This building was designed by the acclaimed architect
Rafael Vinoly. According to the Penn State IST website, the design of the building "began as an inkpen sketch on a paper dinner napkin." He characterizes the building as "a labor of love . . . my own personal obsession for years", stating that, in the beginning, it seemed "crazy and extreme" to construct an S-shaped building over North Atherton Street. According to the Penn State IST Website, "His firm, Rafael Vinoly Architects,
New York, partnered with Perfido Weiskopf Architects,
Pittsburgh, for the design inspired by the
Ponte Vecchio in
Florence." Despite its name, this building currently is the home of both the Pennsylvania State University
Computer Science and Engineering Department, in addition to the College of IST. In order to "better represent the building’s many uses", the building was renamed the Westgate Building in 2017. ==References==