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Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum / Ennead Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Renowned design firms Ennead Architects, KSS Architects, and G&A celebrated the opening of the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University in Mantua Township, New Jersey on March 31, 2025. Situated within a 65-acre fossil park, the 44,000-square-foot museum is one of New Jersey's largest public net-zero carbon emissions buildings. It integrates immersive exhibits within a highly sustainable structure that connects visitors to the site's rich prehistoric past. Visitors can explore nature trails, dig for fossils in a four-acre former marl quarry, and uncover insights into the events leading to Earth's fifth mass extinction.

Shanghai Astronomy Museum / Ennead Architects

Collin Chen — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Designed by Ennead, the monumental new museum creates an immersive experience that places visitors in direct engagement with real astronomical phenomena. Through scale, form, and the manipulation of light, the building heightens awareness of our fundamental relationship to the sun and the earth’s orbital motion. At 420,000 square feet, the new astronomical branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum will be the largest museum worldwide solely dedicated to the study of astronomy.

Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact / Ennead Architects + Bora Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The Knight Campus’s transformative, the human-centered design will support researchers as they advance the initiative’s mission to shorten the timeline between discovery, development, and deployment of innovations that will have a positive societal impact.

Denning House at Stanford University / Ennead Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, Denning House is intended to be a gathering place for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, a place for students to share ideas and to develop as leaders. The new building offers a variety of meeting, classroom and dining spaces, formal and informal, large and small, both inside and outside, suitable for individual study, small gatherings or large events.

Kansas State University - College of Architecture, Planning and Design / Ennead Architects + BNIM

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Responding to the College’s focus on the designer as an instrument for positive change in the world, the building design creates a sense of place for APDesign and supports a new curriculum that trains future leaders to reconnect the act of design to making through inter-disciplinary collaboration and a focus on direct fabrication.

Lycée Français de New York / Ennead Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Ennead has worked with Lycée Français de New York for over 15 years, beginning with the design of the Main Building in 2003, which unified the school which was once housed in six separate buildings into a single location. Since then, Ennead has worked with Lycée Français de New York every year to respond to the school’s curricular evolution. Most recently, Ennead expanded the school to accommodate for their transformed curriculum while providing a new dignified presence on York Avenue.

EERC / Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects with Jacobs Engineering Group

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Over seven years in the making, the EERC defines a new approach to engineering education through the integration of undergraduate project-based learning and interdisciplinary graduate research, with state-of-the-art classrooms, large-scale labs, and maker spaces.

Beus Center for Law and Society / Ennead Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law reinvents the traditional law school experience through the construction of a new, modern facility, the Beus Center for Law and Society, in the heart of downtown Phoenix. The relocation of the law school to this area of Arizona State University’s downtown campus

Ennead Architects Reveals Designs for Engineering Center at University of Texas at Austin

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:15:00 +0000

Ennead Architects has released images of the new Engineering Education and Research Center for the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. Currently under construction, the 433,000 square foot (40,200 square meter) building will house undergraduate education, interdisciplinary graduate research and two distinct engineering departments, and will become a new hub of activity at the edge of campus. The design takes advantage of a unique section featuring stacked atrium and outdoor spaces to serve a variety of educational and public functions.

Ennead Architects Designs Sweeping New Music Center for Xiamen

Patrick Lynch — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Ennead Architects has released plans for a new 40,000 square meter (430,550 square foot) Music Center in the Chinese city of Xiamen. The design, produced for a six-week design competition held by Xiamen City Municipal Planning, draws inspiration from the island city’s dramatic topography and history to create a new public institution along the harbor. To provide the beachfront with a new public gathering place, the project’s feature element will be a grand stair likened by Ennead to Rome’s timeless Spanish Steps.

Ennead Architects Reveal Proposal for Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Expansion

Sabrina Santos — Wed, 04 May 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Ennead Architects have unveiled their proposed design for the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts campus expansion, master planning and architectural design competition. “This campus expansion and re-envisioning positions Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts—one of China’s top schools of fine art—as an Academy in the Park,” inspired by nature and an oasis destination within the dense urban fabric of Tianjin, write the architects.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art / Ennead Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:00:00 +0000

The transformation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art reinforces the importance of the Arts and the Museum’s vital role in the Greensburg community and the region. The result is an architecturally dynamic building marrying old and new with an expansion that stands as a striking counterpoint to the original neo-Georgian structure. The design strengthens and renews the Museum’s identity and experience while extending its legacy into the future.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design / Ennead Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 09:00:00 +0000

The design for MassArt’s new Design and Media Center establishes a new identity and welcoming threshold for the College along Boston’s “Avenue of the Arts,” connecting for the first time all of its adjacent buildings and providing greater accessibility to campus. The Center is designed to not only enhance the quality of collaborative teaching spaces for the College but also to reveal the vitality of the art and design

Ennead Architects Announces Plans for New Tech District in China

Sabrina Santos — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Ennead Architects has unveiled the plans for its new project, the Qilin Technology Innovation Park, located in Nanjing, China. The 468,000 square meter project seeks to give a new direction to Chinese urbanism, as it moves away from the trend of “individual architectural trophies,” and towards “creating a holistic district identity and memorable urban space on a human scale.”

Global and International Studies Building / Ennead Architects + Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:00:00 +0000

The new Global and International Studies Building defines an important cultural and academic crossroads at the heart of campus. Home to the new School of Global and International Studies and many of the language, literature and culture studies programs in IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, the new building provides flexible spaces for teaching and learning that extend beyond the classroom to foster collaboration and inter-disciplinary education. Integrated into the sloping topography at the eastern edge of the campus’s historic core, the design fuses building and landscape by framing a new terrace landscape as an extension of public gathering spaces within the building.

Ennead Architects Design Huawei Research Center in Wuhan, China

Sabrina Santos — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Ennead Architects has unveiled its design for the new Huawei Research Center, a research and development campus under construction in Wuhan, China. The new Center will be 350,000 square meters, and seeks to foster “interdepartmental interaction amongst employees while maximizing access to the surrounding landscape.”

Ennead Unveils Plans for Shanghai's Taopu Sci-Tech City

Karissa Rosenfield — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Ennead Architects has designed a new research and development community for Shanghai. Located on the city's western edge, as part of a new district being planned around one of Shanghai’s largest future public parks, Taopu Sci-Tech City will be a vibrant and well connected research district that engages its context by establishing a multilayered pedestrian network.

Ennead Teams Up with Chilean Architects to Design Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:51:00 +0000

As a result of a public competition, the Chilean Regional Government has commissioned Ennead Architects to collaborate with Chilean architects Cristian Sanhueza and Cristian Ostertag on the design of the Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center. Planned for a site within the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve in Puerto Williams, a town on Navarino Island in the Chilean Sub-Antarctic Province, the center will provide a home for the Biocultural Research and Conservation Program led by Dr. Ricardo Rozzi, Professor at the University of North Texas, the Universidad de Magallanes and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity.