

Cornell shortlists six architectural firms for first building on tech campus

Each of the firms will be asked to assemble a team of consultants and prepare for an interview to discuss their team’s capabilities to successfully design the university’s project.

A rendering of the new 122,000-sf Library & Learning Commons at Salem State Univ

Feb 28, 2012

Salem State University Library & Learning Commons topped off

When it opens to students in the fall of 2013, the $60 million facility will offer new archival space; circulation and reference areas; collections; reading spaces; study rooms; instruction labs and a Dean’s suite.