Transformative additions to the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts campus designed by architects KieranTimberlake are set to make their public debut this fall.

Located on the Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus, the project includes the addition of a new academic building, Weil Hall, as well as extensive expansions and renovations to the existing Fumihiko Maki-designed Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. These projects represent part of a much larger $280 million effort to rework the university's East End, and include replacing a series of disjointed surface parking lots and lawns with a grassy expanse dotted with trees. Master planning for the East End was led by landscape architect Michael Vergason. 

Work on the remaining structures included in the larger East End plan is set to continue into 2021.

The newly constructed Anabeth and John Weil Hall joins the school's existing collection of architecture, art, and design studio and lecture facilities by adding new state-of-the-art graduate studios, classrooms, and digital fabrication spaces. The glass-faced building, part of the school's effort to mix creative disciplines, will contain graduate studio facilities for both architecture and art, an office suite for administration, and a new commons. The complex is already in use for the school's 2019 Fall semester.

The expanded and renovated museum next door includes the addition of a 34-foot facade wrapped in polished stainless-steel as well as a new first floor cafe and a series of lower-level galleries designed by Escher GuneWardena Architecture in partnership with Trivers. 

The museum is set to reopen to the public on September 28th and will debut with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, a collection of recent works by the Chinese artist that focus on China's recent past.