This teaching laboratory sits at the eastern edge of the University of Illinois campus at UrbanaÐChampaign. Three linear bars, set at right angles to each other, connect two widely separated existing buildings housing the school's chemical and life sciences departments. The repetitive linear bars accommodate flexible laboratory and office space. By tying the existing buildings together, the new building creates a more defined street edge and formal pedestrian entrance to the campus from the east. Jurors believed that the design by Ralph Johnson, FAIA was "intellectually appropriate for an engineering building."
