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The Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence at Johnson & Wales University teaches groundbreaking cuisine in a daylight-filled, LEED® Gold–certified environment designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates
By Amy Milshtein Photography by Jeffrey Totaro
Blame it on the popularity of cooking shows and foodie blogs; enrollment is way up in the culinary arts division at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. With the student body growing by a few hundred students to more than 3,300 this year, the prestigious cooking school set its sights on a new building, but not necessarily LEED® certification. Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Boston showed the school’s administration that sustainable design could also be affordable, and designed the Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence at the university’s Harborside Campus to achieve Gold-level certification in the LEED for New Construction category. Built on a former industrial site along the Narragansett Bay, the building brings new life to the waterfront. Because the building is built within a flood zone along the bay, the new fivestory facility is supported on columns with a significant portion of the building cantilevered at least 12 feet above ground. An earthen berm—composed primarily of the groundup former asphalt parking lot on the site―is both under a portion of the building and gently slopes away from it to complete a quadrangle between existing buildings and the Center. A far cry from the retrofitted 1940s-era building that used to house the cooking school, the new 82,000-square-foot facility includes three distinctive dining rooms, 27 teaching classrooms, and specialized labs for charcuterie, chocolate, wine, micro-brewing, and drink mixology. Significant glazing allowing for abundant
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Contract - September 2011
Contract - September 2011
Contents
Editorial
Industry News
Product Briefs: Sustainable
Product Focus: Here Comes the Sun
Product Focus: Cream of the Crop
Memory Museum
Triple Threat
Mission Sustainable
Model of Sustainability
Desert Oasis
LEED by Example
Cooking Light
Trends: The Resilient Workplace
Ideas: Chair History
Designers Select: Boardroom Furnishings
Sources
Ad Index
Perspectives: Steven M. Davis, Faia, Aedas
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