As Pace University continues to evolve, the university's main goals were to improve the student experience and create a campus environment where learning takes place everywhere. The Student Landscape transforms these goals into reality, providing students with the needed spaces on campus to learn, collaborate, and convene. Following our 2016 campus master plan for the university, we began renovations to transform the university's two flagship buildings buildings—One Pace Plaza, the university's signature mid-century building, and the nearby 41 Park Row, a New York City landmark and former home of The New York Times. Renovating, repositioning, and reactivating the two Pace buildings created connections that have improved the circulation, function, interaction, and identity for the university and university community.
Spanning across the two buildings, the new student landscape reinforces relationships within the university with a student "living room," which encourages collaboration and spontaneous conversation, and learning spaces of various scales and characters, which accommodate both collective and quiet learners. These spaces help create a cohesive, connected campus, and provide distinct identities for the Lubin School of Business and Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. They also transform the relationship between the university and surrounding community, with distinct new entrances and windows that provide dramatic vistas of the dynamic student life occurring inside, and the verdant bustle of the city outside.
