HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) -- Northern Kentucky University is set to break ground this month on a building that officials hope will become a signature structure for the school.

The university will break ground May 28 at its Highland Heights campus for the $52.8 million Center for Informatics, which will open in May 2011.

The main feature will be a glass-encased "digitorium," which essentially is a black-box theater with digital, high-definition and three-dimensional screens and cameras.

College of Informatics dean Doug Perry says it "will be a natural attraction to NKU."

It will add more than 24 classrooms to about 124 on the campus.