Completed Projects
One of the unforeseen rewards following the adoption of the Duke University Master Plan 2000 by the Board of Trustees is the heighten interest in the quality and aesthetic appeal for Duke architecture. In the last ten years notable architects have worked on the Duke University campus and at the Duke Health system to design a full range of academic, research, residential, and health care buildings. Over one billion dollars of new facilities have been designed by Cesar Pelli, Bob Frasca, Adam Gross, Alex Cooper, Steve Kieran , and John Ruble, to name a few. Notable firms have also provided excellent projects that met or exceeded the design expectations suggested by the 2000 Master Plan. Shepley, Bullfinch, Richard & Abbott has provided design services for the Perkins Library while Hillier (now RMJM) have completed several major research buildings for the medical school. Payette, from Boston, did two large projects at Duke in the mid 1990s; the firm has returned to participate in a platinum LEED™ annex to one of those research buildings. Perkins & Will has devoted ten years to the Fuqua School of Business while the School of Law has had several firms develop this schools long term facilities improvements.
Throughout this design and building process the landscape for the campus has not been ignored. The Duke campus is almost 2000 contiguous acres; a master plan principle, one of eight, reinforces the commitment to keep Duke as “a university in the forest”. Yet each time a building is planned, and built, the land, the trees and the vegetation at that site threatened. With Duke’s a landscape staff and grounds personnel, and targeted landscape design guidelines for the original and proposed portions of Duke’s campus, the quality is maintained and the vegetation enhanced. Trees are added, often on the basis of two for every one tree removed. For all major projects landscape architects work with the design architect, and Duke, to extend the design goals for this university community. In the tradition of the Olmsted Brothers, who were the first landscape designers to work at Duke in the mid 1020s, Laurie Olin has provided continuity to our planning for the past 15 years.
Below is a list of selected projects completed since 2000. Visit Duke's interactive campus map at http://map.duke.edu for project locations.
Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion
Westbrook Building and Goodson Chapel