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Global Architecture & Design Award bestowed to LEO A DALY

Thurgood Marshall Hall earns design excellence and innovation award

Thurgood Marshall Hall of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy

“Working with the University of Maryland to create this state-of-the-art environment for public policy education and the world’s first Do Good Institute has been an incredible journey and achievement for all involved,” celebrated Principal-in-Charge Rauzia Ally. “We are extremely honored and proud to be recognized for the powerful democratic design of Thurgood Marshall Hall.

Out of thousands of submissions from more than 45 countries, LEO A DALY’s Thurgood Marshall Hall earns outstanding built project in the Institutional category of the Global Architecture & Design Awards 2023 (GADA). Spanning architecture, landscaping, urban and interior design, selected entries are carefully evaluated by an international jury panel composed of established scholars, esteemed professionals, prominent press members, creative design professionals, and experienced entrepreneurs.

As a building dedicated to democratic thought, visibility and transparency were metaphors necessary to infuse into the design. “These ideals became organizing principles from every element of the interior program and exterior expression,” shared Global Design Principal Irena Savakova. “Activity and discourse are on display everywhere in the building and we integrated sound privacy without interrupting visual connectivity.”

 

students and professor sitting in discussion area

The jewel piece of the design concept is the deliberative chamber, an oval-shaped learning environment created for United Nations-style debate. The chamber was formally identified as a signature organizing element of the program, and as such it is placed as a floating, sculptural element within the transparent glass box of the East building entry. In this way, it becomes an object of curiosity and inspiration that can gather attention from all arrival pathways and energize the Gateway Plaza of the College Park university campus 

The high-performance design of Thurgood Marshall Hall includes a targeted, customized solar strategy. Location specific encapsulated translucent fins and shading trellises coincide with the solar cycle, maximizing sunlight, framing unique views and minimizing energy use. 

Rethinking the Future (RTF) established GADA in 2012 with the aim to sustainably advance the built environment and to connect and inspire the next generation across the globe. 

campus view from Thurgood Marshall Hall to chapel

Winnebago Child Care Center

Winnebago Child Care Center

Winnebago , Nebraska

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s urgent effort to preserve its stories, language and traditions across generations lies at the heart of this child-care center. The design serves as a scaffold for storytelling, creating layers of meaning out of its parti, site relationship, geometry, organization, materials, patterns and colors. Its program of educational, play and dwelling spaces serves the wellness and developmental needs of the whole family. 

Ho-Chunk stories infuse the design in abstract form, teaching history. A hub-and-spoke parti embodies the Thunderhawk, conveying strength and protection. Program spaces extend from a central Rotunda whose shape recalls a traditional Ciporoke dwelling. Louvered, 360-degree clerestory windows cast dynamic shadows in patterns recalling Ho-Chunk basket-weaving. East-west circulation honors the tribe’s sun-centered creation story. 

Three wings extend from the rotunda, their rectangular forms embodying the Longhouse. To the southwest, the daycare wing engages children at each developmental level, including special needs. Outdoor play equipment follows the existing topography, naturally separating age groups. The east wing offers career training for adults. The northern wing lodges the children of overnight workers. Adjacent, a row of tiny houses facilitates transitional living for young adults. 

 

Client 

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

At a glance

30,000 SF

Features

Designed to reflect Ho-Chunk culture, the center incorporates abstract depictions of tales, creating captivating spaces. The hub-and-spoke parti represents strength and protection, while the central Rotunda reflects the traditional dwelling, nurturing educational and play areas.

Services

Programming 

Architectural 

Mechanical 

Electrical engineering

Fire Protection 

Plumbing 

Civil Engineering

Interior Design 

Construction Administration 

Mercer University, Spearman C. Godsey, Science & Research Center

Mercer University, Spearman C. Godsey, Science & Research Center

Macon, GA

The $44 million, 143,410-SF Spearman C. Godsey Science Center gives undergraduates at Mercer University access to 60+ state-of-the-art teaching and research labs, accommodating a growing enrollment and research activity in chemistry, biology, and neurosciences.

The Patterson Building was demolished to make room for the signature structure, which now anchors a science quadrangle incorporating School of Medicine and School of Engineering facilities and Willet Science Center.

Designed by LEO A DALY and Hussey Gay Bell, the science building gives undergraduates at Mercer unprecedented access to graduate-level research facilities. Aside from general biology and chemistry labs, the center includes specialized teaching labs in soil and field biology, anatomy and physiology, infectious diseases, molecular and cellular biology, organic chemistry, problems in chemistry and biochemistry.

