Designed by renowned architects Legorreta and Legorreta, the building will have at its core an open three-story atrium that will serve as a town square. Filled with natural light, the atrium will be home to a food court, assembly area and expansive walkway. Situated on the main east-west passage through Education City, the walkway will be alive with trees and will serve as a meeting place for everyone in Education City.

The event was a ceremonial groundbreaking. Actual excavation and construction is expected to begin in July. Building completion is currently slated for January 2008.

About the Architects
Known for the ability to conceive of spaces that suit needs, appetites and emotions, Legorreta and Legorreta combines pure and timeless forms that instill clarity into complicated projects. Using light, water and dramatic colors, spaces are designed to intensify the personal experience of the people in the buildings. Even in large complexes, like the Chiron Laboratories, or the Egade Graduate School, privacy and simplicity is preserved. The application of color is a most important priority, especially in projects set in their native Mexico. All of these ingredients integrate architecture, landscaping and interior decoration into a single discipline that respects the place and the traditions.

Legorreta and Legorreta also designed the Texas A&M University at Qatar building, which is currently under construction next to the Carnegie Mellon site. For more information, visit http://www.legorretalegorreta.com.

Two pics of the renders (only found for now)
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They will have the nicest facilities I guess! Lucky them!
But isn't that university operational already? Where do students study as of now?

Texas and Georgetown university are accomodated in the LAS Buildiing for the mean time. As for Carnegie mellon and Weill COrnell are accomodated in the Weil Cornell university which has been ready for a while.
Texas university will be ready by January, I guess, and as for CMU, construction will start soon and will be located in-between Texas and Weill Cornell.

They will have the nicest facilities I guess! Lucky them!
But isn't that university operational already? Where do students study as of now?

Yes, those are nice facilities. But currently the university operates at Cornell College I think or Texas A and M. But, they have less than a 100 students I think or somehting of that range.

nice

January 2007
Education City Development – Carnegie Mellon University

Owner: Qatar Foundation for Education; Science and Community Development
Budget: $250 million
Scope of work: The project calls for the design and construction of a business and IT college at the Education City development. The college building will consist of three storeys with a built-up area of 41,300 sq m.
Status: Construction work has started and is scheduled for completion by March 2008.

http://www.gulfconstructionworldwide.com/bkArticlesF.asp?Article=8318&Section=1587&IssueID=268

brilliant

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Looks very geometrical with straight lines and right angles. Looking good, thanks Suzan!

wow just amaizing will education city be somthing like sports city ??? all connected with walk ways and everything else

^^But i wish Sports city is large, its quite small.

^^But i wish Sports city is large, its quite small.

They are thinking of making it much larger if they want a successful 2016 bid.

and wish Khalifa Staduim would be upgraded to a capacity on 100,000:D if they want to win.

i have a feeling i mentioned it somewhere

okay.....find it!

Thanks, it will look great! By the way, on one of the pics, it has the same weird lamp as in the Al Maha Sofitel lobby! lol!

May 15, 2007 (from bad angle though :/)

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9663/dsc01735sj7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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they are going fast with this.........i hope they get done with it on time............