Rockwell Group is thrilled to announce the opening of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The new state-of-the-art higher education facility will host programming from all corners of Johns Hopkins, bringing experts, students, and researchers from all of the university’s Baltimore- and D.C.-based divisions together under one roof. The Center’s design, achieved in collaboration by Rockwell Group (Interior Architect), Ennead Architects (Exterior Architect) and SmithGroup (Architect of Record), breaks down the barriers between academic disciplines and creates a true commons for communication and collaboration.
Rockwell Group reimagined the building’s interior, creating a ten-story vertical quad to support myriad academic purposes and public gatherings with adaptable cutting-edge classrooms, lounge areas, and convening spaces that rise in various configurations from within and around an open, dynamic atrium. To support the university’s initiatives, the design emphasizes flexibility, allowing for responsiveness to the needs of multiple graduate schools, academic programs, and future uses.
"How people move, interact, and meet is at the core of every inch of the building."
The 435,000-square-foot building features 38 high-tech classrooms, a lounge-style library, a multimedia studio, enclosed study rooms, a state-of-the-art 375-seat theater, three floors of conference center space, a variety of workspaces, and landscaped roof terraces.