The University of Texas at Austin Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building
Located on the northwest side of the UT Austin Campus, the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building (GLT) helps the Cockrell School of Engineering establish a new multidisciplinary approach to the energy sciences. Together with the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), the GLT activates the edge of campus and creates a true hub and […]
Briger Hall, Commons, and Sarofim Pavilion at Princeton University
The project moves the departments of Environmental Studies (ES) and School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) out of their historic, outdated facilities and co-locates them in state-of-the-art buildings where they can conduct ground-breaking research. The new buildings are stitched into the existing campus circulation network to promote connectivity and collaboration with other departments across […]
City University of New York Hunter College Science and Health Professions Building
The proposed building will allow Hunter to locate its related Science and Health Professions programs under one roof in a state-of-the-art art vertical campus for academic research in the biosciences and health profession training. The facility will provide instructors and students with the modern classrooms, laboratories, and cutting-edge equipment they need to continue pushing the […]
Purdue University, Chaney-Hale Hall of Science
Sited in the heart of Purdue University’s campus, the Chaney-Hale Hall of Science houses 33 teaching labs for biology, general chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and chemical engineering. The challenging central campus location is situated at the collision of two busy campus grids. Transparent east and west facades serve as beacons, sponsoring entry points that receive […]
University of Michigan, Biological Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
In an unprecedented coupling of an academic biological science program with a museum of natural history the Michigan Biological Science Building opens up the world of science to the world via the intertwining of the public and the academic sciences. The building was designed to put science on display and encourage collegial interactions between science […]
Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve
https://player.vimeo.com/video/321529960?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 A complex program includes a series of interior and exterior pools for breeding and raising both species mimicking their natural migration into waters of varying size and salinity, as well as facilities dedicated to their research and reintegration to their natural habitat. The project makes the important work of the institution visible to visitors […]
Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center
Our intention is to touch this breathtakingly beautiful and delicate landscape lightly, to minimize the Center’s environmental footprint, in terms of natural systems on site, critical common resources such as electricity and potable water, and maintenance over its life-cycle. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Interdisciplinary, socio-ecological research programs that bring together scientists, intellectuals, artists, indigenous people […]
Bridge for Laboratory Sciences, Vassar College, Integrated Science Commons
https://player.vimeo.com/video/234702925?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 As architects we think about how people experience our buildings. It is important to engage and propel the user along a journey. The curvilinear design creates a sense of discovery as the views unfold – both in to the sciences and out to the landscape. Richard Olcott, Design Partner An outgrowth of a programming […]
City University of New York, Medgar Evers College, Academic Building I
My hope is that the students, faculty, administrators, and visitors who walk through the doors of the new building will find others of like mind. I see educational leaders today increasingly focused on providing opportunities for the intermingling of cross-disciplinary classes and potential avenues for collaboration and exchange. The architecture of this building was designed […]
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
The building responds directly to the collaborative nature of the work that takes place inside, providing an architectural solution to the divergent needs of individual disciplines while bringing them together in innovative ways. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner Two laboratory blocks and a sinuous office ribbon are connected by bridges across a full-height, skylit, publically-accessible atrium. […]