The architects' design-concept for this project was for two buildings--one housing the computer sciences faculty and one housing computer services--running parallel, one to the other, along the hillside site--with the requirement for deliver-dock accessibility from the university green. The two were tied together with a common, central, large, high, atrium-lobby, running between them, at their juncture--with wide, carpeted steps and a wide, carpeted ramp. The architect chosen for this project was Sam Marshall Associates.

The one percent of the construction budget for artwork for this project was one of the most successful on the campus. There were two commissions: one was a series of large, hanging tapestries by Rebecca Hurely (an artist from the Orlando/Winter Park area) hanging from the high ceiling of the atrium-lobby. The other was a massive, decorative, metal sculpture--that rotated (at one's touch)--in the median of the outside split-level sidewalk approach from the north.

The tapestries are gone, but you can still rotate the metal sculpture at the entrance to Bldg. 79.

The Next Larger Picture by John E. Jarvis, Jr. Published by the University of West Florida Foundation, Inc., 2008.