On April 10, 2013, the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University held its Topping Out Ceremony. The event celebrated the concrete frame reaching the roof level. The full scale of the building can now be seen and the presence of the project on Washington Circle can really be felt while exploring the atrium space. The event was attended by the Dean of the Milken Institute SPH, several faculty and administrators from the school, the contractor (Whiting-Turner) and the design team (PAYETTE, Ayers Saint Gross, AEI, and TCE). The Dean and her colleagues from the school expressed great enthusiasm for the project and are very much looking forward to moving in. Our team greatly enjoyed the day and the event. Though it isn’t obvious in the pictures, it was 90 degrees in DC that day!
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.