Clifton Court Hall

Design Architect: LMN Architects
Architect of Record: KZF Design
Landscape Architect: MKSK Studios
General Contractor: Messer Construction
Structural Engineering: Buro Happold
MEP Engineer: PEDCO E&A Services
Lighting Design: Studio Lumen
Location: Cincinnati, OH

A classroom building organized around pedestrian pathways. The University of Cincinnati's largest classroom building, Clifton Court Hall gathered the scattered College of Arts and Sciences into a single home on the academic ridge of west campus. At its lower floors, the building steps down to meet the slope and absorb the pedestrian paths crossing the ridge, collecting foot traffic that would otherwise route around it. A modular terracotta cladding echoes the red brick of the adjacent historic campus. The circulation idea is made clear inside, where a sculptural red stair with decorative gates bridges the five-story atrium, elevating an existing campus path into the building itself and connecting west campus out to Clifton Avenue.