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- Trustee design approval: Received June 2008
- Groundbreaking: Summer 2008
- Occupancy: Academic Year 2010-2011
Fast Facts: The Knight Management Center
The Knight Management Center will encompass approximately 360,000 square feet. This will replace the current 260,000 square feet of outdated Business School facilities, resulting in a net additional 100,000 square feet.
Project Costs: $350 million*
The plans include:
- A 600-seat auditorium
- Greater variety in size and type of classrooms
- Breakout study rooms
- Dining facilities
- Student Center with Library and Lounge
- A career management center
- Executive education space
- Faculty and staff offices
Groundbreaking has begun (summer 2008) and occupancy is anticipated in 2010-11.
* Project costs include the 360,000 useable square feet as well as the 300,000+ square feet for the underground garage plus any exterior arcades, porches, bridges, pathways and landscape.
Campus Design
Architect Stan Boles discusses the history of the Stanford University campus.
Frederick Law Olmsted’s master plan for Stanford, developed in the late 1800s, has the Main Quad as the dominant feature of Stanford’s campus. For the 21st century and beyond, the Stanford University Architect, David Lenox, has embarked on a mission to build on and restore the original plan by placing the School of Medicine at one end of Serra Street and the Knight Management Center for the School of Business at the other.
With such a primary location for the Knight Management Center (at the intersection of Serra Street and Campus Drive), the Graduate School of Business will have a prominent identity on Stanford’s campus.
The vision for the GSB campus reflects a commitment to creating space that enables collaboration between faculty and students, between the GSB and the rest of Stanford, and with the global business community. The Knight Management Center will support today’s GSB community and provide space flexible enough to enable growth and change over the next century and beyond. And, it will be done on a campus that is responsible in its use of energy, water, and materials while providing a wonderful environment for people.
The Knight Management Center is comprised of a series of small buildings situated around vital outdoor spaces. The outdoor spaces—Town Square, Faculty Courtyard, Community Court, Amphitheatre, and Academic Walk—provide numerous opportunities for teams to find special spaces to collaborate and work.
Associate Dean Dan Rudolph gives a tour of the new campus.