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Meredith College Builds Collaborative Science Facility
Meredith College has a new $20 million, 80,000-sf collaborative science building under construction. Designed by BJLAS Architecture and built by Rogers Builders of Charlotte, N.C., the facility will promote interaction by bringing together the various science subspecialties, rather than isolating them by floor. The most expensive lab space -- that used by the departments of chemistry and biology -- will be grouped together. Four to six students will work together at lab "islands." Small group study alcoves will be located throughout the structure.
UT-San Antonio Plan Academic Building III
The University of Texas at San Antonio is designing a new four-story academic building—Academic Building III—a 190,000-sf facility for the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy; the College of Education and Human Development; and the Department of Communications. The proposed $53-million structure will house multipurpose classrooms, lecture halls, teaching labs, and administrative offices.
Howard University Dedicates Health Sciences Library
Howard University dedicated its new $27-million Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library in mid-November 2001. Washington, D.C.-based Hillier designed the four-story, 80,000-sf library, which can seat up to 615 people. The facility can accommodate as many as 400,000 volumes, periodicals, and digitally formatted material. The library features a telemedicine room, where students can make diagnoses from their workstations.
San Diego State Plans Fraternity Row
San Diego State University plans to redevelop 131 acres surrounding its campus with the $14.3 million, 1.4-acre Fraternity Row, a Greek housing model composed of eight free-standing chapter houses surrounding a four-story, 62-unit apartment complex. Fraternities may own or lease the 2,278-sf to 4,360-sf houses, which provide a private backyard courtyard, a multipurpose room, chapter room, food/prep kitchen area, unisex bathrooms, computer/study room, offices, and residential suites.
University of Pennsylvania Plans Riverview Campus
The University of Pennsylvania Riverview Campus master plan was completed in April 2001 by Cambridge, Mass.-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates. The 20-acre Philadelphia Civic Center site will be transformed into a mixed-use healthcare and research center serving the needs of the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.