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José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto, the Madrid-based firm headed by award-winning architect José Rafael Moneo, has been chosen to design Princeton University's new neuroscience and psychology buildings.
The buildings represent Moneo's first work at Princeton, which in the last four years has selected several noted architects and their firms for construction projects, including: Frank Gehry for the Lewis Library to be completed in 2007; Demetri Porphyrios for Whitman College, also to be completed in 2007; Frederick Fisher and Partners for a new building for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, a one-year project expected to begin in 2007; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners for the reconstructed Butler College, set to begin in 2007 and be finished in 2009; Hopkins Architects for the chemistry building, slated to be started in 2007 and finished in 2010; and Renzo Piano Building Workshop for an arts neighborhood design at the intersection of University Place and Alexander Street, for which preliminary plans will be unveiled this fall.
The buildings should encompass about 200,000 gross square feet and consist of multiple stories, according to Mark Wilson, program manager in Princeton's Office of Design and Construction. They will incorporate classrooms, laboratories, offices, meeting rooms and some specialty spaces, such as a place to house the University's functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.
The science neighborhood will include Fine, McDonnell, Jadwin and Peyton halls and the new Lewis Library and chemistry building on the east side of Washington Road and Thomas, Schultz, Moffett and Icahn labs, Eno and Guyot halls and the new neuroscience and psychology buildings on the west side. The two halves will be connected by a pedestrian bridge being designed by noted Swiss engineer Christian Menn in collaboration with HNTB, a New York-based architectural firm.