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| The gallery below highlights a few of our favorite Higher Ed projects. Click on a picture to view a project, or use the arrow buttons to scroll through each project. |
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| Slate Café, Colorado School of Mines The design of this primary campus food service space interprets the campus mission of energy, mineral and materials science, with a primary objective to make the space feel like a restaurant, not a cafeteria. The design responds to the mining heritage while creating a restaurant environment, not a cafeteria which was the previous setting. In keeping with this heritage, the design incorporates artifact-type decor to embellish the ambiance and character. Students are greeted by a hostess desk constructed of heavy metal I-beams and a butcher block work surface. Slate flooring and stacked stone walls thematically tie back to the history of the college’s connection with the earth and its resources. Stone walls throughout the space are strategically placed to create different seating neighborhoods. |
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| Edna Rizley Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, Colorado State University The first phase in the development of the University Center for the Arts is the new addition for the concert hall. It is designed to provide acoustical excellence in the performance space while honoring the historical character of the existing building. Additionally, there was a desire to express a regionalism suggestive of Colorado. Interior elements were taken from the original 1924 historic building. Limestone building fragments salvaged from the original façade are featured in the lobby. Columns from the historic building are replicated on the exterior of the addition and used as decorative column wraps inside the lobby. |
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| Genomics Teaching Place at the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Building, University of Colorado at Boulder The Genomics Teaching Place (GTP) is a state-of-the-art laboratory that serves CU undergraduates and the K-12 community. The GTP includes both a computing facility and an accompanying wet lab, allowing students hands-on experience with both the DNA manipulation and the data analysis that are involved in genomics. Lab furniture is designed for maximum flexibility to support a variety of learning environments. The design of the space incorporates art and subtle connections to the study and research of the lab. Entry to the classroom and lab is detailed with a floor pattern depicting the DNA strand. Niches in the entry corridor provide the client with display spaces. These are intended to highlight work and peak the interest of science taught in the classroom. |
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| Presidents Residence Hall, Johnson and Wales University Presidents Hall is a Tudor-Gothic three-story building originally built in 1946 refurbished and renovated to provide a completely new interior housing 132 students while preserving the historic character of the building. The project provides a unique design with high level of finishes to accommodate traveling professors and lecturers. The residence hall doubles as a “hotel” for the university during the summer when chefs and hospitality managers stay for corporate training programs. Each room provides double occupancy with its own bathroom, individual heating, ventilation and air-conditioning controls, built-in furnishings including custom-designed wardrobes with a cable TV, and two telephone lines and multiple data connections with internet access. Other amenities provided in the building include two study lounges for small group meetings along with built-in study corrals, a formal parlor, a recreation room with TV, billiards, foosball and kitchen, a laundry room, and storage areas including bike storage. |
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