Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) university officials and the Suffolk Construction project team recently celebrated the topping off of the school’s residence hall project on Huntington Avenue in Boston.

The $61 million, 21-story MassArt facility, which will add 493 beds and 145,000 square feet of dormitory space to the school campus, is on schedule to be completed in May 2012, according to a statement. The new residence hall will feature a sustainable design strategy to achieve LEED certification and will also include a new health center.

Once completed, the building will allow the college to guarantee housing to all first- and second-year students and will provide housing to 38 percent of the entire student body on campus, an increase from the current 22 percent, according to a statement. The new residence hall is one of four capital projects scheduled at MassArt over the next several years, which include a new media center, campus center and renovated galleries.