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Renowned Architects Selected for Mission Bay
Campus
 Two world-renowned architects -- Ricardo Legorreta and Cesar Pelli -- have
been selected to design the buildings that will complete the first phase of the UCSF
Mission Bay campus, a major new biomedical research and education center to be developed
about a mile south of San Francisco's financial district.
Legorreta, founder of Legorreta Arquitectos in Mexico City, will design the campus
community center at UCSF Mission Bay. Known for his use of vibrant colors and simple
forms, Legorreta has received numerous awards for his designs and served for more than a
decade as a member of the jury for the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
Legorreta designed several Bay Area landmarks, including the Tech Museum of Innovation in
San Jose, the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose, and the Chiron Corp. laboratories
in Emeryville. He also is the architect of the planned Mexican Museum in San Francisco.
The community center building at UCSF Mission Bay will serve as a visual focal point for
the new campus and as the hub of UCSF services for students, faculty, staff, and the
general public. The 150,000-square-foot building, located at 16th and Owens streets, will
be at the southwestern corner of a large green space planned for the center of the 43-acre
campus site.
Peter Walker & Partners, a landscape design firm located in Berkeley, will serve as
special consultants for the first phase of the Mission Bay project, including the campus
green. Walker has collaborated with many major architects on projects around the world,
including the highly acclaimed Legorreta-designed IBM Solana at Westlake and Southlake
near Dallas.
Pelli, former dean of the Yale University School of Architecture and founder of Cesar
Pelli & Associates in New Haven, Conn., will design a 165,000-square-foot research
laboratory building at UCSF Mission Bay. The building, intended to serve as a major
neuroscience research center, will be the second laboratory facility to be constructed at
the new campus.
Pelli is known for numerous exceptional design projects throughout the world, including
major performing arts centers, art museums, and corporate headquarters. He previously has
designed research laboratory facilities for Yale University.
UCSF plans to break ground for the first laboratory building in October with completion
scheduled for 2002. The first building will house two umbrella research teams -- the
Structural and Chemical Biology group and the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
group. A new Center for Advanced Technology also will be located in the new facility.
Construction of these first three buildings and development of the campus green will be
the initial phase in the creation of UCSF's research and teaching campus. Over the next 20
years, UCSF plans to develop 2.65 million square feet of new research, teaching, and
support space at the Mission Bay site, about three-quarters the size of the main Parnassus
Heights campus.
Links:
Full UCSF press release
Daybreak Mission
Bay archives
Source: Bill Gordon, News Services
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