Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College
Red tile roofs and stucco facades dominate the leafy grounds of Mills College, in Oakland. But for the new home of its now-10-year-old MBA program, the women’s liberal arts college and coeducational graduate institution asked architects Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ) to depart from the campus’s characteristic Spanish Revival style.
The firm responded with a decidedly modern building made of crisp volumes clad in stone, zinc, and glass. Completed in the fall of 2009, the Graduate School of Business houses classrooms, faculty offices, and areas for collaboration and impromptu meetings. The largest of these interactive zones is the double-story lobby, which opens to a covered linear porch and a lawn defined by the building’s L-shaped plan. These indoor and outdoor spaces function like a campus “living room,” says Greg Mottola, a BCJ principal.
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