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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.

Aug 7, 2012

Pioneering revival

Financial setbacks didn’t stop this Building Team from transforming the country’s first women’s medical school into a new home for college students.

Aug 7, 2012

Shedding light on the arts

Renovating Pietro Belluschi’s Juilliard School opens the once-cloistered institution to its Upper West Side community.

Aug 7, 2012

McCarthy tops out LEED Platinum-designed UCSD Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility

New laboratory will enable UCSD to recruit and accommodate preeminent faculty.

Jul 25, 2012

KBE Building renovates UConn dining hall

Construction for McMahon Dining Hall will be completed in September 2012.

Jul 24, 2012

Military Housing firm announces expansion into student housing

The company has partnered with the military to build, renovate and manage nearly 21,000 homes with more than 65,000 bedrooms, situated on more than 10,000 acres of land nationwide.

Jul 20, 2012

2012 Giants 300 Special Report

Ranking the leading firms in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.

Jul 20, 2012

Higher education market holding steady

But Giants 300 University AEC Firms aren’t expecting a flood of new work.

Jul 16, 2012

Business school goes for maximum vision, transparency, and safety with fire rated glass

Architects were able to create a 2-hour exit enclosure/stairwell that provided vision and maximum fire safety using fire rated glazing that seamlessly matched the look of other non-rated glazing systems.

Jul 11, 2012

Perkins+Will designs new home for Gateway Community College

Largest one-time funded Connecticut state project and first designed to be LEED Gold.

Jul 9, 2012

Integrated Design Group completes UCSB data center

Firm uses European standard of power at USCB North Hall Research Data Center.

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