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New Student Union, ASU
Polytechnic Campus
Atwater Commons
Hamilton Village Towers,
University of Pennsylvania
Kenyon Athletic Center
Original Student Center
Expansion
The Warehouse
Tangeman University Center
University of Chicago, Graduate School of
Business
University Center of Lake
County
Westminster Theatre & Cultural Center
and Coastline Community College Learning CenterThe Warehouse
A repurposed warehouse gives a university a downtown presence.
This project for Syracuse University is part of an institutional initiative to help revitalize the city center by creating a dynamic downtown presence for the University. The 140,000-square-foot renovation of a 1920s warehouse building is a temporary home for the School of Architecture, and the permanent downtown location for several School of Visual and Performing Arts programs, the Goldring Arts Journalism program and a variety of community arts groups. Driven by an aggressive one-year fast-track schedule and $50-per-square-foot budget, the facility has been fully renovated with new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems, and the installation of new elevators.
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The building program comprises a 125-seat lecture hall, a reading room, café space, as well as community gallery space, an arts education center, artist support and development space, a community box office, and library storage, as well as studio and classroom areas and departmental offices over multiple floors. A plotter room and computer labs are located on the fifth floor; a model shop, laser cutters, and spray booths are on the lower level. The project is marked by its respect for and emphasis on the existing structural frame, rigorous use of basic systems and materials to delineate spaces within, and flexible studio floor plans. Its aesthetic is derived from that of the existing structure and materials, which have been revealed by the creation of open spaces in both the plan organization and façade design. A significant portion of the existing building skin was removed in order to create transparent, lively interior spaces open to the historic urban center. Shades of blue and clear glazing and orange insulated panel units animate the façade.
Formal name of project: The Warehouse
Location: 350 West Fayette Street, Syracuse, New York 13244
Gross square footage: 140,000 sq.ft.
Completion Date: February 2006
Total construction cost: $7.7 million
Owner: Syracuse University,
Office of Design and Construction
Architect:
Gluckman Mayner Architects (Design Architects)
250 Hudson Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212.929.0100
Fax: 212.929.0833
info@gluckmanmayner.com
www.gluckmanmayner.com
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