The humanities departments at Boston College gets a new home at Stokes Hall, which matches the prestigious school’s historic Gothic-style stone architecture on its Middle Campus
Earlier this year, Tsoi/Kobus & Associates completed work on Stokes Hall at Boston College. The 183,000-square-foot building houses the school’s humanities departments, and the school requested that it be designed and built to look as if it has always sat on the campus green. The school also requested that the building match — in style and materials — the college’s historic Gothic-style stone architecture on its Middle Campus. To accomplish this, the building was made in the English Gothic-style using traditional stone-by-stone construction methods. Additionally, Old York seam-faced granite from Old York Quarry in York, ME, and Indiana variegated limestone were used in the building’s design.
“A great university building needs to articulate the deepest held values of the institution and do so in a way that is highly convincing to all those who use it,” said David Owens, Design Principal of Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, MA. “A well-designed and built stone building, such as what we provided at Boston College, speaks to those values of quality and permanence in a way that few non-masonry buildings could express.”