Learn, Work, and Engage
Front Cover: University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Introduction ― 4
Selected Projects ― 8
― Business Schools
Understanding the business
The business of business schools is very competitive. Business schools maximize their edge in program development, business community relationships, and recruitment of new students, staff, and faculty through the quality of their facilities. Thoughtful alignment of the institution’s values with the character and quality of its physical environment unifies the collective vision and creates a more cohesive community.
Business education in the evolving academic landscape.
Business education has always been at the forefront of pedagogical innovation and a vehicle for curricula change. Real-time access to information and interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving are a few aspects that continually alter the way we think about planning and designing environments for business education. Today’s digital generation enters the world of higher education with unprecedented expectations. We firmly believe properly planned learning environments are key to meeting these expectations.
― Business Schools
Selected Projects
Bowling Green State University, Schmidthorst College of Business Maurer Center
Bowling Green, Ohio
Client: Bowling Green State University
Size: 77,882 square feet (7,235 square meters)
Completion Date: 2020
Sustainability: LEED Silver ®
― WHAT IT IS
Supporting a new era of business education, this incubator for study and collaboration resembles the modern workplace and prepares students for real-world careers.
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
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.
Transformational new college of business and entrepreneurship that embraces community space and multi-purpose resiliency through inclusive and accessible planning.
Kent State University, College of Business Administration
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Durham, North Carolina
Client: Duke University
Size: 240,000 square feet (22,297 square meters)
Completion Date: 1997-2008
― WHAT IT IS
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
Client: University of California, Berkeley
Size: 74,000 square feet (6,875 square meters)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability:
Berkeley, California ― WHAT IT IS Chou Hall represents a new focal point for the Haas campus and is devoted entirely to student learning and interaction, where classroom and digital learning work together to foster community.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Chou Hall is the country’s greenest academic building, having earned TRUE Zero Waste certification at the highest possible level along with a LEED Platinum certification for its energy efficient design.
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Chou Hall
University of Albany, SUNY, School of Business
Albany, New York
Client: University of Albany, SUNY
Size: 96,000 square feet (8,918 square meters)
Completion Date: 2013
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
― WHAT IT IS
Set on a Modernist campus, this hub of innovative learning in commerce and entrepreneurship engages the School’s growing local community and 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 (6,503 square meters)
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
The 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 (9,917 square meters)
new: 38,000 square feet (3,530 square meters)
renovation: 61,000 square feet (5,670 square meters)
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: 84,00 square feet (new), 28,000 square feet (reno)
Completion Date: 2022
Sustainability: Pursuing LEED Gold
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WHAT IT IS
The collocation of all business school functions into one interactive, engaging, flexible, and social business education complex.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Centered around ethical leadership in sustainable business, the complex breathes a model of sustainability and wellbeing through a deep connection with nature, pattern, daylight, views, and natural ventilation.
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Client: New York University
Size: 110,000 square feet (10,219 square meters)
Completion Date: 2009
Sustainability: LEED CI Silver ®
Awards:
Educational Category Honoree, Interior Design Best of Year Commemorative Book, 2011
Collegiate Citation, American School & University
New York, New York ―
Educational Interiors Showcase, 2010 Best of Year, Merit, IIDA, 2010
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 (9,848 square meters)
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 (6,225 square meters)
Completion Date: 2008
Sustainability: LEED NC Gold ®
Awards:
Citation of Merit, Distinguished Building, AIA, Chicago Chapter, 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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