New Building


The Bryant Bannister Tree Ring Building viewed from the southwest: a conceptual rendering (Richard & Bauer Architecture).

The Tree-Ring Lab has been in temporary accommodation under the west side of the Arizona Stadium for over 70 years, but will finally be moving into a new custom-designed building. The architects have moved beyond their initial conceptual designs to the stage of detailed consultations with the Tree-Ring Lab faculty and staff; construction is due to begin in April of 2011 and end around October of 2012. The first phase of the building will house laboratory and office space in a block raised in columns to the roof level of the present Math East building (where the Tree-Ring Lab already occupies some space in the basement). Public exhibition space and a multipurpose room that will serve as both auditorium and teaching lab will be beneath this structure at ground level. A subsequent phase will move storage of the extensive collection of wood samples into the former Math East building, once its present occupants can be accommodated elsewhere.

More details of the project are available on the University of Arizona Planning, Design & Construction site.


The Bryant Bannister Tree Ring Building viewed from the northeast: a conceptual rendering (Richard & Bauer Architecture).