Campus Architecture Database: Lindner Hall

Elon University, Elon, N.C.

Building Type: Academic

Construction Type: New

Cost: $5.4-million

Square Footage: 35,600

Architect: Spillman Farmer Architects

Contractor: J.H. Allen Inc.

Opened: 2009

The focal point of this building is the first floor Reading Room, furnished with leather reading chairs and accented with dark wood and antique brass fixtures that offer students a handsome setting for quiet study and reflection. Arranged around the Reading Room are seminar rooms and classrooms as well as administrative and faculty “pods,” each consisting of a group of offices surrounding a large student-faculty engagement space. The building achieved LEED gold certification.

(Photos: Greg Loflin)

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