By Lindsey Coulter��

Arnold��Swanborn, AIA, LEED AP, is one of the newest members of the �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l Editorial Advisory Board.��Swanborn��is Design Principal at CO Architects in Los Angeles, and, after more than three decades in the industry,��has created a diverse portfolio of award-winning projects, including higher research and academic facilities, medical and health sciences education buildings, healthcare facilities, and K-12 schools — ranging from��100,000 square feet��to more than��2 million square feet.����

Swanborn��leads CO Architects’ design direction. His work focuses on connecting people to place through the design of sustainable buildings that are responsive to their environments. His widely publicized work includes the Health Sciences Innovation Building, Health Sciences Education Building, and Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building for the University of Arizona and the Loyola Marymount University Life Sciences Building. Notable under-construction��projects of his��include the Wichita Biomedical Campus, the Arizona State University Health Building, and the University of Texas at Austin Autry C. Stephens Engineering Discovery Building.

A native of the Netherlands,��Swanborn’s��architectural influences include Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Frank Gehry. Visual artists he finds inspiring include Frank Stella and Dutch master Vermeer.��He��received his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California.����

�Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l talked with��Swanborn��about his design philosophy and how he applies sustainable principles across��projects. Watch for more of this interview in the upcoming K-12 issue of �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l, introducing all new Editorial Advisory Board members.��

SCN:��What drew you to architecture initially, and how did your early experiences shape your design philosophy?��

Swanborn:��The work I do today has a lineage that goes back to growing up in Holland. I��can’t��remember a time when I was not drawn to crafting, making,��and��creating. As with many young kids, it started with Legos, the ubiquitous blocks from which you could create anything you dreamed of. I was obsessed. My creative outlets expanded to more intricate and delicate creations—functioning balsa-wood airplanes, model cars. These creative outlets were fostered by a grandfather who built sailboats and furniture and a father who was trained as an architect and always tinkered around the house. Those nascent influences grew into an appreciation of tactile experiences and well-crafted objects and spaces. The transition into the field of architecture was seemingly��preordained,��natural. The obsession and drive to design and build that started as a young kid continues to this day. My work explores light and tactile��surfaces, and��is driven by narrative and��the experiential.����

SCN:��Your portfolio spans research, academic, healthcare, and K–12 projects. What common design principles carry across these different building types?��

Swanborn:��At its core, architecture is the artistic expression of an intentional set of experiences.��So��no matter what the program, for me it starts by narratively constructing those experiences. Since the program, location, and climatic conditions��vary��project to project, the outcome is always��bespoke��to the circumstance. In a��way��these building projects are like cities. We��have to��move people, give them places to learn, work, and heal, and do it in a way that inspires them to be at their best.��Connecting to place, time, and nature is what drives the work through the use of daylight to form and define space, surface, and user experiences.��I like to think of light as a material. Free, sustainable, and ever-changing, it creates dynamic and surprisingly new experiences to delight and provide joy in a variety of environments: education, healing, workplace. We��don’t��see light until it reflects and washes across��a surface. Light creates a��mystique when you put it in the right place on and in a building. Light is the life of a building.����

SCN:��Sustainability is a core focus of your work. How do you approach sustainable design in large, complex institutional buildings?��

Swanborn: At the highest level we strive to create 100-year buildings. Designing buildings to be flexible and adaptable over time is the most sustainable measure. Our planet has limited resources; we need to think more holistically about the crafting and making of buildings. For me that begins with understanding where it is in the world vis-à-vis the climate. Then look for passive solutions for daylighting, ways to control solar exposure with an eye on reducing the EUI (energy use index). These have been the basics. Now, embodied carbon and electrification are the big focuses for reducing the initial and operational carbon footprint. For example, we start every project by exploring mass timber, but look at all of our choices with a lens toward carbon neutrality. Hence, while we can design a stunning double-skin glass wall, the question of appropriateness is always at the forefront. The answer is more reasonably found in a vernacular that is regionally appropriate.

