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Washington University Charles F. Knight Center
The 135,094-square-foot, five-level Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center on the Washington University Hilltop Campus is an exceptional example of modified Gothic-style architecture with Missouri red granite with limestone quoins and features a magnificent limestone Richardson Arch.
For the Charles F. Knight Center, Leonard Masonry took painstaking care to match existing campus buildings, many dating back to the early 1900s. To achieve a precise color and quality match, the stone supplier sent bricklayers into the original quarry where the Missouri red granite for early buildings on campus is believed to have been sourced. The structure features limestone trim throughout, bay windows on all four sides, and distinctive window-high, charcoal-colored stone bands at ground level. The building’s large rooftop cooling tower, visible from the north side, is screened with Indiana limestone integrated with mechanical screened louvers with galvanized tubular steel, covered in limestone, forming a structural frame. All of the building’s windows are operable and framed in Indiana limestone.
Completion Date: 2001
Awards:
Fall 2001 - AIA/CPC "Distinguished Award for Masonry Craftsmanship"
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