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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.

Nov 20, 2012

PC Construction completes Juniper Hall at Champlain College

Juniper Hall is on track for LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Nov 13, 2012

Have colleges + universities gone too far with "Quality of Life" buildings?

We'd like your input - recent projects, photo/s, renderings, and expert insight - on an important article we're working on for our Jan 2013 issue

Rob Cassidy | Nov 12, 2012

Have colleges/universities gone too far with "quality of life" buildings?

We'd like your input - recent projects, photo/s, renderings, and expert insight - on an important…
Nov 11, 2012

Greenbuild 2012 Report: Higher Education

More and more colleges and universities see sustainainably designed buildings as a given

Oct 30, 2012

Lord, Aeck & Sargent announces four student life facility wins

Projects recognize the architecture firm’s expertise on a nationwide basis.

Oct 4, 2012

2012 Reconstruction Awards Gold Winner: Wake Forest Biotech Place, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Reconstruction centered on Building 91.1, a historic (1937) five-story former machine shop, with its distinctive façade of glass blocks, many of which were damaged. The Building Team repointed, relocated, or replaced 65,869 glass blocks.

Sep 19, 2012

Modular, LEED-Gold Certified Dormitory Accommodates Appalachian State University Growth

By using modular construction, the university was able to open a dorm a full year earlier than a similar dorm built at the same time with traditional construction.

Sep 6, 2012

CPPI awarded $30.3 million contract for University of Florida’s Harrell Medical Education Building

The specialized interdisciplinary learning environment will serve as a focal point for integration and program development for all primary care educational activities in the College of Medicine.

Sep 5, 2012

Skanska tops out residence hall complex at the University of Delaware

Construction firm achieves structural milestone for $71 million student housing expansion project.

Aug 30, 2012

John S Clark Co. completes teaching lab at UNC Wilmington

Three-story building provides offices, classrooms, and labs.

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