Landworks Studio » University of Pittsburgh

Campus, Streetscapes, Urban Landscapes

The BioMedical Science Tower III, representing a significant advancement of the University of Pittsburgh’s scientific agenda, extends and emboldens the university’s urban campus identity. This idea of progress and cutting-edge technology carries through to the landscape, where green armatures peel away from the building face, serving as planters, walls, benches and doubling as security barriers. At the main entrance, an armature folds down to become the tray for the Genome Stick sculpture, enlivened with light and water. This spectrum of colors stands at one edge of the site, whose groundplane and edges materially and experientially form a cohesive contemporary streetscape.