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Austin Jackson Geological Sciences Building Featured in 2003 American
School & University Educational Interiors Showcase AUSTIN - The
University of Texas John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Geological
Sciences Building was selected as an Outstanding Building in the
2003 American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase,
honoring educational interior design excellence. The project was
profiled in the 13th Annual Showcase edition of American School
& University (AS&U) magazine, a monthly educational facilities,
purchasing and business administration magazine that reaches more
than 63,000 facility planners, school and university administrators
and architects.
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Austin-based
O'Connell Robertson & Associates provided architecture; interior
design; MEP engineering design; furniture selection and construction
administration services for the 5-story, 62,000 SF, state-of-the-art
classroom addition to the existing Geology Building located on the
East Mall of the University of Texas at Austin. The building contains
multiple tiered auditoriums; standard and sloped classrooms; labs;
administrative areas for the environmental science department; faculty
and graduate research offices and workrooms; and the Geological
Sciences Foundation. 
The
addition is designed to provide an inspiring teaching and research
environment for undergraduate and graduate students. With the use
of an earth tone palate and natural materials throughout the interiors
- including terrazzo flooring, organic carpet patterns, granite
countertops, and sedimentary fossilized limestone accents - the
building becomes the backdrop upon which geological subjects are
communicated, displayed, taught and learned. Wall spaces and display
cases integrated throughout the building provide many settings for
presentation of minerals, rocks, crystals and ideas. 
