University at Albany - SUNY

New School of Business Building

Albany, New York

This new building will serve as the hub of learning and innovation in commercialization and entrepreneurship for the School’s expanding programs. Our project goals include two important client mandates: to design learning spaces that enable active learning and student engagement; and to support the institution’s core strategic initiative of becoming the leading public business school in the northeast.

Link to the video presentation of our design for the School of Business Building.

Our design creates a distinctive, contemporary identity for the School, drawing inspiration from Edward Durrell Stone’s modernist Academic Podium and residence halls that dominate the uptown campus. At entry level, the two-story concourse creates a pedestrian street, linking various business programs within the building, and the trading lab adjacent to the main entry. These spaces, and the second-level “living room”, will encourage informal gathering, inter-program collaboration, and extended learning outside the classroom. Other key program elements include: technologically advanced classrooms and meeting spaces, breakout rooms for team projects, expanded space for career services, student reception areas, collaborative research centers, graduate assistant work space, and a café with an outdoor garden.