Taubman Wing Opens

The new 36,000-square-foot wing was designed by Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Integrated Design Solutions of Troy, Michigan, as the local architect-of-record. The addition expands the architecure school's facilities – a 1974 building designed by Robert Swanson – by fifty percent. 

Per a statement from the school, "The wing and renovation provides additional studio space and areas for group projects and collaboration: eight capstone rooms, three meeting rooms, two lounges, a reading room and a 5,700-square-foot commons. The commons will also be used to host conferences, final reviews and other special events."

In addition to the hexagonal, ramped commons, the most striking aspects of Cohen's design are the clerestories that cap the studios and give the building its signature sawtooth profile. New architecture dean Jonathan Massey reitered this in the statement: "We are excited to form new living and learning relationships within its complex, carefully considered and sumptuously daylit spaces."