Anabeth and John Weil Hall is the graduate studio building of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. KieranTimberlake designed it, with Tao + Lee as local architect. It opened in fall 2019 as part of the East End Transformation. University pages give its size as 80,670 and as over 82,000 square feet.
About 140 studio desks for the master's programs in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture sit on the second and third floors. They flank Kuehner Court, a two-story skylit court of 2,500 square feet with a living green wall. Thirty MFA studios of 180 square feet each fill the south side.
The 3,000-square-foot Caleres Fabrication Studio, with a CNC mill, laser cutters and 3D printers, is called the heart of the hall. The school says the hall united its design and art programs for the first time in recent history. It has LEED Platinum certification.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from Sam Fox School: Inside Weil Hall, WashU Campus Next: Weil Hall, The Architect's Newspaper: KieranTimberlake's vision for Washington University.
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