Oregon Health & Science University today announced a $40 million anonymous donation - the largest in the school’s history. The gift will support the future construction of a new medical school building on OHSU’s South Waterfront campus, which they are now calling the Schnitzer Campus in honor of the Schnitzer family’s donation of the land there.
In a press release, OHSU president Joe Robertson said : “This gift has redefined what is possible to achieve. And that’s a great way to begin planning for the future. The truth is that it will take an unprecedented partnership between public and private funders to realize the potential of the Schnitzer Campus.”
You probably know what I’m gonna say next: How might this massive gift be reflected in the architecture of OHSU’s South Waterfront campus?
Looking at their initial foray there, the Center for Health and Healing by GBD Architects, future buildings you’d expect to have […]
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