Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center - Johns Hopkins University

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The 63,000-square-foot Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center opened in January 2002. The three-story, $14.3 million facility is used by Homewood campus students, faculty, and staff. Adjacent to the Newton H. White Athletic Center, the state-of-the-art recreation center features 18,000-square-foot Robert H. Scott Gymnasium with a three-lane jogging track above its perimeter. Outfitted with two scoreboards, the gym can be transformed into three basketball courts, five volleyball courts or three badminton courts. The center also has four racquetball/squash courts, a 3,000-square-foot weight room, and a 30-foot climbing wall. A 2,500-square-foot fitness facility, a gift from the PepsiCo Foundation, contains treadmills, cross-trainers, stationary bikes, stair machines and rowing machines. The building also has a third-floor multipurpose room, named in honor of Robert M. and Anne B. Evans of Baltimore. The center was designed by Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass. Lead architect Steve Schetler said that what makes the building special is its intermingling of spaces. 'For instance, from the jogging track you can look into either the climbing wall area or the fitness room,' he said. 'You can enjoy adjacent spaces from almost everywhere you are.'