Sellinger School of Business and Management,
Loyola College
Baltimore
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

A building to anchor the main quadrangle and empower the campus core

© Matt Wargo

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Loyola's new business school responds to the college's academic requirements as well as enhancing the historically significant and much admired academic quadrangle on campus. Given the quadrangle's partial boundary of Collegiate Gothic classroom buildings constructed in the early 1900's, and its centerpiece, the Alumni Chapel, this facility completes its formal frame and gives the chapel a new place of honor.

The architects needed to build a thoroughly modern building that would blend in with the Collegiate Gothic atmosphere of the academic core. They also overcame the challenges of a thirty-foot drop in grade at the quadrangle's northwestern corner. The school, plus fourteen common-use classrooms, was designed into one 50,000 square-foot, five-level addition, expanding the existing five-story Maryland Hall structure along the north side of the quadrangle. Taking advantage of the thirty-foot slope at the northwest corner of the quadrangle, the architects used floor-to-floor heights in the first two floors to accommodate large high-tech classroom spaces.

The central feature of the Sellinger Building is a five-story interior atrium space connected at all levels by ornamental stairs, bridges, and balconies. The space is a compelling gathering place accessible from the lower arrival court and Sellinger's main entrance on the quadrangle. Aligning the new building with Maryland Hall's double-loaded corridors brings daylight to both interiors. The eighty-foot high stone and glass facade facing the street is an exciting new symbol of entry.

Care has been taken to optimize views to the quadrangle and bring abundant natural light to the interiors of both existing and new in order to provide visual orientation and a sense of well being. In addition to manipulating masses and volumes to harmonize with the older buildings, a matching rough-cut local stone and limestone trim was employed to seamlessly join the new into the fabric of the old.

Formal name of Project:
The Sellinger School of Business and Management, Loyola College

Location:
Baltimore

Gross square footage:
50,000 sq. ft.

Total construction cost:
$15 million

Owner:
Loyola College