Campus Architecture Database: Carl J. Shapiro Science Center

Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

Building Type: Science

Construction Type: New

Cost: $62-million

Square Footage: 108,000

Architect: Payette

Contractor: John Moriarty & Associates

Opened: 2009

This building is part of a larger plan to support interdisciplinary scientific discourse at Brandeis. Teaching labs for chemistry and biology occupy the two lower floors, with three floors of research labs above—two for the National Center for Behavioral Genomics and one for chemistry. The building also has an atrium, a two-story all-electronic library, and two classrooms, one with three-dimensional-projection capability.

(Photos: Warren Jagger Photography)

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