Beus Center for Law and Society at ASU, Arizona University Architecture News, ASU
Beus Center for Law and Society at ASU, Arizona
Phoenix Building for ASU, Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law, AZ, USA – by Ennead Architects + Jones Studio
18 Aug 2016
Beus Center for Law and Society
Architect: Tomas Rossant of Ennead Architects, with Jones Studio
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Beus Center for Law and Society Opens at ASU

The Beus Center for Law and Society, the new home of the Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, opened on Monday at a ceremony featuring retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O?Connor, Senator John McCain, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and other dignitaries, all heralding BCLS as poised to transform the law school experience?both in program and design. A new six-story, 280,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of downtown Phoenix designed by Tomas Rossant of Ennead Architects, in collaboration with Jones Studio, BCLS was conceived and developed as a uniquely open urban environment where society and the study and practice of law converge.
Institutional Change Agent

?We are dedicated to making buildings that act as institutional change agents,? says Rossant, design partner who led the Ennead team with management partner Timothy Hartung. ?The new Beus Center for Law and Society repositions the law school as a conduit for connecting the school?s progressive legal scholarship with the public?where the law ...