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December 10, 2007, 08:38 AM ET
Shop Talk: Murals at MIT, a Big Project at Saint Louis U., a Green Business School at UC-Davis, and More
Floor art: Robert Campbell, architecture critic for The Boston Globe, gushes over the new Sol LeWitt murals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The murals, which are on the floor of a new building by Payette Associates, were designed just before the famous Modern artist died this past April. Mr. Campbell calls them “ecstatic and jazzy,” but also “rigorously ordered.” The murals are made of an epoxy terrazzo with glass beads embedded in the designs. Mr. Campbell is just as effusive about the building, which he calls “almost as satisfying as its mural.”
All in the family: Saint Louis University is building a new, 206,000-square-foot, $82-million biomedical research center. It is the biggest project in the university’s history, designed by Cannon Design and constructed by the Clayco Construction Company. Robert G. Clark, chairman and chief executive of Clayco, sits on the university’s Board of Trustees.
Freeway access: The University of California at Davis broke ground on a $34.5-million building for its graduate school of management, situated near an emerging “front door” of the campus, which provides “easy in, easy out” access to a nearby freeway. The building is expected to meet the gold standard under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system. The building will be called Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. Hall, named for a Las Vegas airline executive who pledged $10-million for the project.
Good medicine:The University of Tennesee at Memphis broke ground on a new, $42-million building for its school of pharmacy, according to the Memphis Business Journal. The 191,000-square-foot building will consolidate classroom and lab space for pharmacy students, which have been spread throughout six buildings on campus.
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