A High-Tech Low-Rise

By Jordan Schraeder in 40 Acres, Sept | Oct 2012 on September 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm | 1 Comment

In August, the College of Communication’s state-of-the-art Belo Center for New Media opened its doors after two and a half years of construction. The five-story, $54 million, 120,000-square-foot building at the corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton is equipped to help UT journalism, advertising, and public relations students become media pros in the digital age. Here are a few of its key features.

• Student activity center, home to Communication Council and other student organizations.

• 300-seat auditorium for lectures and events.

• Hospitality space for guest speakers.

• Multimedia newsroom that serves as both an interactive classroom and home base for the School of Journalism’s news site, Reporting Texas.

• Agency-grade creative suite to encourage collaboration between advertising students, featuring a computer projection system, flexible furniture, and a special wall to physically hang work for critique.

• 75-seat presentation space with cinemagrade audio and visuals.

• Two-story, 20,000-square-foot space for KUT, which includes a 72-seat performance studio, high-tech recording studios, and the station’s very first green room.

• Outdoor stage and street-level plaza.

Photo by Matt Valentine.

Tags: Belo Center for New Media, College of Communication, Communication Council, KUT