Additional specialized labs housing instrumentation and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, as well as a laser lab, computational center, growth room, cold room and tissue culture suite are included in the facility. Lab space is also devoted to science courses offered through Penfield College and Tift College of Education.

The designers used an inclusive planning process based on PKAL principles to maximize collaboration in the design process and increase opportunities for multidisciplinary learning in the finished product. The planning process identified core adjacencies, efficiencies, and opportunities for collaboration in the new building, and arranged them to maximize chance encounters between students and faculty of different research disciplines.

The program is laid out in two wings that come together in the corner commons space. The commons space is located in a prominent corner of the site, forming a gateway to the new STEM quad created by Spearman S. Godsey Science Center and the existing engineering buildings. The commons space serves as an informal gathering space in the building, it is populated with “coffee house” style seating to encourage small group collaborations and study. One of the corridors is intentionally oversized, allowing students to spill into the building wings and engage in for breakout sessions outside lecture halls, teaching labs and the research labs on the upper floors.

Client 

Mercer University

At a glance

  • 143, 410-SF

Features

  • 60+ State-of-the-Art Labs
  • 10,465 SF of Research Space
  • 7 Lecture Halls
  • 46 Offices
  • 3,000 SF of Shell Space for Growth
  • 89 Fume Hoods
  • 880 Tons of Air Conditioning
  • 12.5 miles of Plumbing Pipe

Services

  • Master Planning
  • Programming
  • Architectural Design
  • Interior Design
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Construction administration services

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Administration and Laboratory Building

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Administration and Laboratory Building

Omaha, NE

Serving the University of Nebraska Medical Center, this new “innovation hub” this new 350,000 SF administration and laboratory building will anchor the new mixed-use, urban development.

Stretching multiple floors, the laboratory and office building will provide a work environment reflective of both hybrid and in-office working models. With growth of the University’s research enterprise demand for additional research space will be resolved through this project, though the optimal stacking and work flows within the labs and between labs to preserve key credentiality and safety boundaries, were the organizing drivers which led to the new building design. The project includes:

  • Mapping workflows and critical adjacencies with considering lab certifications and accreditations sought to be maintained or integrated.
  • 24,121 SF of Finished Dry Lab Space (3rd Floor)
  • 48,242 of Unfinished Lab Shell Space (4th & 5th Floor)
  • 24,121 SF of Finished Wet Lab Space (6th Floor)
  • 13,136 SF of Admin Office Space (2nd floor) with 11,000 SF of Unfinished UNMC
  • Admin Office Shell Space (on 1st & 2nd Floor)
  • Loading Dock & Service Yard

Client 

University of Nebraska Medical Center

At a glance

180,870 Gross Square Feet

 

Features

Finished Dry & Wet Laboratories

Unfinished Laboratory Shell Space

Administrative Offices

Administration Office Shell Space

Parking Garage

 

Services

Project Management

Architecture

Laboratory Planning

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Structural Engineering

Fire Protection Engineering

Interior Design

 

CHI Health, Creighton University Medical Center at Bergan Campus, School of Medicine

CHI Health, Creighton University Medical Center at Bergan Campus, School of Medicine

Omaha, NE

The new CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center Bergan Mercy merges Creighton University Medical Center with CHI Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center. Together they form a contemporary, leading academic health system including an ambulatory clinic, medical school, teaching hospital and Level-I trauma center.

Unifying two cultures through design

Recognizing the challenges presented from the operational and cultural differences between the academic side and the private healthcare side of the merger, we developed solutions that allowed them to coalesce into a single academic health system. We maximized flexibility of the design by including touch-down spaces that are available for medical teams and teams of residents to use as needed. This makes maximum use of the space and ultimately produces a more efficient design. Doctors and residents also work out of shared office spaces, encouraging collaboration and access to faculty.

Converting medical office building into school of medicine

Floors two through six of a medical office building were fully renovated to house Creighton University School of Medicine’s academic and administrative space. A mix of collaborative spaces and cutting-edge care environments allows physicians to grow in their specialties by working with others, while students learn clinical techniques from the very best. Patients also benefit from a modern, wellness-focused approach to care.

The clinic building is designed to foster care by inter-professional teams. It features eight pods of 17 rooms, each arranged around a centralized work area. Patients enter from a public-facing hallway that’s intended to be less busy than those in many clinics. Staff enters through the back from the work areas, where students, residents and staff can consult on cases outside the earshot of patients.

Incorporating the medical school into the private facility also required creating room for students in patient areas – space for collaboration and learning in a real-life setting. The new ICU rooms are much larger than those at the pre-renovation Bergan or Creighton University Medical Center in order to accommodate not only family members and the extra technology and equipment in use today, but also the groups of medical students, residents and others making rounds as part of the hospital’s new teaching role.

