The architectural firm Foster + Partners, led by chair Norman Foster, has
been selected to design the new Yale School of Management (SOM) campus, President
Richard C. Levin has announced.
The new campus will be located on a 4.25-acre site on the east side of Whitney
Avenue at the Sachem Street intersection. Construction of the 230,000-square-foot
building, which is more than double the current SOM footprint of approximately
110,000 square feet, is expected to be completed by the fall of 2011.
“The genius of Lord Norman Foster is evident in urban landscapes around
the world, from the Hearst Tower in New York to the airport in Beijing,” said
Levin. “We are honored that an architect of his creativity and breadth
will leave a lasting legacy on the Yale campus and we are confident that in its
new home, the Yale School of Management will continue to attract and educate
leaders of business and society for generations to come.”
The new complex will house state-of-the-art classrooms, faculty offices, the
school’s academic centers, and student and community spaces. The increased
size of the campus will enable the school to expand the student body to approximately
300 students in each class; increase the size of the faculty; offer more in the
way of community facilities; and expand the school’s executive program
offerings.
The design will be site-specific and sensitive to the surrounding neighborhood.
Plans are to pursue LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green
Building Rating System) certification for the new construction.
“Great institutions of enduring impact invariably have physical homes of
notable architectural significance,” said SOM Dean Joel Podolny. “As
so many buildings on Yale’s campus demonstrate, architecture has the power
to inspire and to reinforce the loftiest of aspirations. Over the last few
years, the school has been singularly focused on developing a distinct model
of leadership and management education. So it is incredibly gratifying that we
have been able to secure the support and enthusiasm of President Levin, the Yale
Corporation and the broader Yale University community as well as enlist the visionary
talent of Lord Foster and his associates to create a campus that will be the
physical manifestation of our high aspirations for the Yale School of Management.”
Foster + Partners was selected by Yale following an international competition
for the project. Foster + Partners is an architectural and product design firm
with over 1,000 employees. Headquartered in London, the firm is led by Foster
(Lord Foster of Thames Bank), a 1962 graduate of the Yale School of Architecture
and the 1999 recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, given annually to “a
living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities
of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant
contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.”
“I consider my time at Yale to have been a key formative period in my development
as an architect,” commented Foster. “It is an honour to be able to
work once again in this context, and to contribute to Yale University’s
continuing tradition of excellence and innovation.”
Recent Foster + Partners projects include the new Wembley Stadium (completed
2007); plans for a zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi as part of the Masdar
Initiative; the Beijing Airport, which received Condé Nast Traveller’s “Innovation
and Design” award in April, 2007; the Hearst Tower, New York City’s
first Gold LEED certified office building, and the recipient of Emporis’ “Best
New Skyscraper” award, from a field of 467 eligible buildings worldwide,
completed in 2006; the Millennium Bridge in London, opened in 2000 (the first
new Thames crossing since the Tower Bridge was constructed in 1894); and the
Millau Viaduct in the south of France.
In the educational and cultural arena, Foster + Partners has completed numerous
commissions, including the Clark Center at Stanford University (2003); the Free
University in Berlin (2005); the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1999 – ongoing);
and the Great Court at the British Museum in London (2000). Gruzen Samton Architects
of New York will team with Foster + Partners as the architect of record for Yale
SOM.
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