Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, United States
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- Sa-Su 08:00-20:00; Mo-Fr 07:00-22:00
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Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering stands as a landmark brutalist structure on the University of Pittsburgh campus, completed in 1971 by the architectural firm Deeter, Ritchey, and Sippel at a cost of $15 million. The fifteen-story building, with two levels below ground, occupies a 1.8-acre site formerly home to the National Guard's Logan Armory and houses the Swanson School of Engineering across 419,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratories, offices, and specialized facilities. The building earned both the Pennsylvania Society American Institute of Architects Honor Award and Distinguished Building Award. It contains the George M. Bevier Engineering Library, which serves the engineering school alongside the departments of physics and astronomy and geology and planetary science, and features a mural by Edward Catich behind the circulation desk. A major 2008 renovation project added the LEED-designed Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, a 42,000-square-foot structure that transformed the original 528-seat Engineering Auditorium into five classrooms and won an International Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Design Award in 2012.
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