Category Archives: Campus Architecture

Colorful Architecture

December 15, 2011 – 11:01 am

Picking colors totally freaks people out, from homeowners to Fortune 500 CEOs. Re-painting, even re-re-painting is common. Getting the six exterior colors right at the new Hillside Research Campus at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was critical to its success in blending in: both with the built and natural setting at the venerable institution and also [...]

By David Holahan | Also posted in Materials | Tagged | Comments (0)

Once You Saw it…Now You Don’t

November 4, 2011 – 8:59 am

A short while ago, when coming down Prospect Street in New Haven, you would have spied a sleek, one-story, silver classroom and office building with horizontal metal siding and long patterns of windows that seemed to race by each other. It was an intriguing curiosity, boldly announcing that it was having fun. And yet its [...]

By Mark Simon | Also posted in Beloved Buildings | Tagged | Comments (1)

The Best Laid Plans…

September 15, 2011 – 10:46 am

Anyone who has remodeled a bathroom, or even a broom closet, knows that building projects tend not to proceed as planned. Surprises are common, and the work can take longer and cost more than expected – if one is not vigilant. Even when the execution goes smoothly, sometimes the basic concept is flawed: for example, [...]

By Jim Childress | Comments (0)

Designing on the Fly

February 3, 2011 – 5:17 pm

Editor’s Note: Architect Scott Allen was a member of the Centerbrook design team led by partner Jim Childress for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for Community. Revit is the 3D modeling software that, along with other new technologies, has revolutionized how and where architectural design and planning can be conducted. Below, Scott recounts [...]

By Scott Allen | Also posted in Process, Technology | Tagged | Comments (2)

Green Grow the Campuses

October 20, 2009 – 4:28 pm

How green a campus is today is a crucial factor in a college’s admissions, affecting not simply the number of applicants but also the percentage of accepted students, known as “the yield,” who chose to attend a given four-year institution.  Since the average applicant now applies to seven schools, the competition for top candidates is [...]

By Jefferson Riley | Also posted in Sustainable Design | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Designing Spaces for Modern Students

October 1, 2009 – 8:49 pm

For my son’s recent college project he was paired with another student, something that would have been exceedingly rare (if not unheard of) during my bright (if that is the right word) college years.  We wandered lonely as a cloud, scholastically speaking.  It was me against the professor, with precious little backup. But group education [...]

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