Construction has topped out for the expansion of the Cordilleras Health Center at 200 Edmonds Road in Redwood City, San Mateo County. The replacement project will expand the county-owned mental health treatment space nestled within two open space preserves on the San Francisco Peninsula. Skanska is the project’s general contractor.
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.
New illustrations have been revealed by George Avalos for the Bay Area News Group of a campus renewal master plan that would transform the San Jose State University in Downtown San Jose. The project proposal includes a renewed campus master plan to guide the infrastructural development of the Main Campus, South Campus and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
Steel and wood have started to rise for the California College of the Arts expansion at 1140 7th Street in San Francisco. The new facilities, named Double Ground, allow CCA to close its Oakland campus and consolidate into the Design District neighborhood with a new landmark addition designed by the renowned Chicago-based architecture firm, Studio Gang. The new construction will integrate exposed concrete and mass timber within a new creative complex at the core of the urban campus.
New plans have been filed to the Oakland Planning Commission for a new religious community hub at 5901 College Avenue for the city’s Rockridge neighborhood. The plans would repurpose an existing office space and create a new home for the non-profit Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, remaining in Alameda County. Equity Community Builders is responsible for the application.
