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Vanderbilt eyes summer start on major project

Vanderbilt University is eyeing a summer construction start on its Stevenson Center 6 building and has selected Nashville-based DLR Group to handle architecture, engineering, interior design and laboratory planning for the building.

According to a DLR release, a 2028 completion is targeted.

Relatedly, images have been released for what will be a 10-story building to stand approximately 150 feet and to feature a transparent glazed facade.

According to a release, the future Stevenson Center 6 will offer 200,000 square feet and accommodate VU’s College of Arts and Science, School of Engineering and School of Basic Sciences.

The Stevenson Center complex is located on Stevenson Center Lane (a private drive) and sandwiched by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center to the south and the original VU campus to the north.

The effort comes after a 2025 demolition of the modernist building that housed Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department offices, classrooms and laboratories, and earth and environmental sciences offices and labs.

“DLR Group’s research facility design for Vanderbilt University advances interdisciplinary collaboration by integrating flexible research environments and shared innovation hubs,” DLR Principal and Global Design Leader Dennis Bree said in the release. “This project strengthens the university’s capacity to attract top talent and positions Vanderbilt to lead breakthrough research that benefits Nashville and beyond.”

Constructed in the 1960s, the approximately eight-floor Stevenson Center 6 building that was razed was one of multiple structures comprising the Stevenson Center complex.

For the upcoming Stevenson Center 6 project, DLR Group leads a team that includes Hopkins Architects, Thornton Tomasetti, Centric Architecture, AEI Inc., Hawkins Partners, Barge Civil Associates, JE Dunn Construction and Casella Interiors

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