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By Lindsey Coulter��

PHOENIX — Arizona State University (ASU) recently announced plans for an estimated 200,000-square-foot building in Phoenix that will serve as ASU Health’s new headquarters. The multistory School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering facility, designed by CO Architects in collaboration with DFDG Architecture and being constructed by McCarthy Building Companies, will join the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and several biotech research companies at the downtown Phoenix Bioscience Core.��

“This endeavor is more than a building, and this is much more than a medical school,” said ASU President Michael Crow, in a statement. “This will be the headquarters of ASU Health, a new hub of innovation, teaching and learning to enhance health outcomes for the people of Arizona.”��

The project is one of several within the city’s Bioscience Core��designed by CO Architects. The firm is responsible for two of the precinct’s early buildings for University of Arizona’s health sciences and biomedical research programs. “We’re leveraging our vast experience in Arizona, and in Phoenix specifically, for the new ASU Health facility,” said Jenna Knudsen, FAIA, Managing Principal of CO Architects, in a statement.��

DFDG Architecture also recently collaborated on the ASU Health Futures Building and the adjacent Mayo Clinic Integrated Education & Research Building to integrate medical research and educational training in North Phoenix. “That momentum will carry over to this project, the latest addition to greater Phoenix’s health-sciences construction boom,” said DFDG President Darrin Orndorff, AIA, in a statement.��

In addition to housing ASU’s first-ever Phoenix medical school offering MD degrees and hosting select existing programs from the Health Solutions and Nursing schools, the building will include space for ASU’s clinical affiliate,��. The new facility will also accommodate two new programs, expanding ASU Health’s multi-discipline curricula. The School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering will teach future physicians how to improve patient care by blending medicine, engineering, technology and humanities. ASU Health’s new School of Technology for Public Health will focus on the integration of digital technology and data-driven decisions, aiming to improve local public health.��

Facility features are projected to include virtual anatomy and clinical-skills laboratories, exam rooms, classrooms, study spaces, administrative offices, and a simulation center with mock operating and emergency rooms. Further, the new ASU Health headquarters will offer community-facing programs so that members of the public can interface with technology-enabled information on health-related issues such as immunizations.����

“ASU’s forward-thinking approach to preparing future medical and health service professionals and advancing community health education is plainly demonstrated by this progressive project,” said Carlos Diaz, Vice President of Operations at McCarthy Building Companies, in a statement. “We are eager to bring together our national expertise in simulation lab construction and our local team’s demonstrated competence on complex worksites to collaborate with these exceptional design partners and support ASU’s vision.”��

The ASU Health School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering building is designed to help address workforce shortages while improving public health outcomes in Phoenix and beyond. Preliminary sitework is set to begin this fall, with construction starting in early 2026. ASU Health will begin accepting student applications later this year and plans to commence classes in the new building in fall 2028.��

The project team also includes Meyer Borgman Johnson (structural engineering), Spectrum Engineers (MEP engineering), Dibble Engineers (civil engineering), TrueForm Landscape Architecture Studio (landscape architecture), Bowman Fire & Life Safety (safety consultant), WSP USA Buildings (sustainability consultant) and NV5 (AV/IT/security consultant).��

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By Clay Phillips, AIA

Higher education buildings often have more stakeholders than other projects. Architects are tasked with integrating input from deans, department heads, faculty, facilities staff, and even students and donors. Lab-intensive health sciences facilities further intensify client coordination—universities are looking for 50-, 75-, even 100-year buildings, and the constantly evolving simulation technology for health sciences education requires us to consider current needs and future possibilities. The benefit of working for universities is that they understand the investment it takes to create enduring, complex projects with high-quality design.

A prime example is a project that is currently under construction and one of the most complex of my 30-year career. The is a collaboration among two design firms— and —and three schools: Wichita State University (WSU), WSU Tech, and University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). The 350,000-square-foot, eight-story building will consolidate multiple interdisciplinary programs. WSU’s College of Health Professions and Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, WSU Tech’s Health Professions program, and the Wichita campuses of KU School of Medicine and KU School of Pharmacy will collocate at the new campus. Future doctors, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, and medical technicians will learn alongside each other, foreshadowing real-world working conditions.

The COVID-19 pandemic propelled the collaboration between the three institutions after the schools initially investigated separate buildings. Increased local need for health sciences education paired with decreasing resources spawned “better together” conversations, leading to creation of a regionally significant shared campus in downtown Wichita.

Helix and CO were hired jointly to design Phase I of the WBC. The two firms have collaborated on several medical education buildings during the past decade and enjoy a productive working relationship. Creative alignment included a charette with team members from both firms to discuss big-picture ideas. Based on an enduring rapport and collaborative design rhythm, the combined team decided that CO would leverage its expertise in medical simulation spaces and lead the building’s overall design. Helix would lend its proficiency in university buildings and workplaces to oversee the interiors and add context-based local design insights throughout.

Apportioning Resources

Coordinating a project among three distinct clients with a two-firm design team required extensive front-end planning. The three schools formed a project steering committee of roughly a dozen representatives. Our design team hosted multiple sessions with the steering committee, both in person and virtually. Break-out sessions with more than 15 departments were also held, some with more than 30 people sharing opinions. Having a set end date helped keep the project on track, and we were able to release the project in multiple bid packages to accelerate the design schedule.

