The architectural team comprised of Davis Brody Bond and Kieran Timberlake has unveiled its newest updates on the design for 181 Mercer, a 735,000-square-foot complex for New York University that will replace a 35-year-old gym facility and become NYU’s largest classroom building, as well as a space for performing arts, athletics, and students and faculty housing.
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Davis Brody Bond and Kieran Timberlake Unveil Designs for NYU Complex in New York
https://www.archdaily.com/801164/davis-brody-bond-and-kieran-timberlake-unveil-designs-for-nyu-complex-in-new-yorkSabrina Santos
Eindhoven University of Technology Building to Become World's Most Sustainable University Building
Total Engineer Team RSVP has unveiled the renovation design for the Main Building of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, which, once completed, will be the most sustainable university building in the world. On September 27, the design was awarded as BREEAM Outstanding under the BREEAM-NL sustainability label of the Netherlands, with a score of 93.86%.
The university building, which will be called Atlas upon completion, was designed by a multidisciplinary team consisting of Team V (architect), Van Rossum (construction engineer), Valstar Simonis (building installations engineer), and Peutz (building physics engineer and sustainability expert).
https://www.archdaily.com/796414/eindhoven-university-of-technology-building-to-become-worlds-most-sustainable-university-buildingSabrina Santos
Lyons and m3architecture Selected to Design Sustainable Futures Building at the University of Queensland, Australia
Firms Lyons and m3architecture have been selected to design the Sustainable Futures Building at the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland.
The new building will house the School of Chemical Engineering, and is intended to amplify the University’s profile as a hub of chemical engineering leadership in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, and a global stage.
https://www.archdaily.com/792695/lyons-and-m3architecture-selected-to-design-sustainable-futures-building-at-the-university-of-queensland-australiaSabrina Santos
Ennead Architects Makes Progress on New University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building
Ennead Architects has recently celebrated the completion of the steel core of a new 295,000-square-foot Biological Sciences Building (BSB) and Museum of Natural History with a topping out ceremony at the University of Michigan. Due to open in 2018, the BSB will bring together the departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Research Museums of Paleontology and Zoology, and a re-envisioned Museum of Natural History.
https://www.archdaily.com/792615/ennead-architects-makes-progress-on-new-university-of-michigan-biological-sciences-buildingSabrina Santos
How University Construction Projects Offer Opportunities to Reform Architecture Education
There is a dichotomy to the business of educating architects. While the real world profession is a collaborative field, one in which projects of even the largest and most publicly-acclaimed offices are team-led initiatives, the study of architecture is often insular, myopic, and devoid of such partnerships. Certainly there is a benefit to this style of teaching - it builds confidence for one thing - but it is troubling to think that in a socially-oriented and practically-minded field like architecture, there can be such major disconnects between the process of designing and the act of building. As many critics of current architectural education have pointed out, incorporating design-build projects into school curriculums is a pragmatic solution oriented towards correcting such imbalances.
The fact that more schools don't have programs for students to both design and build their projects is especially perplexing when most universities, particularly those located in the United States, are in such a prolonged period of institutional and budgetary expansion. With many schools now governed like corporate entities, it’s surprising that architecture programs and students are not treated like in-house resources. Why aren’t architecture students treated like assets, the same way that student doctors and nurses are brought into university led medical facilities or scientists into campus research labs?
https://www.archdaily.com/780957/how-university-construction-projects-offer-opportunities-to-reform-architecture-educationVladimir Gintoff