Architecture building inspired by Mother Road

The Albuquerque Tribune today has a story about architect Antoine Predock and his latest project, the new University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning building.

The project broke ground last month on the university campus, just east of the UNM Bookstore. Terraced and carved and slathered in glass, the building will hang out over and dart away from Central Avenue and flood the street with light.

“Lights are on 24-7 in an architecture school because students are working all the time and moving around, so the building will be an animating force on Central, very much in the spirit of Route 66,” Predock said recently, during an interview in his Downtown offices. “It commands a great site because of the view from the Frontier (Restaurant).”

More drawings of the building can be seen here.

Predock has cited Route 66 as an inspiration in another interview, partly because he became enamored of the Southwest during a vacation with his family to New Mexico and Arizona when he was a teen. He also was born in Lebanon, Mo., and grew up in St. Louis, both of them Route 66 towns.

You can read an earlier story about Predock here.

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