Each academic institution brought its own priorities to the table and wanted its respective school culture adequately represented. Early in the process, we presented multiple stacking diagrams to illustrate options and guide decision-making. The design consensus evolved from our initial approach of integrating the three users throughout to each having separate areas in addition to some common spaces.

Shared learning environments required compromise as well. The simulation and anatomy labs became the focal points of early planning discussions. These interdisciplinary learning spaces will feature advanced labs and cutting-edge simulation rooms for immersive, hands-on training—expensive learning tools that helped drive the institutions’ decision to do the joint venture.

Interior Palettes, Exterior Influences

Beyond school-specific spaces, the interior is designed as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary hub for all students. Thus, we wanted the interior palette to not favor one institution or another. KUMC and the WSU schools use bold, high-contrast school colors: red/blue and black/yellow, respectively. To unify shared spaces, our interiors team selected more restrained tones that subtly reference these palettes. Labs and conference rooms feature warm, modern hues, while brighter, more energetic colors appear in classrooms, student lounges and learning hubs. Staff lounges and offices incorporate vibrant accents for contrast.

Wayfinding strategies were key considerations in interior design. In addition to helping students and staff navigate the building, clear signage also supports the WBC’s public-facing functions, including a new third-floor clinic that will expand high-demand health services in Wichita.

For the WBC’s façade, the Helix/CO team drew inspiration from the nearby Flint Hills and their distinctive stair-step geology, juxtaposing terra-cotta panels and bands of glass on a stepped profile. Transforming Wichita’s skyline, a street-facing, three-story pavilion houses three 80-seat classrooms that can easily convert into an events venue, with an attached rooftop terrace overlooking a major city thoroughfare. To reinforce local connections, key community areas within the building were intentionally positioned to frame views of the city and surrounding landscape. This helps establish WBC’s downtown identity and showcases the role each higher education institution is playing in energizing the city.

Read more about how the project timeline and how it is projected to catalyze regional growth in the of �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l.

Clay Phillips, AIA, is a principal and the Higher Education Market leader for . He is also a member of the �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l Editorial Advisory Board.

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By Megan Marsh

As education methods and types of spaces evolve, CO Architects is continually exploring emerging trends shaping the future of interiors in higher education. Our challenge as architects and interior designers is to create university environments that foster community, places that support collaboration, encourage interactions among people with varying points of view and forge human bonds. These key trends are important design elements shaping the future of higher education.

1. Flexibility

In an era where everyone must do more with less, flexible design solutions ensure that universities utilize spaces to their full potential. Flexible spaces and furniture that adapt to the future of education are a growing trend. Clients are also increasingly requesting agile spaces that are equipped to respond to various technologies and experiential needs. Many of our projects include movable partitions that allow classrooms to expand as well as large gathering areas that can be reconfigured to host various event types and group sizes, such as lectures, graduation ceremonies and TED Talks.

Designers are now combining business, education, and leisure in blended-use spaces instead of programming them separately for work or gathering. Co-mingling increases occupancy through varying uses throughout the day. Movable, versatile furniture is a vital aspect of space flexibility. Foldable and stackable furniture with integrated storage allows for quick reconfiguration for different activities.

2. Tech-Enabled Spaces

A corollary of flexible design is integrating current technology into campuses for both new buildings and modernizations of older ones to ensure longevity and relevancy. Examples include integrating Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to enrich students’ campus and education experiences. The evolution of higher education design to focus on technology-driven learning environments as technology-enhanced spaces like AR and VR labs help make complex concepts easier to understand.

Other features routinely included are interactive smartboards, video-conferencing tools and other collaborative software as well as podcast rooms and recording studios for professors to professionally record lectures for hybrid learning, meeting current teaching needs but also accelerating new teaching methodologies.

3. Neurodiversity

Recognizing that students learn in a wide variety of ways, universities are becoming more accommodating to a range of cognitive and sensory preferences. Designs ensure that a choice of sensory environments is provided, in order to cater to diverse learning styles and needs. This can include a variety of study, learning and meeting environments, providing dimmable lighting and a range of color palettes. Collaboration areas vary from brighter rooms with plenty of natural light, to darker rooms with soft lighting as well as a range of visual and acoustical privacy elements. A mix of furniture types adds additional choices, allowing students to choose based on how they’re feeling at any given time.

4. Community-Fostering

The overall square footage in the education sector has remained relatively stable. However, space allocation has shifted toward slightly smaller private offices for faculty and an increase in flexible, shared workspaces or hybrid work models for faculty and staff.

