UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ

UC Berkeley Engineering Center establishing view, rendering by Skidmore Owings and Merrill

Construction Starts for SOM-Designed Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley Campus

5:30 am on April 26, 2023 By Andrew Nelson

UC Berkeley has celebrated the official groundbreaking for their latest campus expansion, the UC Berkeley Engineering Center. The $95 million project makes adaptive reuse of the existing building, transforming the concrete structure into a prominent lightweight glass and steel skin centerpiece designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. The new engineering center is expected to open in Berkeley by early 2025.

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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.

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