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Hall Building: "The GW School of Business is proud of its national rankings and certain the new complex will add to its rising reputation."The 173,700 SF new construction of the Ric and Dawn Duques Hall building links to the renovated Norma Lee and Morton Funger Hall building unifying the School of Business into one facility.The clean, modern building is sympathetic to the older Funger Hall building, but
OMA to Design Campus Building for Cornell UniversityOffice for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has signed with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA) to design the new Millstein Hall building.The new building will be used by the College of Architecture Art and Planning and will accommodate classrooms, studio's and office spaces for each of the college's departments.It will also offer a major lecture Hall building as well as a boardroom.OMA's design will enable integration with an already existing building, which, in previous design concepts, had been earmarked for demolition.Cornell chose to work with OMA because 'they are particularly innovative in the use of program and its relation to the design of space.See Also Office Building:This year, the competition will focus on public buildings in the coastal environment of Southern California.Students entering Challenge 1 will design an Environmental Museum and Interpretative Center and students entering Challenge 2 will design a Park Office and Snack Bar.Both buildings will be located in the new Orange County Great Park, in Irvine, California.The competition objectives are to encourage and reward excellence in architectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies.Competition participants will have the opportunity to explore energy efficiency as a basic standard of building design, incorporate principles of sustainability in the choice of building materials, water use, building design, and building site, investigate new building materials & methodologies that
Frank Gehry Unveils Design for Las Vegas Medical CenterArchitect Frank Gehry has unveiled his design for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas.The building consists a swooping trellis made of Gehry's signature contorted steel.The trellis is anchored by a five-story boxy office building.
On The Other Hand See Progressive Building Practices:The structure, designed by Arrowstreet Architects, also sports the City's largest photovoltaic array on its roof.A beacon for progressive building practices in the Commonwealth, AFH has aptly named their new home the EpiCenter.Funded in part by grant support from Boston's Green Building Task Force and the forward-thinking Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the 23,500 square foot facility boasts many of the usual cost-efficient and sustainable design features.It has passive solar heating, aggressive insulation, and a greywater recycling syst
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