LCC's $31M Arts & Sciences Building renovation unveiled as hub for creativity and innovation

Lansing Community College's newly renovated Arts and Sciences Building is more than just a facility to house students and instructors; it's a building designed to embrace learning, support inquiry and foster creativity. The $31 million renovation of the 180,000 square foot project was completed just in time for fall classes to begin in Aug., and LCC celebrated the building's grand opening in October. 

 

"Our goal was to build spaces that were inviting to students and enable learning and teaching in a place where everyone would want to be," says LCC President Brent Knight. "We set out to build spaces as good as any college or university in the nation for freshman and sophomore instruction."

 

The Arts and Sciences Building includes such features as a tutoring and study space called the Learning Commons, a visual homage to history's great writers called the Writers Walk, the Science Innovation Center and more than 250 works of art. Key to the design, says Knight, was creating spaces that could change with the evolving demands of higher education. 

 

"We have many large, open spaces in the building," he says, "so that will serve the college in the future, no matter how learning changes."

 

Now underway is another LCC project nearby on Grand Ave. Knight says the renovation of the student commons building will create an "instant Lansing landmark."