2024-11-21T18:17:19-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150027904/u-m-taubman-college-of-architecture-and-urban-planning-opens-a-new-wing-designed-by-preston-scott-cohen Noémie Despland-Lichtert 2017-09-11T20:17:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vx/vxc1325i69tkw9or.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/taubmancollege" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning</a>,&nbsp;at the University of Michigan, opened on September 8th with a new building designed by&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/55292232/preston-scott-cohen-inc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Preston Scott Cohen</a>. The&nbsp; A. Alfred Taubman Wing&nbsp;will offer an additional 36,000 square feet of studio and common spaces for reviews, conferences and other events. The building is designed to facilitate encounters and conversation, and to transform the relationship between faculty and students.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/k1/k1sxb6nbw16ly0n4.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/k1/k1sxb6nbw16ly0n4.jpg?w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo by Peter Smith</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ny/nyni5j3970i78rh7.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ny/nyni5j3970i78rh7.jpg?w=514" alt=" A. Alfred Taubman Wing; Photo by Peter Smith." title=" A. Alfred Taubman Wing; Photo by Peter Smith."></a></p><figcaption>Photo by Peter Smith</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hi/hi2wqerrsui25bqe.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hi/hi2wqerrsui25bqe.jpg?w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo by Peter Smith</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cfh3xyepwyb1660q.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cfh3xyepwyb1660q.jpg?w=514"></a></p> <figcaption>Photo by Peter Smith</figcaption></figure><p>Read the full press release:&nbsp;</p> <p>The A. Alfred Taubman Wing provides an additional 36,000 square feet to the existing 72,000 square foot facility project includes a renovation of the existing college facilities. Architecture and urban planning education increasingly calls on spaces for group work and spaces to design and build. The wing and renovations provide additional studio space per student and collaboration rooms, as well as 5,700 square foot commons space which will al...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/125743966/a-alfred-taubman-shopping-mall-pioneer-university-of-michigan-donor-dies-at-91 Alexander Walter 2015-04-20T13:58:00-04:00 >2020-10-14T16:51:51-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/96/96swkf98ds8sht8i.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>He donated millions to the University of Michigan&rsquo;s health care center, medical school library and college of architecture and urban planning; to Harvard&rsquo;s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and to Brown University&rsquo;s public policy and American institutions program. He led a $75 million expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and was a director of the Detroit Symphony and other cultural organizations.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Just last week, Taubman was still attending the <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/125374469/robot-gives-a-helping-hand-as-taubman-college-breaks-ground-on-new-school-addition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">groundbreaking</a> of the new wing of the Art &amp; Architecture building&nbsp;at University of Michigan's Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning.</p>