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Architects: GLUCK+
- Area: 14000 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Paul Warchol
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Manufacturers: EQUITONE, Curtain Wall and Window, EFCO, Eastern Architectural Products, Lab Casework, Lower Boxes Wood Cladding, Masonry Base, New England Laboratory Casework, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Upper Box Cladding, William Lumber Company
Text description provided by the architects. The Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey Research Laboratory is a new state-of-the-art, LEED Gold marine science research building for Duke University Marine Laboratory on Pivers Island. The Duke University Marine Laboratory coastal campus is a unique ‘window on the sea’, providing experiential learning that combines the classroom context with fieldwork, theory with practice, and encourages wise, local land management and protection of natural resources due to engagement in the field. For the new research laboratory, every design decision reinforced the concept of providing a window on the sea, both figuratively and literally.
