The new architecture studio building at the University of Miami doesn’t scream “design,” but it has one hard-to-miss bravura gesture: an overhanging raw-concrete roof shaped like a gentle wave that dips dramatically at one corner to shade an outdoor terrace.
The elongated, glass-and-concrete shed is primarily a functional building. Large, bright and expansively open, it’s a shared workspace for UM’s architecture students and faculty that the noted school had long sought. It finally materialized after Miami construction executive Tom P. Murphy Jr. agreed to underwrite and build it.