Client 

CHI Health, Creighton University

At a glance

Five floors

25 resident/fellow on-call rooms

Eight faculty on-call rooms

15 student on-call rooms

Resident lounges

Student lounge

Features

Floors two-six of medical office building renovated for school of medicine

Touch-down spaces for medical and resident teams

Doctors and residents work in collaborative spaces

Many spaces enlarged to make room for residents and doctors

Services

Medical planning

Architectural design

Structural design

Civil engineering

Anoka-Ramsey Community College, School of Nursing

Anoka-Ramsey Community College, School of Nursing

Coon Rapids, MN

Home to the largest program on campus; nursing, as well as the business program and general-purpose classrooms, this 1970s, multi-discipline academic building had maxed out capacity within their existing space. Given the melting pot of student activity, the design evolved with the input of students and faculty to include more than just classrooms, but robust social spaces throughout the building that included open and accessible faculty offices and a commons that extended learning to the outdoors with new terrace. Some of the program elements included:

Active Learning Environments: Created collaborative classroom environments, establishing more flexible and hands-on learning spaces that provide the entire campus community with flexible learning and gathering spaces, maximizing every square foot of the building, and worked to eliminate MN State standard variances and achieve performance and program needs.

Simulation Suite: Provides dedicated control and observation/debrief spaces that increase learning flexibility and student exposure to needed simulation time in supplement to clinical hours.

Open Labs: Created dedicated spaces for individual student hands-on simulated spaces reflective of real-world experiences to close workforce experience gap.

Skills Labs: Were carefully configured with equipment placement, student flow, and realism where appropriate to mimic how students might encounter their first days as a licensed practitioner.

Engineering Infrastructure Upgrades: Replaced and modernized mechanical, electrical, fire and life safety, and A/V infrastructure, improving building and teaching efficiencies and user comfort throughout.

Client 

Anoka-Ramsey Community College

At a glance

  • 31,150-SF

Features

  • Simulation Suite
  • Open Labs
  • Skills Labs
  • Active Learning Environments
  • Met & Exceeded SB2030 Energy Goals

Services

  • Architectural Design
  • Interior Design
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Construction administration services

University of California, Merced, Engineering and Science Building

University of California, Merced, Engineering and Science Building

Merced, CA

As the first of three new engineering and natural science buildings on campus, this new engineering and classroom building was designed with the “Complete Engineer” in mind.

 

As you enter the first floor you are immersed in student-driven spaces that are supported by a central corridor that opens directly to the exterior and concentrates activity within the outdoor living room. From there you are greeted with a glass–enclosed stair that leads to an active program of engineering education and collaboration that spills out of the classrooms and into the central corridor, fostering casual cross-disciplinary interaction of students and faculty. This vertical connection continues at several points along its length, allowing for greater connectivity between floors and provide light-filled gathering spaces on each floor. As you explore deeper into the research building, interactive learning environments welcome all users, creating an academic hub that includes computer labs, a machine shop, general and lab classrooms, collaborative and quiet spaces, and a vivarium.

 

The L-shaped building defines two sides of the outdoor living space with a grand, three-story passageway that welcomes students entering from the main campus pathways while framing views to the campus. Its glass sunshades overlay the structure and provide an outdoor space that is several degrees cooler than in the sunlight. Once mature, trees will form a dense canopy over the outdoor living space providing further shade, encouraging student collaboration beyond the walls of learning.  

Client 

University of California, Merced

At a glance

  • Four-Stories
  • 166,00 SF

Features

  • Wet and dry lab spaces for student and faculty research
  • Enclosed lab support zones for researchers
  • Functional support spaces (faculty offices, lab personnel offices, administrative areas, TA offices)
  • 24 classroom labs
  • Computer labs
  • Machine shop
  • Vivarium
  • Scholarly activity rooms

Services

  • Project Management
  • Architectural Design
  • Construction Documents,
  • Contract Administration

Florida Atlantic University, Engineering & Computer Science Building

Florida Atlantic University, Engineering & Computer Science Building

Boca Raton, FL

As an internationally recognized University for cutting edge research and education in the areas of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), computer engineering, electrical engineering, bioengineering, civil, environmental and geomatics engineering, mechanical engineering, and ocean engineering, the Florida Atlantic University needed to expand its research laboratory and learning spaces where students could gain the knowledge to design tomorrow’s innovative, nimble and intelligent processes. The new 97,000-square-foot, five-story facility includes state-of-the-art hands-on teaching labs, classrooms, as well as a visualized cloud computing infrastructure, enabling the use of information technology resources on demand.

