Carnegie Mellon University

View information about our main campus buildings and spaces, or check out a list of awards that our spaces and architecture have won. Check back often as these pages will continually be updated. 

Current Project Updates

Details about our current renovation and construction projects are listed below. To start a new project with our team, you can initiate a capital project or request campus space.

Public Art at CMU

CMU recognizes the value of including public art in its campus spaces, committing in the Simonds Principles, adopted in 2013, to incorporate public art into all new building projects and renovations. “Public art enriches campus life by infusing it with the perspectives of artists,” said Elizabeth Chodos, CMU’s Johnson Family Public Art Curator. Learn more about CMU’s public art selection process.

Recent artworks include:

  • Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds by Stephanie Dinkins, inside TCS Hall
  • Four Birds by Bella Alt, to be installed on the fifth floor of Wean Hall (across from La Prima)
  • In the Footsteps of a Stranger by Angelica Bonilla “A.B.” Fominaya, on the third floor of Posner Hall
  • Inverted Dancer by Thaddeus Mosely, in the courtyard at Fifth and Clyde Residence Hall
  • Making Way by Jessica Stockholder, at Scaife Hall
  • Untitled Core Sample (THE FENCE) by Amanda Ross-Ho, at the Forbes Beeler Apartments
  • Planned artwork by Guadalupe Maravilla to be installed at the Highmark Center for Health, Wellness and Athletics