Fort Collins, Colo.
Colorado State University celebrated the completion of the $16-million Chemistry/Biological Sciences Instructional Labs on October 11. Designed by OZ Architecture, a firm with studios in Denver, Boulder, and Summit County, the 78,000-sf building forms a dramatic arched bridge connecting the existing Chemistry and Anatomy/Zoology buildings and acts as a new campus gateway. Housing teaching space for biosciences with labs and breakout rooms for 24 or 48 students, the building also features a 250-seat lecture hall set up like a smart classroom facilitating student laptop usage that can be used to conduct microexperiments for a lecture-size class.
