Ayers Saint Gross has shared renderings of its new design in Charlotte, North Carolina, ahead of its opening in 2025. Dubbed 'The Pearl,' the scheme is a 3 million-square-foot mixed-use innovation district intended to aid the Wake Forest School of Medicine's expansion and mission to become a new civic hub for around a million Charlotteans.
Located at the edge of Uptown, the program includes the anchoring 393,000-square-foot Howard Levine Center for Education building and a smaller ten-story neighboring research facility developed in partnership with Atrium Health and Wexford Science & Technology. CO Architects is a collaborator on the project.
The Levine Center includes a 250-seat feature conference area called ‘The Forum.’ The Center was developed through a series of special “fireside chats” held in combination with the local MBE practice Neighboring Concepts and will include a connected public meeting space titled The Assembly.
Also of note is the tiered public plaza portion of the development, which the firms say is made sensitive to its site’s history as a Historically Black district known as Brooklyn that was mostly erased by early 20th-century development.
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