The Stuckeman Family Building stands on East Park Avenue at Penn State's University Park campus. Built in 2003 and 2004 for $23.5 million, it is the home of the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. WTW Architects and La Quatra Bonci of Pittsburgh designed it with Overland Partners of San Antonio, with substantial input from Penn State faculty.
The building has five levels and 111,382 square feet (10,347 square meters). Thirty tons of copper cladding cover 49,000 square feet (4,553 square meters) of its exterior, and the copper is 95 percent recycled. The structural steel is 94 percent recycled.
It was the first Penn State building designed to meet LEED criteria and earned LEED Gold. Architectural Digest named it one of the world's top 15 copper-clad buildings in 2015. Inside are studios, the architecture library, the Rouse Gallery and a digital fabrication lab.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State News.
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