UNC Charlotte Uptown Building Renderings

UNC Charlotte reveals uptown building design Charlotte Business Journal - by Will Boye Staff Writer NC Charlotte has unveiled plans for an eye-catching, cantilevered building in uptown Charlotte that the school says marks its commitment to the citys business district. The $50.4 million Center City Building will be constructed at Ninth and Brevard streets. It will feature 143000 square feet of classrooms, public space and faculty offices. The building was designed by architectural firm Kieran Timberlake in partnership with Charlotte-based Gantt Huberman Architects. Construction starts this spring, with the building slated to open in fall 2011. It makes a bold statement about the university, says Michael Smith, president of Charlotte Center City Partners. It lets you know that this is the public university for this region. Smith says academia has become an important component of uptown development. The UNC Charlotte building adds to a growing portfolio of institutions such as Johnson & Wales University and Wake Forest University that have established a presence uptown or plan to. During the design process, UNC Charlotte settled on a basic building shape that it termed the stack of books, says UNC Charlotte Chancellor Phillip Dubois. We thought that was a nice metaphor for an academic building, he says. We wanted to be distinctive. We just didnt want to be another bank building. We didnt want to be another office tower. We wanted to be a little different, and I think we got ...

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