In the last two years or so, BOORA Architects has conducted extensive master planning work for Stanford University. Now the Portland firm has received a bigger commision: the $70 million Environment and Energy (E+E) Building, which will accommodate a new interdisciplinary initiative for the integrated study of energy and natural systems.
As gleaned from BOORA’s website, The E+E is the first building on Stanford’s new Science and Engineering Quad, and will follow many of Stanford University’s original planning principles developed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Coolidge in the 1888 General Plan. The organization of axes, alignments and setbacks, as well as building massing and the arcade typology that were part of the original plan will be continued in the design of the E+E Building. Stanford’s established architectural language of tiled roof systems and stone cladding will be used to maintain a consistent campus fabric, while modern technology and design […]
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