The 130,000-square-foot building is a four-story linear structure. It houses administrative offices on the first three floors and the Landscape Architecture School on the fourth floor. Crowning the building is a barrel-vaulted studio space with double-height windows facing the quadrangle and a framed roof terrace facing Bailey Plaza.

A connecting bridge provides access to the Landscape department from the Academic building and frames a three-story gate to the quadrangle that recalls similar college gates on the campus. A primary pedestrian pathway from the quadrangle to the campus, the gate forms one of the main entrances to the Academic building; the other is at the corner of Tower Road and Garden Avenue.

The archway divides the building into two wings: Roberts Hall, an administration building that encloses the quad, and Kennedy Hall, a classroom and faculty office building whose south end faces a major intersection.

A two-story galleria with a balcony mezzanine is the primary interior circulation space of Kennedy Hall, connecting the two entrances and providing access to classrooms, a 600-seat lecture auditorium, and a 400-seat dining facility. The third and fourth floors house faculty offices and teaching-support space.

On the exterior, modular brick in three shades of earth tones recalls the texture of adjacent campus buildings. The windows are teak, with cast-stone sills and copings, and the barrel-vaulted roof in standing-seam lead-coated copper.

The four-story building addresses the pertinent issues of a major college structure—context, material, scale, and image—in a manner that supports both a new program and the traditions of the school.

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