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Industry pros striving to create healthier buildings
The PAE Living Building, here under construction in April, has required substantial effort by the project team to ensure materials used meet high standards. (DJC file)
Demand for healthier space is surging amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A recent report, “A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings,” revealed that 92 percent of survey respondents (many of the world’s leading real estate investors) expect demand for healthy buildings to grow in the next three years.
Yet the next step of finding healthy and sustainable materials to construct the buildings is a tricky one.
Following the recent Library Building Award announcement, the American Institute of Architects now revealed this year s best new schools and learning centers. The Institute s Committee on Architecture for Education recognized six projects with its Awards of Excellence and five with Awards of.
Triangular glass panels wrap Knight Center at the University of Oregon
A double-skin glass facade envelops the Knight Center, an Oregon research facility designed by American firms Ennead Architects and Bora Architecture & Interiors.
The building – officially called the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact – is located on the University of Oregon s campus in Eugene.
Angled glass panels designed to look like water cascading over rock
The project was made possible by a $500 million (£359 million) gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny. Over the years, Phil Knight has been a significant contributor to the university, where he earned his bachelor s degree in 1959.
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Ennead Architects Designs a New Science Campus for the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact encourages innovation through teamwork and transparency.
Courtesy Bruce Damonte
Looking across busy Franklin Boulevard from the University of Oregon’s historic campus in Eugene to its striking new Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, two architectural features immediately stand out, both functional yet offering unmistakable symbolism. A double-skin facade with triangular shading panels made of fritted glass, bringing light into a well-sealed envelope, acts as a kind of contemporary quilt: a unified whole from many pieces. A sky-bridge also connects this 160,000-square-foot facility the main campus, its column-free span seeming to defy gravity.