UCSF's Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, has opened in San Francisco. Photo: © Brad Feinknopf Extra Large Image

Mount Lawley · 2009.0609
The Sydney-area office of Allen Jack + Cottier has revealed its design for new student housing at Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley, Australia, near Perth. The 355-bed project incorporates a series of interlinked courtyards and pathways to emphasize the progression of spaces from university to communal to private. Principal Michael Heenan is leading design. AJ+C partnered with Campus Living Villages on the project. Construction is schedule to start in August 2009, with opening slated for January 2011.

Los Angeles · 2009.0609
Kevin A. Spady, AIA, LEED AP, has joined Cannon Design as principal. Current assignments include healthcare practice leadership for the Los Angeles, California, office and management of the Kaiser Orange County Anaheim Medical Center project. Spady brings over 30 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an associate principal and healthcare market sector leader for Perkins + Will in Los Angeles.

Houston · 2009.0605
Architecture firm Kirksey of Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, has promoted Brian P. Richard, AIA, to vice president. Richard joined the firm in 2003 as a member of the corporate interiors team. After leaving to operate his own firm specializing in technology-related projects, he rejoined Kirksey in 2007 as the science and technology team leader.

Nashville · 2009.0604
The renovation and adaptation of One Hundred Oaks, a 40-year-old mall in Nashville, Tennessee, has been completed. The major tenant of the 880,000-square-foot (81,800-square-meter) mixed-use project is Vanderbilt University Medical Center's clinical and administrative support operations, with other space leased to retail operations by property owners ATR & Associates and Corinth Properties, both based in Dallas, Texas.

Nashville-based Gresham, Smith and Partners provided civil engineering, master planning, architecture, interior design, transportation engineering, landscape architecture, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services for the project, with Steve Johnson, AIA, serving as principal-in-charge.

LEED certification is expected for the Vanderbilt facility, which includes 22 specialty clinics. The existing structural elements of the building were retained, construction waste was recycled, regional materials were used, low- and no-VOC paint was used, and more efficient mechanical and lighting systems were installed. Rain gardens were created and 100 oak trees were planted.

San Francisco · 2009.0602
The Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building (pictured above) has opened on the Mission Bay campus of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). New York City-based Rafael Viñoly Architects designed the facility to encourage interaction and collaboration among three different cancer-related research programs.

The five-story, 162,000-square-foot (15,100-square-meter) building consists of two interlocking L-shaped masses above a stone base at street level. A skylit multistory atrium forms a focal point between the lab and office blocks, providing for building circulation and public functions. Terraced floor levels are linked by a series of bridges and cascading stairways, with glass guardrails to maximize the sense of openness. Break rooms and conference rooms are located around the periphery of each floor.

Laboratories feature an open, flexible bench environment. Each open lab suite has continuous exterior windows and clerestory glazing, external sunshades for daylight control and thermal comfort, and a light shelf and a vaulted acoustic tile ceiling to reflect sunlight into the depth of the room.

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