EskewDumezRipple has announced plans for a new academic building for the Georgia Institute of Technology in midtown Atlanta.

The 416,500-square-foot Tech Square 3 will anchor Phase 3 of the newly created Technology Square, which links back to Georgia Tech’s main campus. The design calls for a “vertically-oriented quad” that directly engages the 5th Street corridor through a characteristically Southern ‘porch’ socializing space located at the ground level. 

Two 14- and 18-story masses are combined into one building that supports the university’s Executive MBA program and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering connected by a central shared core. A vertical rooftop garden element completes the project, situated on top of an architectural staircase that helps unify the building with an outdoor promenade.

EskewDumezRipple says: “The project, and its mission to empower Georgia Tech students, faculty, and stakeholders to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition, seeks to benefit from the proximity to and interaction with nearby startups, researchers, labs, corporate innovators, and venture capitalists in this vibrant intellectual environment.”

The project is being delivered in collaboration with local studio Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio (RJTR). EskewDumezRipple has also announced plans for the Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum in New Orleans and the Burden Welcome Center in Baton Rogue recently. Georgia Tech, meanwhile, has welcomed a host of new faculty this semester, highlighted by the addition of MASS Design Group Founding Principal Michael Murphy.