The $7.5-million University of Texas at Dallas Visitor Center and University Bookstore was designed to be an open and flexible space for events and a new front door to the campus. Project team members completed the ground-up, 33,000-sq-ft building in less than seven months and under budget, finishing in July 2011.
Among the project's particularly challenging elements were 6-ft structural-steel sunshades as well as a steel tensegrity structure in the rotunda.