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Adohi Hall / Leers Weinzapfel Associates + Modus Studio + Mackey Mitchell Architects + OLIN

María Francisca González — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:00:00 +0000

A design collaborative led by Leers Weinzapfel Associates (Boston), Modus Studio (Fayetteville, AR), Mackey Mitchell Architects (St. Louis), and OLIN (Philadelphia), announces the completion of Adohi Hall, a $79M, 202,027-square-foot, 708- bed facility at the University of Arkansas. Now in use, the pioneering project is the nation’s first large-scale mass timber residence hall and living learning setting. A bold demonstration of sustainability, the five-story hall also signifies potential economic development for the burgeoning timber industry in Arkansas.

University of Massachusetts Amherst Design Building / Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Antonia Cayupe — Thu, 25 May 2017 15:00:00 +0000

The Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) academic building in the United States and the largest installation of wood concrete composites in North America. The$52M, 87,500-square-foot project, made possible through supplemental funding from the Massachusetts State Legislature, is a dynamic space of exchange, collaboration, and experiment. Uniting the university’s departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and the Building and Construction Technology program under one roof for the first time, the structure itself is a teaching tool for prescient sustainable design.

East Regional Chilled Water Plant / Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:00:00 +0000

On a prominent site between campus and city, this critically important large infrastructure facility fits comfortably among its smaller academic neighbors, preserves an important green space, and frames the gateway for a new campus entry.

University of Connecticut Social Sciences and Classroom Buildings / Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Located at the center of campus, two new classroom buildings frame the nexus of student interchange where two primary pedestrian paths cross at an existing plaza. Tied together by a new sustainable landscape inspired by the agrarian past, the buildings provide a home for five social sciences and humanities departments and house a total of 40 new high technology classroom facilities, ranging from a 400-seat lecture hall to small seminar rooms, as well as 12 specialized departmental teaching spaces.

Museum of Medical History and Innovation / Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Jonathan Alarcon — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ Paul S. Russell MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is now open to the public. Located on a prominent site at the entry to the hospital’s downtown campus, this freestanding, purpose-built hospital museum is the first of its kind in the United States. Reflecting MGH’s achievements, culture, and place in the community, it showcases the evolution of medicine and surgery at the hospital and the innovative science and research behind it.