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University of Iowa Blank Honors Center – Substance Architecture
This classroom and office building is home to the University Honors Program and the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education. The building also contains six general assignment classrooms to serve the campus.
The programs are segregated vertically, with public spaces: classrooms and lobby, on the first two transparent floors, and the administrative offices for the programs on the fourth through sixth floors. The third floor transitions between public and program-dedicated floors, and serves the students of the two programs. In section, the narrow office half is to the west, and the larger classroom/open-office half to the east. Offices capture views of the Iowa River through a double-glazed skin system which keeps west facing offices cool. A masonry service core divides the two halves.
Firm of record is Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck where Tim Hickman was Associate in Charge and Josh Baker was Project Architect. Photography by Assassi Productions (images 1, 2 & 3). Photography by Brad Hartman (images 4, 5, 6 & 7).
