Business Building
Lyon College
Batesville, Arkansas
This three-story 38,000 SF facility houses five classrooms, a 175-seat lecture
hall with networked video projectors, 2 instructor controlled/monitored
computer
labs/classrooms, 2 conference rooms, 1 seminar room, 4 team rooms, a reading
room, and 24 faculty and administrative offices. Significant features include
a clock tower and cupola with 24-bell carillon, topped with a weather vane of
a life-sized Scottish piper, the school's mascot. The building also contains
a Harvard-style auditorium and classrooms with semi-circular, tiered seating,
a second story terrace with bluff side view, and a 3-story central atrium crowned
with a stained glass skylight of the college seal.