Gold Medal winner, selected by Queen
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:41 am
Houston-based Kendall/Heaton Associates will serve as executive architect, and Tellepsen will provide preconstruction services.
The new facility will also incorporate an important facet of the current RMC, a memorial to 10 Navy ROTC students who died when their transport plane crashed in 1953 and for whom the building is named.
The building will be the second at Rice to be designed by a Royal Elizabeth II on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Adjaye was recently named the 2021 recipient of the award, which honors those who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture. The first Rice building by a medalist was the 1981 addition to Anderson Hall by James Stirling.
“This is an important and inspiring project for Adjaye Associates and we look rcs data forward to collaborating with Rice to imagine a new campus anchor point that engages its community in the most inclusive way possible,” Adjaye said. “Responding to the architectural history of the university, the City of Houston, and the region, the student center will come to embody its position at the heart of the campus, fostering catalytic connections between undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff activated in both the threshold and formalized spaces of the new building,” he said.
The new facility will also incorporate an important facet of the current RMC, a memorial to 10 Navy ROTC students who died when their transport plane crashed in 1953 and for whom the building is named.
The building will be the second at Rice to be designed by a Royal Elizabeth II on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Adjaye was recently named the 2021 recipient of the award, which honors those who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture. The first Rice building by a medalist was the 1981 addition to Anderson Hall by James Stirling.
“This is an important and inspiring project for Adjaye Associates and we look rcs data forward to collaborating with Rice to imagine a new campus anchor point that engages its community in the most inclusive way possible,” Adjaye said. “Responding to the architectural history of the university, the City of Houston, and the region, the student center will come to embody its position at the heart of the campus, fostering catalytic connections between undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff activated in both the threshold and formalized spaces of the new building,” he said.