WSA Studio is proud to announce that the Ohio State University Knowlton Hall project has been distinguished by a national honor award for architectural design.  WSA Studio was the architect of record for the project which was completed in 2004.  The project was designed in collaboration with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects of Atlanta, and has also been the recipient of awards from AIA Ohio, AIA Georgia, and AIA Columbus.

Congratulations to Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Shelley Metz Baumann Hawk, HAWA, Michael Van Valkenburg Associates, Bird + Bull, and the Ohio State University on this prestigious recognition.

Notes of Interest

The site of the new school of architecture is at the western edge of the old campus, close to the river and the football stadium, at the happily congested corner of West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place. Bounded by existing buildings and crossed by major campus pedestrian thoroughfares, the site is a dynamic zone, capable of sustaining a connective architecture and landscape and an inclusive urban form.

Asserting the belief that a school of architecture has a commitment to teach by example to both students within and the community at large, the architectural form and urban positioning of the new school is strategically active and interactive. The building form is generated by enclosing, defining and confronting the spaces and existing buildings of the larger site. Studios overlook the newly captured spaces. Students are in the midst of the urban activity which they will study and will eventually help form and influence.