William H. Neukom Building - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

About the Place:
The William H. Neukom Building fulfills the space needs of a growing faculty, reinforces the Law School community by fostering the collaboration essential to a rich educational experience and strengthens the visual identity of the Law School campus. The design of the building reflects an institutional shift towards an interdisciplinary and collaborative academic experience that integrates students and faculty. A monumental rotunda located at the intersection of two significant circulation paths serves as a prominent entry point to the new academic building and defines the new center of the law school. A shaded garden terrace, elevated above the ground floor is the heart of the building. Within the building, bridges between office suites and communal spaces foster a larger sense of community between faculty and students and offer expansive views of the landscape beyond. Interconnected, communal spaces transform the academic setting into a dynamic space that allows for informal student-faculty interactions. Oriented outward to the campus, double-height meeting spaces at the corners of the building achieve vertical interpenetration of interior spaces, further unifying the academic community. Stone and corrugated concrete – exterior building materials that are extended to the interior – figuratively reinforce the Law School’s strategic connection with the greater University community. Many measures have been employed to reduce the building’s carbon footprint, maximize energy effectiveness, reduce water consumption and create a healthy working environment. The design draws from traditional sustainable approaches, including thick masonry walls for passive solar heating and cooling, overhangs and deeply recessed windows to reduce solar heat gain while maximizing daylight and operable windows for natural ventilation as well as contemporary energy efficiency, building envelope design and water management techniques to create a building is emblematic of the campus commitment to sustainability.~source

About the Person:
William Horlick "Bill" Neukom (born 1942) is a former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants baseball team ownership group. He held this position from May 2008 to December 31, 2011 and he was the managing partner when the Giants won the World Series in 2010, the first World Series win since the team had moved to California in 1958. Prior to holding this position, he was President of the American Bar Association in 2007–08. He was the principal legal counsel for Microsoft for almost 25 years. He was also the Chairman of the Gates law firm in Seattle, now part of K&L Gates. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Philanthropic Work
Between 1996 and 2007, Neukom was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and he served as chair of the board from 2004 to 2007. Three of his children have attended Dartmouth. He is the founding donor of The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College, which aims to advance computing resources and applications in multiple aspects of the Dartmouth curriculum.

In 2006 Neukom committed to a gift of $20 million for the planned construction of a new academic building at Stanford University's law school. The structure, named the William H. Neukom Building and opened in 2011, is 65,000 square feet and is situated on the existing law school complex. ~source

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