The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

The exterior expression and materials of this building respond to the traditional Georgian character of the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus while re-inventing some of these forms into more dynamic volumes with crisp details.

This building plan solves a complex program of combined teaching and research with a major research building and a smaller teaching structure. They are joined by a four-story rotunda capped by an observatory. The building has 36 labs and 200 faculty offices.

Structural and mechanical designs for the labs are interdependent. Paired concrete piers form six shafts to carry all mechanical and electrical services from the subterranean tunnel system to each lab.

Special spaces include:

• Remote observation control rooms
• Clean rooms
• High bay areas
• X-ray
• Vibration isolation
• Three computer centers for high energy physics, astrophysics, and physics
• 330-seat auditorium
• Library
• Classrooms
• Machine shops

The project was awarded through a limited design competition.

Completion: 1990
Size: 238,000 gsf
Cost: $33.3 million