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The University of Missouri-St. Louis has opened the new $52-million Blanch M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. The 123,000-sf facility houses the 1,625 Anheuser Busch Performance Hall and the 300-seat E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theatre. Designed by Pei-Cobb Freed & Partners with the acoustic firm of Kirkegaard Associates, the center accommodates dressing rooms, performer lounges, two box offices, and a 42 x 54 ft rehearsal room. The center, which has a $6-million operating budget, will be used by both the university and the performing arts community.

Webster University opened its new $21-million Emerson Library on July 1, 2003. The 71,500-sf, five-floor facility accommodates 750 data ports, 20 small-group study rooms, a 100-person lecture room, an electronic classroom, and a 25-computer cyber café. The facility is Webster's only U.S. library; all other Webster campuses can access the library's materials in computer labs. Contractor Paric Corp. broke ground on the project in 2001. The library was designed by architectural firm Perry, Dean, Rogers & Partners of Boston.  

Yale School of Medicine’s Biomedical Research and Teaching Facility, known as 300 Cedar Street, is designed to maximize collaboration between basic and clinical scientific disciplines. Designed by Payette Associates, the 450,000-gsf project was dedicated on the New Haven, Ct.,campus in May 2003. A six-story, 350,000-gsf wing supports flexible laboratories for 700 scientists focused on disease-related research. A four-story, 100,000-gsf wing supports medical education including the school’s new gross anatomy and histology teaching laboratories for medical and physician associate students.

Northside Hospital-Forsyth is planning a $23-million expansion of its Cumming, Ga., emergency department. A two-story, 39,000-sf structure and a 12,500-sf addition will be constructed, and 16,900 sf of existing space will be renovated. The project, which more than doubles the size of the department, will also provide expanded radiology imaging capacity.

Northern Virginia Community College has selected Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering to design the Bisdorf Building addition and renovationon at its Alexandria, Va., campus. A 22,000-sf lab and classroom area will be expanded with the construction of a 75,000-sf building accommodating science labs, lecture halls, classrooms, conference rooms, student activity and service areas. The project is slated for completion in 2006.