These two towers frame the courtyard and create an obvious visual relationship between Turner and the Arcade. Other exterior materials were borrowed from the palette used on the Bradley Arcade. Copper, used as guttering on the original, reappears as scale-like sheathing. Whether entering from Wright or John Street one can easily find the financial aid counter. Without clarity you can't have a good building.
Circulation can be simple and understandable without being boring.
The lobby and some offices in the addition look onto a courtyard. The need to get light into the offices, the lack of intimate green spaces on campus, and the functional relationship between two student service buildings all combined to form the addition. Our designs are extremely rational. Some people don't think they're rational because they are active and colorful, but they are. If the solutions converge in one design-that's the test of its rationality.