O’Brien Hall honored with City of Milwaukee 2024 Mayor’s Design Award

BNIM is proud to announce that O’Brien Hall at Marquette University is one of 20 projects that was recently honored at the City of Milwaukee’s 27th Annual Mayor’s Design Awards. This awards program recognizes exceptional design and development projects that positively contribute to Milwaukee’s urban environment.

O’Brien Hall is recognized in the Urbanism Redefined category, which honors projects that “have made extraordinary contributions to the city’s built environment by constructing or restoring places that repair, restore, or enhance the urban fabric, expand opportunities for education or employment, and facilitate social connections; while raising the bar for major development and contemporary architecture in the city.” 

O’Brien Hall is an inclusive, engaging, and student-centric destination for learning and innovation and is home to the College of Business Administration. Establishing a welcoming thoroughfare to campus and a positive community-facing presence at the corner of 16th and Wisconsin, where students and the larger business community gather for special events, classes, studying, and socializing, O’Brien Hall greets students and visitors with a central lobby and atrium space that provides generous daylight and a meaningful first impression and connection to the campus and city beyond.

The daylight-filled building includes a series of active learning classrooms, a flexible event space, the student and business career support center, study spaces, a state-of-the-art applied investment management lab, and a new café, which has become a highly frequented hub for students and faculty that offers a neighboring greenspace and outdoor gathering space.