This decrease in private workspaces is offset by a significant increase in public and community-life spaces, such as larger common areas, student lounges, collaboration zones and wellness facilities. Spaces that prioritize social interaction, support student well-being, and enhance campus life reflect a shift toward more communal, multi-functional environments within educational buildings.

5. Local Outreach

Higher education design increasingly considers and embraces the neighboring community. Multi-modal lecture spaces are often designed to also host community events, drawing residents onto campuses. Design details regularly embrace local influences and neighborhood history. Art installations often draw inspiration from the site surroundings and sometimes showcase the work of local artisans.

Visit the to see how wellness, outdoor learning spaces and sustainability are also shaping the future of higher education.

Megan Marsh is a senior interior designer and senior associate in the Los Angeles office of CO Architects.

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FORT WORTH, Texas—Texas Christian University aims to increase both its teaching and health-care capabilities in the greater Dallas area thanks to its soon-to-be-realized Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine building, the first major TCU building to be constructed off the main campus. When completed in the summer of 2024, the Burnett School will train 240 “Empathetic Scholars” in a modern medical teaching facility located in Fort Worth’s Medical Innovation District and convenient to several local hospitals and clinics.

As designed by CO Architects and Hoefer Welker’s Dallas-Fort Worth office, the Burnett School of Medicine facility will encompass 95,000 square feet of educational space for the medical profession and is part of 5.3-acre “extended campus” plan envisioned by TCU. The four-story structure will be sited at the corners of South Henderson and West Rosedale.

The medical education center is named in honor of Fort Worth native Anne Burnett Marion, a philanthropist who was dedicated to serving her community and the cause of medical education. Prior to her death in 2020, Burnett Marion donated $50 million to the medical school’s construction budget.

Jonathan Kanda, principal at Los Angeles-based CO Architects, said that his company’s approach entails respecting the local aesthetic of the DFW region, while infusing the school with modern amenities necessary to current medical education.

“This new home will enable collaborative learning in team-based classrooms, experiential learning in simulated medical environments, and a meaningful, intimate culture in a wide range of community areas and small-group study spaces,” Kanda said.

Meanwhile, Travis Leissner, an associate principal at Hoefer Welker, believes that the new medical campus will serve to fuel future innovation “not just through traditional life science research but also through close engagement with a broad, interdisciplinary array of hospital systems, health-related consortia, and biotech industries partners.”

The designers are working in conjunction with Linbeck, who is acting as both construction manager and general contractor, as well as civil and structural engineer Dunaway and building systems engineer SSR Inc. Together they will have to tackle a project timeline that must allow for the building to be ready for the next class of students in the fall of 2024. (The first class commenced their studies in 2019, according to the university.)

“To meet construction milestones…the project team could not operate and deliver business as usual,” Hoefer Welker Vice President Tony Schmitz informed �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l. “We all have been working simultaneously and collaboratively in design and document creation to provide direction and ensure design intent and constructability have been addressed for active work in the field.”

The medical school’s dean, Stuart D. Flynn, termed it a “new era” for TCU, as well as for Fort Worth’s Near Southside Neighborhood and surrounding Tarrant County.

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LOS ANGELES—CO Architects has added a new 21,000-square-foot gymnasium at Berendo Middle School as part of a modern updating of the historic school that first opened in 1910. Berendo, located in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles, is the oldest California middle school still operating on its original site. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) operates Berendo, comprising 100 percent minority students.

General contractor Kemp Bros. Construction worked in concert with CO on remodeling Berendo’s existing administration building so that its new Healthy Start Clinic could come online in the same space. The medical health clinic now hosts a conference room, reception and three examination rooms across its 2,000 square feet.

The physical education complex features an entirely new gymnasium and athletic field, as well as a plaza that links it to the surrounding community neighborhoods of Pico-Union, MacArthur Park and Koreatown. Inside, the gym can be continually reconfigured for not only sports but also communal gatherings. Colors chosen for the interior include yellow, white and blue vinyl, thereby combining the school’s original colors with its current color blue. A banner inside the gym proudly proclaims “Charging Forward Since 1910 BERENDO” in large blue letters.

CO Architects included sustainable elements in the gym, such as structural materials made of recycled steel and steel studs covered with rigid insulation and then plaster so as to reduce the amount of thermal resistance to even below what is currently mandated by code. Additionally, a “cool roof” will reduce the amount of heat that bleeds into the building due to the typical sunshine of Southern California. The gym also features “solar tubes” that funnel natural light into the building. An outdoor campus garden has been expanded and more trees planted to provide more shade as well.

