{"id":1663,"date":"2023-01-13T21:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1663"},"modified":"2023-01-17T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:55:31","slug":"pub-love","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/pub-love\/","title":{"rendered":"PUB Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Yet another award for Eastern\u2019s <span class=\"s1\">most celebrated building.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">W<\/span>hen the renovated\u00a0Pence Union Building celebrated its grand reopening in 2019, pretty much everyone in attendance agreed Eastern\u2019s stunning new space was a winner. It didn\u2019t take long for the architectural world to agree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Over the past three years, the PUB has claimed no less than five state and national awards for design and usage. The latest came earlier this year, when the Society for College and University Planning, or SCUP, awarded the building its top award in the category of Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions, Renovation or Adaptive Reuse. Eastern and other 2022 award winners are featured on the SCUP website and this past summer\u2019s issue of <i>Learning By Design<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid wp-image-234 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/FOB_PUB.jpg\" alt=\"Facade of the Pence Union Building (PUB)\" width=\"600\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/FOB_PUB.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/FOB_PUB-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/FOB_PUB-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/FOB_PUB-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThe redesign creates an easy-to-navigate, open-concept layout that is infused with natural light,\u201d the\u00a0<i>Learning By Design<\/i>\u00a0citation says. \u201cThe renovated building maintains the traditional campus aesthetic of red brick but introduces modern elements of metal, glass and wood that connect the structure from the inside and out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Perkins+Will, a Chicago-based firm with offices in Seattle, created the design that rethought and repurposed the original 1960s \u201cbrutalist\u201d building into a modern-day hub for university activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Built by Spokane construction firm Leone &amp; Keeble, the 126,000-square-foot renovated building (featured on the cover of <i>Eastern<\/i> magazine\u2019s Spring\/Summer 2019 issue) includes a welcoming, light-infused atrium and trendy spaces for dining, shopping and learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another award for Eastern\u2019s most celebrated building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":44,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1663","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_categories-research","stories_categories-students","stories_tags-fall-winter-2022-23"],"acf":{"subheading":"","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1663\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}