Welcome to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. You are looking at a live view of the atrium─ the Monument Street entrance to the School; a meeting and eating place for students, staff and faculty; and home to the “Wall of Wonder,” a 13-by-20 foot flat screen that displays rotating public health presentations running silently in the background. This light-filled, architecturally striking public space is part of a 2004 addition to the School’s original Wolfe Street Building, which opened in 1926. That facility garnered praise at the time from the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as “a temple, a shrine with infinite possibilities…” Major building additions in the 1960s and 1990s culminated with the recent completion of two new wings that house 400,000 square feet of research and teaching facilities, reading courts with skylights, an exhibition hall, a coffee shop and a gym. In little more than a decade, the School’s main building doubled in size to almost 1 million square feet. At the 2004 rededication to mark the completion of the latest expansion, then dean Alfred Sommer remarked, “It happened because people started to understand the importance of public health and that Hopkins is the leading school of public health.”  |  | | | Unparalleled vistas: The School's newest wing offers more than 200,000 square feet of office and laboratory space and outstanding views of Baltimore's Harbor. |
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