This project included the renovation of approximately 55,000 GSF of an existing academic building and the addition of appoximately 26,600 GSF of new construction, to meet the program requirements for the School of Arts and Letters. A further mission of the project was to join the buildings in such a way as to create a common identity, and to give the monolithic impression of a single and united structure. MMM performed planning study validation and design in accordance with BCOM mandates.

The project included extensive and sophisticated academic programming as the School of Media Arts and Design, the speech communications department, the writing program, the Institute of Technical and Scientific Communications, media resources and telecommunications spaces, and various administrative spaces needed to fit within the confines of the space available. A new 150-seat lecture hall and a television facility required two-story spaces.