Berkeley, California
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
“Stanley Hall represents the new frontier of bioscience. Working side by side with McCarthy from the onset of design helped us achieve efficiencies on this incredibly complex building.”
—Renee Kajimoto, associate partner, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, LLP
McCarthy recently completed the cornerstone facility for the University of California, Berkeley’s Health Sciences Initiative.
Stanley Hall brings to the university one of the largest and most prestigious educational and research facilities on campus. The $130 million structure is home to the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), and totals 11 stories and 285,000 square feet. Stanley Hall incorporates seven research themes such as structural biology, bioengineering, chemical biology, computation and theoretical biology, and magnetic imaging. The facility houses the West Coast’s only 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a high-powered device allowing scientists to create images that show the structures of proteins. It also includes a Bio-Nano Technology Center and 40 research and teaching laboratories, classrooms and seminar facilities. Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, LLP, Portland, Ore.
