Duke University Breeden Hall and Ford Library

Fuqua School of Business

Durham, North Carolina

Breeden Hall and the Ford Library are our most recent projects at the Fuqua School of Business. They are part of an integrated strategic planning process, and our successful fourteen-year working relationship that has included new construction and renovations designed to foster formal and informal interactions and provide a physical framework for interdisciplinary learning and research.

The Magat Academic Center was the first phase of our strategic master plan. The 60,000 square-foot expansion and renovation project houses faculty offices, student/visitor services, and a Global Telecommunications Suite with seminar and meeting rooms designed for "off site" learning. Phase II, the 48,000 square-foot Fox Student Center, is the centerpiece of campus life and new "living room" for the Business School Complex.

Breeden Hall is linked to the Fox Student Center and East Fuqua campus by a three-level skylit atrium, an extension of the School's Mallway. It is designed with a great sense of openness and transparency - both in the interior common spaces and library, and to the natural landscape outside. The program includes: business-style classrooms, executive lecture rooms with distance learning and TelePresence capabilities, breakout and team rooms, and large multipurpose rooms which open to an outdoor roof terrace. The TelePresence classroom provides business school students with access to professors, business leaders and guest lecturers located around the globe.

The 18,000 square-foot Ford Library, located at the second level, provides students with a spacious setting to support browsing as well as more intense studying that occurs during the short 6-week terms. It is designed for reader comfort, with abundant natural light, a variety of comfortable lounge seating, reading tables and generous display space.

Link to the video presentation of the Fuqua School's TelePresence Suite.