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The project to expand and renovate Schweitzer Hall has fulfilled the University of Missouri campus and System commitment to enhance research, instruction and external funding in the University of Missouri Medical and Life Sciences.

The renovation and addition allowed critically needed laboratory space near clinics to be vacated, and through the consolidation of the Biochemistry faculty, enhances the productivity of the notably successful MU Department of Biochemistry. The new structure needed to conform to the specific institutional requirements for compatibility with decades-old limestone campus, and provide maximal square footage for new state-of-the-art biochemistry laboratories and a facility for a $2.4 million 800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer serving the entire University of Missouri System.

The addition of three stories and mechanical penthouse was designed to provide flexible laboratory spaces on the two upper floors and part of the ground floor with the NMR facility on the ground floor. A second story enclosed bridge connects the new addition to an adjacent biochemistry occupied building while spanning a required student pedestrian pathway below. Renovated areas of existing Schweitzer Hall provide support functions and departmental offices.

The design of the addition reflects the image of the surrounding Collegiate Gothic White Campus buildings with areas of sloped slate roofing and mixtures of coursed ashlar limestone and cut limestone.    

Photography by ©Architectural Fotographics.