The business school complex consists of three interconnected wings of the building located around the courtyard. Vignoli won the corresponding architectural competition in 2002, as his design for an educational building with a usable area of 38,500 m2 seemed to the customers the most successfully coordinated with the environment - low-rise campus buildings. To reduce the height of his building, Vignoli placed the maximum number of rooms underground, including even flow auditoriums.
The peculiarity of the urban planning situation also lies in the fact that very close to the new building are the masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright - the house of Robie, as well as the neo-Gothic Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the symbol of the university campus.
Vignoli's construction not only does not suppress the nearby monuments, but also “echoes” them with its formal decision: the horizontal roofs of the building taken outside the main volume remind of Wright's “prairie houses”, and the glass ceiling of the six-story atrium in the center of the complex is supported by four “pseudo-Gothic” pillars … Inside, there are pipes that carry rainwater from the roof to a reservoir under the underground garage for later use.
However, with all the attention shown by Rafael Vignoli to the architectural heritage, his $ 125 million business school building was built on the site of Ero Saarinen's Wadworth Court student dormitory, which confirms Vignoli's thesis that he is "ready to demolish anything" for implementation their projects.
