Another Tod Williams Billie Tsien building is being demolished to make way for a BIG project in Baltimore

2021-09-25T16:37:00-04:00

Two big name architecture firms are changing places on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

The university has commenced demolition of its Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed Mattin Center that was originally completed on its Homewood campus in 2001.

The demolition will make way for a new $250 million student center designed by BIG with help of Rockwell Group and academic design specialist Shepley Bulfinch.

The erstwhile center was designed as a place to “nurture the creative arts in a school where the primary focus has always been science and engineering.”

Featuring a dance studio, black box theater, art studios and a café, the center’s design incorporated clerestory windows focused on producing as much natural light and clear sightlines as possible in order to create a sense of “visual community” amongst the student users.

“I loved walking in and disconnecting from the academic rigor to create something artistic with a group of people, and the building definit...

BIG selected to design new Hopkins Student Center

2020-11-05T13:46:00-05:00

It appears to be a big week for student center design announcements: after Rice University revealed its pick of Adjaye Associates to replace the Rice Memorial Center in Houston with a three-story structure, now Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University presented renderings for the new Hopkins Student Center, designed by BIG.

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Dubbed "The Village," the proposal was chosen as the winner of an international design competition led by a special advisory committee which took into consideration more than 1,200 student, faculty, staff, and alumni responses to the four finalist design proposals.

BIG's competition team also includes Shepley Bulfinch as Architect of Record, Rockwell Group as Interior Architects, and Michael Van Valkenburg Associates as Landscape Architects.

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"The approximately 150,000-square-foot building will include spaces for relaxation and socialization, creative and performing arts spaces, student resources and sup...

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Another Tod Williams Billie Tsien building is being demolished to make way for a BIG project in Baltimore

BIG selected to design new Hopkins Student Center