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Marquez Hall, Colorado School of Mines

Fuel School: A team of architects designs an open, inviting new home for a university’s petroleum engineering department.
David Hill
November 15, 2013
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Golden, Colorado, about 20 miles west of Denver, is probably best known for a certain beer brewed in a massive plant on the city’s eastern edge.


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Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

The Art of Science: A new center for the study of nanotechnology merges landscape with building, and sculpture with architecture, reshaping a formerly bleak part of the University of Pennsylvania campus.
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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
November 15, 2013
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Although located in dense West Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania has a genuine campus—one organized around a series of green spaces and landscaped quadrangles carved out of the surrounding urban fabric.


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Lee Hall Addition, Clemson University

Machine for Learning: An architecture school expands into a steel and glass structure that showcases its structural and energy-efficient features.
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Suzanne Stephens
November 15, 2013
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Architects don’t often get to design a new building for their alma mater. Yet Thomas Phifer, based in New York City, showed it’s possible to go home again—with success.


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Football Performance Center, University of Oregon

Fantasy League: The University of Oregon's football team is known for an offense that dizzies its opponents. A new building to support these student athletes also blurs the lines between transparency and stealth.
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Laura Raskin
November 15, 2013
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In a video that shows the Oregon Ducks football team being introduced this past summer to their new Football Performance Center at the University of Oregon, player after player has the same gobsmacked look on his face.


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Genome Sciences Building

The DNA of Good Design: A research facility at the University of North Carolina shines the light of day on scientific discovery and collaboration.
Sara Hart
November 15, 2013
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To attract the best and brightest faculty and students, universities today are asking architects for buildings that not only serve their academic goals but also bring prestige to their campuses through innovative design.


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Golkin Hall, Penn Law School

Legal Threshold: Kennedy & Violich lighten up traditional materials in a new building for the University of Pennsylvania's law school.
William Hanley
November 15, 2012
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Golkin Hall, the latest addition to the University of Pennsylvania's law school, announces itself with a contradiction.


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Wolfe Center for the Collaborative Arts

Rising Star: Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.
Steven Litt
November 15, 2012
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Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.
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At Drexel University, a Green Rebirth Planned for a Former Frat House

Laura Mirviss
January 18, 2012
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Image courtesy Drexel University Plans call for restoring the stone-clad house and constructing a 4,600-square-foot addition. The building will double as an educational space and dorm. Image courtesy Drexel University The dwelling, built in 1872, has sat vacant since the late 1990s.  Situated on a tree-lined street on the Drexel University campus in West Philadelphia, a stone-clad dwelling circa 1872 served as the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house for three-plus decades. In the late 1990s, however, the university shuttered the residence following an arson incident. It has sat vacant ever since. Now, a student-run organization backed by faculty members is
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