Designed by SmithGroup architect Michael Mount, the 75-foot-long, 10-foot-wide firing range at the state crime lab in St. Paul, Minnesota, allows scientists to perform a range of ballistics tests.
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Five firms are on the leading edge of creating purpose-driven, evidence-based design for a bevy of different uses. Here are profiles of each, with their respective expertise.
Performance/Worship, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander
Forensics, SmithGroup
Rehabilitation, HMC Architects
Justice, RicciGreene Architects
Aging, Perkins Eastman