Learn, Work, and Engage
Front Cover: University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Introduction ― 4
Selected Projects ― 8
― Business Schools
Understanding the business of business education
Business schools compete on every front, and their facilities are part of how they win. Strong buildings help them sharpen their programs, deepen ties with the business community, and attract the students, staff, and faculty they want. When a school’s spaces reflect what it actually stands for, that shared identity pulls the whole community together.
Business education in the evolving academic landscape
Business education has always pushed pedagogy forward and driven curricular change. Real-time access to information and interdisciplinary problemsolving are just a few of the forces reshaping how we plan and design spaces for business learning. Today’s students arrive at college with higher expectations than ever, and we firmly believe well-planned learning environments are key to meeting them.
Business Schools
Selected Projects ―
Bowling Green State University, Schmidthorst College of Business Maurer Center Bowling Green, Ohio
Client: Bowling Green State University
Size: 77,880 square feet (7,230 square metres)
Completion Date: 2020
Sustainability: LEED Silver
This study-andcollaboration hub mirrors the modern workplace— and readies students for their careers ahead.
The light-filled atrium encourages a range of interaction; students can connect with peers, faculty, and employers in stadium seating and terraced small-group meetings.
Bowling Green State University, Schmidthorst College of Business Maurer Center
Kent State University, Crawford Hall College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Kent, Ohio
Client: Kent State University
Size: 154,000 square feet (14,300 square metres)
Completion Date: 2024
Sustainability: Targeting LEED Gold and Fitwel Certification
Awards:
Invited Design Competition, Award of Commission
― WHAT IT IS A new college of business designed for an individualized educational journey.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A transformational new college of business and entrepreneurship built on community space, flexible design, and inclusive, accessible planning.
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Durham, North Carolina
Client: Duke University
Size: 240,000 square feet (22,300 square metres)
Completion Date: 1997-2008
― WHAT IT
This long-term relationship spanned programming and master planning to designing three major expansion/renovation projects.
University
of California, Berkeley, Haas
School of Business, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall
Berkeley, California
Client: University of California, Berkeley
Size: 74,000 square feet (6,870 square metres)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability: LEED Platinum, TRUE Platinum ZeroWaste Certified, WELL Silver Certified
A new focal point for the Haas campus, devoted entirely to student learning and interaction.
Chou Hall integrates into the existing fabric of the campus and embraces its unique site topography.
Chou Hall is one of the country’s greenest academic buildings, having earned TRUE Zero Waste certification at the highest possible level along with a LEED Platinum certification for its energy efficient design.
The expansive interior increases Haas’s overall space by a third, adding a courtyard-oriented café and terraces, twelve classrooms, twentyeight breakout rooms, and a 300-person event space on the top floor overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
University of Albany, SUNY, School of Business
Albany, New York
Client: University of Albany, SUNY
Size: 96,000 square feet (8,920 square metres)
Completion Date: 2013
Sustainability: LEED Gold
This hub for commerce and entrepreneurship connects the School’s growing local community with its global partners.
WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The building uses 53% less energy than existing buildings on the campus. Over its lifecycle, this will return millions of dollars to the university in cost savings and spare the planet thousands of pounds of greenhouse gases.
University of Albany, SUNY, School of Business
Clemson University, Watt Family Innovation Center
Clemson, South Carolina
Client: Clemson University
Size: 70,000 square feet (6,500 square metres)
Completion Date: 2016
Sustainability: LEED Silver
Awards:
Merit Award, Built Project, AIA Georgia Design Awards, 2017
Merit Award, AIA South Atlantic Region Design Awards, 2016
IT Infrastructure and Systems, Campus Technology, Innovators Awards, 2016
― WHAT IT IS
The Watt Family Innovation Center (WFIC) is an environment where collaboration between students, faculty, and leaders from industry and government agencies generates ideas and solves complex problems.
The exterior of WFIC incorporates a highperforming glass skin, layered with various forms of electronic display technology (Mediamesh), which provides an interactive experience for both occupants and visitors.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Team rooms enable industry and government partners to work sideby-side with students and faculty to discover new concepts for the marketplace.
Clemson University, Watt Family Innovation Center
Missouri State University, College of Business, Student Success Center
Springfield, Missouri
Client: Missouri State University
Size: 99,000 square feet (9,200 square metres)
new: 38,000 square feet (3,530 square metres)
renovation: 61,000 square feet (5,670 square metres)
Completion Date: 2017
Awards: Public Recognition Award, AIA Springfield, 2018
Partners: Dake Wells Architecture
― WHAT IT IS The Student Success Center includes executive education classrooms, a Think Tank laboratory, a financial markets lab, and a variety of group study areas and multi-purpose meeting rooms.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Glass Hall houses the largest public College of Business in the Midwest, linking regional students to the global world of business.
Missouri State University, College of Business, Student Success Center
University of San Diego, Knauss Center for Business Education
San Diego, California
Client: University of San Diego
Size: 112,000 square feet (10,400 square metres),
new: 84,000 square feet (7,800 square metres),
renovated: 28,000 square feet (2,600 square metres)
Completion Date: 2022
Sustainability: Pursuing LEED Gold
― WHAT IT IS
The collocation of all business school functions into one interactive, engaging, flexible, and social business education complex.
Partnering with leadership, our team pooled resources to drive innovation and inter-organizational learning, designing a new building and integrating an adjacent renovated one into a unified space for business education.
The complex models sustainability and wellbeing through deep connections to nature, daylight, views, and natural ventilation.
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New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York, New York
Client: New York University
Size: 110,000 square feet (10,220 square metres)
Completion Date: 2009
Sustainability: LEED CI Silver
Awards:
Educational Category Honoree, Interior Design Best of Year Commemorative Book, 2011
Collegiate Citation, American School & University
Educational Interiors Showcase, 2010 Best of Year, Merit, IIDA, 2010
― WHAT IT IS By reconfiguring lobbies and entry sequences to emphasize connectedness and transparency, NYU reinvented the image the school presents to the City and broader business community.
Youngstown State University,
Williamson College of Business Administration
Youngstown, Ohio
Client: Youngstown State University
Size: 106,000 square feet (9,850 square metres)
Completion Date: 2010
Sustainability: LEED Gold
― WHAT IT IS
Williamson College of Business Administration set out with a goal to maximize accessibility for business education by integrating scholarship and to serve the local and regional business community.
Youngstown State University, Williamson College of Business Administration
University of Minnesota, Duluth, Labovitz
School of Business and Economics
Duluth, Minnesota
Client: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Size: 67,000 square feet (6,220 square metres)
Completion Date: 2008
Sustainability: LEED NC Gold
Awards:
Citation of Merit, Distinguished Building, AIA Chicago, 2014
― WHAT IT IS Serving as a pilot for the State’s B3 Guidelines for sustainability and energy efficiency, the building exceeded guideline expectations and paved the way for all future State and University projects.
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