Date Posted: 03.10.2025
On March 5th, Mithun joined with the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) leaders, students and alumni for a groundbreaking of Curran Street Residence Hall, the campus’s first new student housing project in decades. The $95 million project will transform an existing parking lot and landscape yard into a vibrant campus gateway catering to first-year student growth.
“It’s not just a place that you sleep at night, but truly coming home, meeting people, gaining those memories,” shared alumnus Amanda Johnston. “These are the people that you’re going to be friends with the rest of your life.”
The Georgia Tech Curran Street Residence Hall will house 862 undergraduate students in in a midrise building incorporating common amenity and study spaces, and innovative education program elements. Ground floor amenity spaces include a multipurpose space for lectures and meetings, 24-hour automated market, space for e-sports (including broadcasting), and dedicated fitness space. In addition, a large group kitchen serves as a welcoming gesture near the front entry, enhancing the visibility of food options and overall student cohesion. The optimized mix of program areas and spatial efficiency supports the university’s academic mission, student experience and housing affordability.
Smart massing and a high-performance envelope are leveraged to achieve Passive House design certification. Building orientation responds to optimal climatic factors while establishing diverse outdoor spaces for student use and maintaining the campus fabric’s integrity and rhythm of green spaces. Stormwater and ecological design concepts connect the project to Georgia Tech’s beloved EcoCommons, an inspiring campus center landscape space devoted to ecological function and health.
Construction is already well underway, aiming to house incoming students by fall 2026. Vice President for Student Engagement and Well-Being Dr. Luoluo Hong noted that although the recent ceremony was labeled a “groundbreaking” it could be considered a “sky breaking”, as one portion of the project framing already stood to level three.
Members of the Mithun project team reviews progress during recent site visit.
Mithun is the lead designer in association with Lord Aeck Sargent, collaborating design architect. Additional team members include New South Construction, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architecture and PAE Engineering.
