Architects discuss design of UI Business Instructional Facility
By Christine Des Garennes
Friday October 17, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Light from four-story windows floods the atrium of the new Business Instructional Facility on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the firm started by UI alum Cesar Pelli, designed the sustainable 'green' building.
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Click here for a photo slide show and audio of the interview with Cesar Pelli, his son and fellow architect Rafael, and Craig Copeland, a senior associate at their firm.
Native Argentinian and University of Illinois alumnus Cesar Pelli is the architect behind the new Business Instructional Facility, a $64 million building at the corner of Sixth Street and Gregory Drive in Champaign.
Considered one of the campus's first "green" buildings, the Business Instructional Facility features a literal green roof, complete with plants, solar panels to provide energy to the building and sophisticated lighting and air-handling systems. And its design features, such as floating staircases and a commons area lit naturally by four stories of windows, has turned a few heads.
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