Rice University broke ground for the William T. Cannady Hall, a 22,000-square-foot building that will serve the renowned Rice School of Architecture.
Sited across a courtyard and connected by an aerial walkway to Rice Architecture’s longtime home, MD Anderson Hall, the new structure is designed by Jeannette Kuo and Ünal Karamuk of Swiss architecture firm Karamuk Kuo. It will house a two-story public gallery, flexible teaching areas, research and fabrication space, and is expected to open in Fall, 2023. The Linbeck Group is the general contractor.
“It’s an aspirational building,” said Igor Marjanović, the William Ward Watkin Dean of Rice Architecture. “It’s not meant to be a traditional office space, or even classroom space. It’s really designed as an open, collaborative space for faculty and students to work on new forms of design research.”