EYP designed a new, 184,000-s.f. residence hall for Fordham University that provides housing for 550 students. With its stone cladding, crenellated roof battlements, axial tower, central archway, and rows of turrets and buttresses, the new building is a modern adaptation of the Collegiate Gothic style that crowns Fordham’s historic Rose Hill campus. Three-quarters of the residence hall consists of double rooms with private baths. The remaining rooms are singles or triples. Many of the rooms have bay windows and window seats. Since so many of the rooms in the residence hall are doubles and singles, a key consideration in the design of the building was to build many various types of lounge spaces to maximum student socialization. The types of lounges include community lounges, study lounges, seminar rooms, a live-learn center, and a large commons room capable of accommodating hundreds of users at one time.