Goes Downtown

摘要

The assignment: Design and build a 223,000-square-foot building with a 35,000-square-foot footprint on a parcel of land in downtown Phoenix. Give it a strikingly distinctive high-tech appearance and make sure it is energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. Here's your budget. Oh, by the way, you have just 20 months to have it ready for move-in. And, since it's downtown, your access and work hours will be restricted. That's what Sundt Construction was looking at on a Friday afternoon in October 2006. The city of Phoenix had just notified Sundt officials that they had won the contract to build the structure that was to become the new home of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and PBS Channel 8.