Focusing on the Students and Processes: Upon arriving in the lobby, students and users are submerged with interactive learning on displays. Systems such as temperature, water flows, energy usage, and pressure valves are celebrated, showcasing real-time usage of the building, creating an interactive tool that changes the way engineering is taught. As the student travels deeper within the building they are immersed with engineering education and collaboration spaces that spill out of the classrooms and into the central commons, exposing the engineering design process to students of other disciplines utilizing the wide range of classrooms.

Student Driven Spaces: As you travel vertically through the building, programming elements strengthen cross-disciplinary environments that bring students and faculty together in unexpected ways and change the way engineering is taught. Student-driven project spaces feature computer engineering spaces, computer build/circuitry labs, electronic engineering research labs, bio informatics labs, general classrooms, open and collaborative user spaces, individual focus spaces, and problem-solving rooms for more concentrated, undisturbed learning.

LEED Platinum Design: Since science buildings are typically energy-consuming by nature, the University and our project team wanted to build a facility that would showcase the University’s commitment to sustainability. Some of the green elements included chilled beam technology, temperature and lighting control systems, solar hot water system, elevation features designed to increase energy efficiency, north facing skylights for diffused lighting in computer science labs and offices, and a green roof.

Client 

Florida Atlantic University

At a glance

96,000 SF

LEED Platinum certification

Features

  • Interactive Learning-On-Display
  • Computer Engineering Labs
  • Electronic Engineering Research Labs
  • Bio Informatics Labs
  • General Classrooms
  • Electronic library

Services

  • Architecture
  • Engineering
  • Interior Design
  • Construction Administration

College of Saint Mary, Health Science and Nursing Labs

College of Saint Mary, Health Science and Nursing Labs

Omaha, NE

LEO A DALY has served as the College of Saint Mary’s campus architect/engineer since 1955. Over the past 60+ years, we have updated, revised and improved multiple buildings and systems on the campus, including multiple science education facilities.

Science Building and Lab Renovations

The original three-story, 32,000-SF, 1964 building had not been substantially upgraded for years. College leadership wanted all the renovation work to be completed over the summer break, so classes could use the building the following fall semester. The project included:

  • New lab casework
  • New laboratory hoods with upgraded ventilation
  • New cadaver lab
  • Renovating all three levels and a small auditorium
  • Mechanical and plumbing upgrades
  • Energy-efficient windows
  • New greenhouse addition
  • Electrical and technology upgrades
  • ADA upgrades
  • New restrooms
  • New roof
  • New finishes

Given the aggressive schedule, a contractor was preselected by the college and brought on in the early phases of the project to help plan and order long-lead items. The final project came in on budget and the college opened the renovated Science Building in time for fall classes.

Walsh Hall, Nursing and Physician Assistant (PA) Labs

This 30,000-SF project adapted a 1955-era floor structure to accommodate large rooms that are equipment- and technology-intensive and have critical adjacency requirements. The project included the addition of a new physician assistant (PA) lab featuring 17 exam tables and a scrub station. Just down the hall are six exam simulation and testing rooms. Each pair of exam rooms shares an observation room where instructors – out of site behind one-way glass – can observe, instruct and test students in real-life scenarios. 

The expanded Nursing Program facility includes 16- and eight-bed nursing labs, each with an adjacent break-out classroom. Like PA, nursing has a suite of simulation rooms, in this case four hospital rooms sharing two observation rooms. The hospital simulation rooms include general and specialty care, such as an OB/GYN room and a pediatrics room. 

In addition to real or simulated medical equipment, the nursing labs and simulation rooms are equipped with high-tech, programmable patient mannequins. The mannequins are controlled by instructors to exhibit a variety of symptoms and to respond, both positively and negatively, to treatment. The combination of mannequins and realistic hospital and clinic environments are invaluable in helping students make the transition from academic theory to practice.

Client 

College of Saint Mary

At a glance

63,787 SF (multiple phased renovations)

Computer and nursing labs

Nursing simulation labs

Administrative and staff offices

ADA/Code compliance upgrades

Building systems upgrades

Exterior envelopes repaired, windows replaced
User comfort (lighting, temperature, humidity, control)

Features

Interior spaces renewed, including academically superior spaces with audio-visual and telecom capabilities

Variety of science education classroom types, collaboration and meeting space

Increased energy efficiency with new HVAC system, LED lighting, all new windows, added continuous insulation to the exterior walls

Services

Architectural design

Mechanical, electrical, structural and civil design

Interior design

Preservation services

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