This three-story, 44,000 SF, $19.8 million new School of Business modernizes the business education program of this military college to prepare cadets to become leaders in the business community.
The program includes a business commons for collaborative group projects, a Bloomberg Financial Services Lab, Innovation Lab, mock interview rooms, sales classrooms and break out rooms, in addition to flat, flexible classrooms, tiered classrooms and faculty offices. The overarching exterior design goal was to create an aesthetic that honors and respects the traditional Spanish Moorish architectural style of the campus, but with modern materials and details that symbolize the evolution of the institution with an optimism for the future. Interior spaces are designed to provide a variety of learning environments that support today’s students, promoting collaboration and active learning and common spaces for chance encounters and productive collisions among students, faculty, and the business community.
Firm: Liollio Architecture in association with ikon5 Architects
Location: Charleston, SC
Photo: © 2021 Brad Feinknopf; © 2021 Peter Brentlinger
