UK, Studio Gang unveil designs for Reynolds Building

The University of Kentucky offered a glimpse at the coming transformation of a defunct, 145,000-square-foot former tobacco warehouse into the modernized home for the university’s College of Design.

The large volume of space within the the vast century-old Reynold’s Building on Scott Street gave room for ample opportunity to create a natural-light-filled new educational building that is designed to promote creative crossover between multiple disciplines within the university’s design college.

The design was formulated by prominent international architecture and design practice, Studio Gang, in conjunction with the Louisville-based Architect…