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Kyonggi University Plans Teleconferencing Auditorium
Kyonggi University has selected Cannon Design of Boston to design its new 50,000-sf Teleconferencing Auditorium, a 1,300-seat facility that will serve as both the campus hub for the information technology infrastructure and as an auditorium for special events. The “green” building will be submerged into landscaped terraces to increase energy efficiency, and will be constructed of recycled materials and use energy captured by solar collectors mounted on adjacent buildings and within the garden landscape.
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.
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.
UC San Francisco Builds New Mission Bay Campus
The University of California, San Francisco's new 43-acre research campus at Mission Bay is under construction. Phase one includes a 385,000-sf research building; a 165,000-sf center for human genetics, developmental biology, and developmental neuroscience; and a campus community center sporting food courts, a health club and pool, and a library'all scheduled to open by 2003. The developer of the huge project is Catellus.