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Berkeley Space Center trellis aerial view of the central courtyard, rendering by Field Operations and HOK

UC Berkeley Announces $2 Billion Space Center At NASA Ames Research Center

5:30 am on October 17, 2023 By Andrew Nelson

New plans have been revealed for a $2 billion research center run by UC Berkeley at the NASA Ames Center in Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The Berkeley Space Center, as it will be called, will reshape 36 acres on the sprawling Ames Research Center, providing a hub for future companies to collaborate with the school and NASA scientists & engineers to improve technology for aviation, space exploration, and how people live and work in space.

2200 Bancroft Way context map, image courtesy UC Berkeley campus master plan

Predevelopment Funding for Student Housing at 2200 Bancroft Way, Southside, Berkeley

5:30 am on September 27, 2023 By Andrew Nelson

The UC Board of Regents has dedicated $7 million to kick-start the pre-development of a new student housing complex at 2200 Bancroft Way in Southside, Berkeley. The project will replace a two-story structure and surface parking with a 1,400-bed dormitory to satisfy the city’s insatiable demand for housing UC Berkeley students.

UC Berkeley’s Gateway Building, rendering by Weiss Manfredi

Construction Progress for UC Berkeley’s Gateway Building

5:30 am on July 19, 2023 By Andrew Nelson

Construction is moving forward on Gateway, the future home for UC Berkeley’s first new college in over half a century. The College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, or CDSS, will occupy the new structure on the northwest edge of the parcel. Weiss/Manfredi is responsible for the design.

415 20th Street evening view along the Oakland downtown skyline, rendering from Hines

Demolition Permits Filed for 415 20th Street, Downtown Oakland

5:30 am on August 3, 2022 By Andrew Nelson

Plans for the tallest development in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco have passed a new milestone. Demolition permits are filed for the four-story structure at 415 20th Street in Downtown Oakland. The property is where Hines has proposed a 39-story office skyscraper, with design by architecture firm Pickard Chilton.

New Parnassus Hospital, seen from Hillway, rendering courtesy UCSF

$4.3 Billion Campus Expansion Approved for UCSF Parnassus Heights, San Francisco

5:00 am on May 26, 2022 By Andrew Nelson

The University of California Board of Regents has approved plans and a $4.3 billion budget to build 1.5 million square feet for the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco. The master plan expands the medical complex’s constrained capacity with design by Herzog & de Meuron. According to UCSF, construction is expected to start next year.

ZSFG Research Building, rendering courtesy the UC Regents

Construction Underway on UCSF Research Building at S.F. General Hospital

5:30 am on April 19, 2022 By Andrew Nelson

Construction work has topped out with facade installation imminent on the latest addition to the UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, or ZSFG. The five-story building is rising at the corner of 23rd and Vermont Street in the Mission District, on what was once a surface parking lot. The UC Board of Regents is responsible for the project.

New Renderings by Herzog & de Meuron For UCSF Parnassus Hospital

5:30 am on December 31, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

Detailed new renderings have been published for UCSF’s proposed new hospital addition to the Parnassus Heights Campus. The new renderings with design by Herzog & de Meuron come with the Draft Environmental Impact Report’s publication and the start of a public comment period. University of California, San Francisco is the project sponsor.

People's Park seen from across the street, image via UC Berkeley design by LMS Architects and Hood Design Studio

UC Regents Approve People’s Park Development in Southside, Berkeley

5:30 am on October 5, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The UC Board of Regents has approved plans for UC Berkeley construct a $312 million mixed-housing project to replace the historically significant People’s Park in Southside, Berkeley. The L-shaped complex would take up less than half of the existing park to create housing for 1,113 university students and roughly a hundred units for extremely low income, unhoused, or formerly unhoused people. 1.7 acres of the 2.8-acre park would become landscaped open space.

UCSF Parnassus Heights campus new hospital overlooking Saunders Court, design concept from previous iteration, rendering by UCSF via Perkins Eastman

UCSF Parnassus Heights Housing and Hospital Proposal Approved, Sunset District, San Francisco

5:30 am on January 26, 2021 By Andrew Nelson

The Regents of the University of California, the governing body for the state-wide university system, has unanimously voted to approve a $3 billion 30-year development of the U.C. San Francisco Parnassus Heights campus in Sunset District, San Francisco. Herzog & de Meuron, with HDR as the architect of record, will design the medical facility expansion, including 1,263 residential units for students and hospital staff, a new hospital, and research buildings.

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