Texas Christian University breaks crushed connected aesculapian schoolhouse for Dallas-Fort Worth region
When it opens successful summertime 2024, the Burnett School of Medicine volition bid 240 aesculapian students.
By Novid Parsi, Contributing Editor | January 17, 2023
TCU precocious broke crushed connected the recently named Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine astatine Texas Christian University. It is the university’s archetypal large off-campus development. Rendering courtesy CO Architects
Texas Christian University (TCU) has breached crushed connected the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine, which aims to assistance conscionable the expanding aesculapian needs of the increasing Dallas-Fort Worth region.
When it opens successful summertime 2024, the Burnett School of Medicine volition bid 240 aesculapian students to go what TCU calls Empathetic Scholars: compassionate physicians who are fantabulous communicators and person the quality to locomotion successful patients’ shoes, portion besides exceling successful innovative medicine and evolving aesculapian knowledge. Hundreds of module and unit members besides volition enactment astatine the school, which volition beryllium located successful Fort Worth’s aesculapian innovation territory successful the Near Southside neighborhood, adjacent to downtown.
Created by Los Angeles-based CO Architects, Hoefer Welker’s Dallas-Fort Worth office, and Texas engineering and scenery architecture steadfast Dunaway, the 95,000-sf Burnett School of Medicine is portion of a 5.3-acre extended field maestro program that volition see further facilities. The Burnett School of Medicine is TCU’s archetypal large off-campus development.
“This caller location volition alteration collaborative learning successful team-based classrooms, experiential learning successful simulated aesculapian environments, and a meaningful, intimate civilization successful a wide scope of assemblage areas and small-group survey spaces,” Jonathan Kanda, main astatine CO Architects, said successful a statement.
In 2019, the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine opened with a people of 60 students. A Fort Worth native, Anne Burnett Marion (1938-2020) was a Texas rancher, philanthropist, and creation collector who founded the Georgia O’Keefe Museum successful Santa Fe, N.M. She lived successful a Fort Worth location designed by designer I.M. Pei.
On the Building Team:
Owner: Texas Christian University
Design designer and aesculapian acquisition specialist: CO Architects
Architect of record: Hoefer Welker
Civil and structural technologist and scenery architect: Dunaway
Building systems engineer: SSR Inc.
Construction management: Linbeck
Courtesy TCU
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