University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Building Type: Academic

Construction Type: New

Cost: $124.7-million

Square Footage: 280,895

Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Contractor: Gilbane Building Company/Clark Construction Company joint venture

Opened: 2009

This project stands six stories tall at its L-shaped center and three stories high around its perimeter along Tappan and Hill streets. It created a sunny winter garden, complete with a cafe; a 500-seat auditorium; a...

Salisbury University, Salisbury, Md.

Building Type: Residential

Construction Type: Renovation

Cost: $7.1-million

Square Footage: 21,000

Architect: Grimm + Parker

Contractor: Holder Construction Company

Opened: 2010

This renovation, done to LEED-silver standards, brought recycled materials, environmentally healthy finishes, and high-efficiency laundry equipment. A 27-seat classroom was added, along with a new elevator for accessibility. With...

Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Building Type: Library

Construction Type: Renovation

Cost: $3-million

Square Footage: 15,274

Architect: Space Design Plus

Contractor: OmniBuild

Opened: 2009

This renovation was intended to create a dynamic, collaborative environment that would serve students' academic needs while also providing social-networking opportunities. The facility offers group- and individual-study areas, some of them casual, as well as computer work stations. Available services...

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Progress on two building projects at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has slowed amid disagreements over their siting.

University officials want to move the School of Freshwater Sciences, which is now housed in the Great Lakes Water Institute. They had once considered expanding the school on that site, near Lake Michigan. But the chancellor, Carlos Santiago, points out that it is also next to giant coal-storage piles, which makes raising money for an expansion difficult.

Administrators would like to see the school moved to the Reed Street Yards, a planned redevelopment of a former industrial site. But faculty members and scientists say the location would obstruct the school's research ship,

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Curry College, Milton, Mass.

Building Type: Campus Center

Construction Type: New

Cost: $32-million

Square Footage: 84,000

Architect: CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares; LDL Studio

Contractor: Suffolk Construction Company

Opened: 2008

Not many college buildings draw on the lessons of shopping malls, but this campus center treats a dining hall, a gym, a fitness center, mailboxes, and a bookstore as its anchor tenants,...

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