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Perkins + Will designed a new business-school building for the State U. of New York at Albany. (Perkins + Will rendering)

Starting this summer, a 96,000-square-foot business-school building inspired by Edward Durell Stone will go up in front of one of Stone's 1960s masterpieces, the State University of New York at Albany. The design, by Perkins + Will, was unveiled yesterday by university officials and New York politicians.

The $64-million building will be constructed alongside the entry plaza that fronts Stone's vast assemblage of buildings, which the university refers to as the "academic podium" and which stretches the length of more than five football fields. Opposite the construction site is University Hall, a 2006 building by Gwathmey Siegel Associates that is set at an angle to Stone's and answers it with curving, mirror-clad walls.

The Perkins + Will design is much more in...

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Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa.

Building Type: Medical

Construction Type: New

Cost: $92-million

Square Footage: 182,000

Architect: Payette; Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions

Contractor: Gilbane Building Company

Opened: 2009

The goal for this facility was to create a new kind of healing environment in a clinical setting. The outpatient oncology facility contains four linear-accelerator vaults, two outpatient clinics, two infusion-therapy suites, and a day hospital. These spaces sit below research laboratories for chemical carcinogenesis, experimental therapeutics, and cancer control and prevention. Clinical functions are located on the lower three floors and research labs are located on the upper two floors. Researchers and clinicians members share office suites on the upper two, with adjacent support spaces...

Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Building Type: Administrative

Construction Type: New

Cost: $24-million

Square Footage: 120,000

Architect: KSS Architects

Contractor: Torcon Inc.

Opened: 2009

To preserve on-campus space for academic purposes, Princeton is consolidating administrative and support offices in an off-campus facility that supports modern workflow and technology needs. But it wasn't easy to persuade staff members who coveted their on-campus spaces to relocate. This four-story building includes a cafeteria, a new lobby, a central staircase, office space, collaborative work areas, and plenty of natural daylight.

(Photos: Barry Halkin)

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Mass.

Building Type: Science

Construction Type: New

Cost: $92-million

Square Footage: 157,500

Architect: Payette

Contractor: Gilbane Building Company

Opened: 2009

This building is part of a scalable plan to expand science teaching and research capabilities on the university's campus, as well as to foster interaction and collaboration among students and research faculty members. The L-shaped building has a lab wing to the west and a classroom wing to the north. The laboratory wing houses teaching and research spaces for chemistry and biology programs, while standard classrooms occupy the other wing. The concourse is the heart of the the building, serving as a major pedestrian path, providing a variety of gathering places, and aiding in orientation in and around the building. The building is designed to LEED silver criteria and...