In keeping with the college's goals of de-emphasizing academic boundaries and the decentralization of administration, the architects created flexible loft'' spaces along a linear indoor street'' an an efficient and rational form to de-emphasize the building and emphasize people. (Author)

Two campus structures -- a student-faculty center at the University of Massachusetts and a technological complex at New York University -- and a downtown high-rise office building in Cleveland all have precast panel walls, which play a major role in the mechanical and electrical distribution systems. (Author)