Best New Building
UA Architecture Building
Staff Pick
UA Architecture Building
Speedway Boulevard between Park and Mountain avenues
UA Architecture Building
Speedway Boulevard between Park and Mountain avenues
Besides the obvious beauty of the three-story glass wall that reflects the ever-changing sky, we love the giant dollhouse effect at night when the windows disappear and give us a cutaway view of architecture students working away inside. (It's 2 a.m., you guys! Go home and get some sleep!) But the best part? This is Tucson's largest green building: The south side is a wall of trellis, which will grow into a green wall of yellow orchid vines (Mascagnia macroptera) to shade and cool the interior, and there's a rooftop water-harvesting system that fills an 11,000-gallon cistern that irrigates the lush sunken garden on the south side.
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