Just came across this blog post from July 2016. Not sure how preliminary or conceptual this rendering is, but it seems to be the first look at what the new Science Building will be. The left side appears to be offices and the right labs and classrooms. Kinda wish they hadn’t gone with the Colvard split design, that’s just confusing and a waste of real estate.
This blog post is nearly a year old. I doubt this is in any way a rendering of what the actual building will look like. For one thing, you know it will be clad in brick and not white as shown, and I doubt this is even what the basic shape will look like. Plus, from this drawing , it is going to be a 4 story building that is somehow smaller than a relatively modest sized tree. I strongly suspect this is just generic “sciencey-building” for this company.
I’ve said this before, but for the amount of money they received and how much raving they’ve done I’m not super impressed. I know the servers and labs and whatnot are expensive but still. Its the most expensive education building in NC history. It should be more impressive than this.
That’s the NC state library, I’m just saying our science building could look a little cutting edge, Like use the brick but it doesn’t need to b e A Brick
The current look of our campus is the result of work begun during Jim Woodward’s time as Chancellor. He felt that as we grew in size, academic offerings and reputation, that making our campus fit the picture in people’s minds of a significant university mattered.