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KSU picks Weiss/Manfredi's "Design Loft" concept for its new $40 million architecture school building

2013-04-02T18:30:00-04:00

Kent State University has chosen a glassy, light-filled design concept by the firm of Weiss/Manfredi from New York for its $40 million new building for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Richard L. Bowen & Associates of Cleveland will be the “architect of record” for the project.

Previously: Four teams unveil concepts in competition to design $40 million architecture school at KSU

Four teams unveil concepts in competition to design $40 million architecture school at KSU

2013-01-18T17:10:00-05:00

From simple and functional to splendidly provocative, four proposals vying to become reality as Kent State University's new College of Architecture and Environmental Design were presented to the public Thursday. The university hosted the four partnerships competing to design the $40 million building by providing a forum so the architects could pitch their ideas for "solving the problem," as one presenter put it.

The four teams and their proposals are:

Bialosky + Partners Architects, with offices in Cleveland and New York, in association with Architecture Research Office of New York, proposed a building with a skin of light brown precast concrete panels rising from a one-story base of tan brick. The building emphasized a sculptural look and featured vertical windows. Architect Stephen Cassell of ARO said the building would qualify for a platinum rating – the highest available – under the LEED system of the U.S. Green Building Council, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, but ran out of time before he could explain the details.

Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc. of Cleveland in association with Weiss/Manfredi of New York, proposed a glassy structure they called “Design Loft.” The project emphasized flexible interior spaces organized around a skeletal structural system and interior ramps and staircases that knitted the interior to...

Kent State University narrows the competition to four firms

2012-12-12T15:31:00-05:00

Determined to realize a landmark building that will match the esteem of Kent State’s architecture program (currently scattered among disparate buildings on campus), the university is asking four teams, led by Bialosky & Partners Architects, Richard L. Bowen & Associates Inc., The Collaborative Inc., and Westlake Reed Leskosky — all with offices in Cleveland or Toledo — to present thorough design proposals instead of wooing the jury with vaguely outlined schemes and interview charisma.

Kent State architecture building competition announces 8 finalists

2012-11-16T18:02:00-05:00

Nearly 40 firms from around the world entered the competition to design the university’s new College of Architecture and Environmental Design which will form a gateway to the campus in the city of Kent. They included Hadid, Moussavi, BIG, Gensler, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Perkins & Will and Eric Owen Moss Architects. But the long list of eight contains only US practices. The most internationally recognised are Morphosis and NBBJ.

The full list of invited firms can be viewed here.

The remaining firms include:

Bialosky & Partners Architects (with Architecture Research Office)
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (with SoL Harris Day Architects)
KZF Design (with Morphosis)
NBBJ
Richard L Bowen & Associates (with Weiss/Manfredi)
The Collaborative, Inc (with Miller Hull Partnership, LLC)
Westlake Reed Leskosky
WTW Architects (with Overland Partners Architects)

New Kent State architecture building competition attracts elite list of architects

2012-10-09T19:58:00-04:00

This is truly a significant list of 36 teams. Those who have applied include Zaha Hadid, who is deemed the leading female architect in the world; Coop Himelb(l)au, who created the Akron Art Museum; Thom Mayne of Morphosis; and numerous other designers of note. Seven of the teams contain AIA National Firm Award winners, geographically located from Boston to Seattle. Many are recognized for their work across the country and around the world.