Campus Architecture Database: Franciscan Center for Science and Media

Madonna University, Livonia, Mich.

Building Type: Science

Construction Type: New

Cost: $18-million

Square Footage: 65,000

Architect: SmithGroup

Contractor: Clark’s Construction Inc.

Opened: 2009

This facility, the university’s first new building in 40 years, houses classrooms, teaching laboratories, faculty offices, seminar rooms, gathering areas for students, and digital TV and radio studios, along with video-editing suites and a 150-seat lecture hall. The building was designed to earn LEED certification, in part by incorporating a sedum-planted roof and by relying on natural light as much as possible.

(Photos: Jim Haefner Photography)

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