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After Bumps and Bribery Charges, Frank Gehry's Library Opens at Princeton
For its trouble, the university has gotten a structure that will probably inspire and delight those who work in it. (Photo by Brian Wilson, Princeton U.)
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Georgia Perimeter College Creates New Campus on 100-Acre Site
The first building on Georgia Perimeter College’s new Newton campus opened last year. (Photograph by Jonathan Hillyer/Atlanta)
Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year institution serving students on the east side of Atlanta, has opened a new campus in Newton County with a 104,000-square-foot multipurpose building whose twin is already under construction. The two buildings will define a great lawn at the heart of the 100-acre Newton campus, which is adjacent to the site of a planned 450-acre town that will be called Mt. Pleasant.
The first building houses 45 classrooms, six teaching labs, a library, and offices for faculty members and administrators. An atrium in the three-story building’s tower accommodates the college’s food service, as well as space for students to socialize. The building, which takes its aesthetic cues from notable local structures, is clad in red brick and sits on a base of rough-hewn granite salvaged from nearby Elberton, Ga.
The first building was designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent, with the Architecture Group as associate architects; for the second building, which will house a fitness center and other facilities, the Architecture Group took the lead and Lord, Aeck & Sargent served as associate architects. The firms collaborated with two other firms—Paulien Associates, and Hughes, Good, O’Leary & Ryan—on the new campus’s master plan, which is designed to protect wetlands on the site. The total cost of the project is over $36-million.
The Newton campus replaces a storefront facility in a former shopping plaza.
The second building on the campus, now under construction, will match the first. (Rendering by Lord, Aeck & Sargent)
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Kudos on the architecture.
— Marci Mar 24, 06:47 PM #