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Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.




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University Buildings

Not only are the world’s youth educated in these buildings, but much of the globe’s most ground-breaking research takes place here. Requirements for housing students are more expansive than ever, but need to be balanced with the university’s real purpose: the pursuit of knowledge. Great design can inspire that pursuit.

University Buildings | Aug 27, 2018

Nebraska’s Midland University receives a new ‘kitchen table’ courtesy KWK Architects

The new gathering space is completed and ready for students returning for fall semester.

University Buildings | Aug 22, 2018

Skanska completes James Madison University’s new dining hall

The three-story building will open for fall semester 2018.

University Buildings | Aug 14, 2018

Following in the Ryan Fieldhouse’s footsteps, Northwestern University’s Walter Athletics Center officially opens

Perkins+Will designed both the Ryan Fieldhouse and the new Walter Athletics Center.

University Buildings | Aug 6, 2018

Academic honors: The importance of residence halls

Three recent projects demonstrate the dynamic role residence halls are playing on America’s college and university campuses.

University Buildings | Jul 30, 2018

University trends 2018: Schools are desperately searching for ways to economize

Though the U.S. economy is strong with investment gains buoying endowments, colleges and universities face pressures to economize and stretch their capital budgets.

Multifamily Housing | Stantec | Jul 13, 2018

Student housing vs. multifamily housing—what are the differences?

While student and multi-family housing share a common building form, it’s the student resident that drives the innovation of new spaces.

University Buildings | Jul 5, 2018

Brown University’s Engineering Research Center increases the university’s School of Engineering lab space by 30%

KieranTimberlake designed the facility and Shawmut Design and Construction was the general contractor.

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