“Physical fitness is a healthy part of how kids learn, and this gym is going to bring a much needed opportunity to continue that program,” Rosa Trujillo, principal of Berendo Middle School, said in a recent statement. “My favorite place is the balcony. To be able to see the downtown skyline of Los Angeles, to be able to see the Hollywood Hills, it’s like you can look out to those areas and dream of what you’re going to be in the future, who you’re going to be in Los Angeles, and how you’re going to contribute to our city.”

In a statement emailed to �Ӱ�ԭ��ҕ�l, CO Architects Principal Fabian Kremkus, who served as design principle on this project, said that his firm “had to come up with something that strengthened the social fabric of the school so that people that live in the neighborhood really get use out of the campus.”

“This was the first opportunity where we could reinsert a real campus feel to it, providing shade, trees and grasses, and seating areas where people can gather,” Kremkus said. “It has throughout the roof area big skylights inserted, and a large north-facing three-story window also brings northern light in without contributing to the heat gain in the building from the sun.”

CO Architects’s other educated-related projects in California include Crown Hall, a new residence hall at Claremont McKenna College, as well as modernizing El Segundo High School.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif.—The University of California Regents board has approved the Riverside campus’s new $84 million Education Building II project for UCR’s School of Medicine.

Following a design-build competition, the University of California Regents—in concert with the UCR Office of Planning, Design, and Construction—selected the design-build team of Hensel Phelps and CO Architects for the construction project. Both firms are headquartered in Southern California.

Included in the education building plan are an outdoor plaza that will give the School of Medicine its own unique identity. Solar panels and state-of-the-art thermally insulating materials will help reduce the building’s environmental impact. Due to its sustainable design, the Education Building II facility has been certified LEED Platinum.

In a recent statement, Eric Bain, Hensel Phelps’ operations manager for the project, said that his firm is excited to be back at UC Riverside. Hensel Phelps previously worked on the campus’s Multidisciplinary Research Building, which won a National Award of Merit in the category Industrial, Process and Research Facilities.

“At the core of our design and construction efforts is the desire to support, promote, and advance the campus’s vision to create an inclusive and innovative learning environment,” said Bain. “The design-build team looks forward to working side by side with UCR to create a new home for the School of Medicine that will be a focal point on campus and within the broader Riverside County community.”

“We have partnered with Hensel Phelps on other strategic pursuits for the University of California, and have highly refined the process to deliver exceptional buildings,” James Simeo, principal at CO Architects and project design lead, said of the collaboration. “The new, five-story facility will create a new home for the School of Medicine, prioritizing collaborative spaces for students, faculty, and staff.”

University personnel weighed in on the value of the Education Building II project, and also praised the joint venture of the two construction firms, which is being labeled “Hensel Phelps + CO Architects.”

“I would like to thank the UC Regents for their approval of this project, which will give us the space we need to grow our class sizes to 125 students per year and continue to fulfill the mission of increasing the number of physicians in the underserved inland Southern California,” Dr. Deborah Deas, vice chancellor of health sciences and the Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the UCR School of Medicine, said of the collaboration. “There is so much to be excited about.”

Construction is due to kick off this summer, and Bain anticipates UCR School of Medicine’s Education Building II’s will be completed sometime in the middle of 2023.

UCR’s medical school first opened in 2013. In addition to its doctorate in medicine, the school offers concentrations in biomedical sciences, general surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and cardiovascular medicine.

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TUCSON, Ariz.—Los Angeles-based CO Architects recently won a 2020 American Architecture Award for its work on the $128 million University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) in Tucson.

The honor was presented in the Schools and Universities category by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

“This American Architecture Award is a tribute to our team’s insightful work on the University of Arizona HSIB,” said Scott Kelsey, FAIA, managing principal at CO Architects. “Our architects creatively unified the new multi‐purpose building with its environment, echoing our mission to elevate communities with benchmark design.”

Completed in 2019, the 230,000‐square‐foot HSIB is a multidisciplinary medical and health‐sciences education facility that supports the university’s Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health, as well as the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center. Kitchell was the general contractor on this impressive project.

To connect the HSIB to the campus’ existing masonry brick aesthetic, CO Architects selected terracotta, a material that could be extruded and manipulated. Visually appealing, the terracotta is hung on the façade’s curtainwall system, improving the building’s energy performance.

Facility highlights include the first‐floor, multi‐story “forum,” a flexible event space that serves the building’s departments, the university populace, and the outside community. The room opens to the campus through three glass hangar doors, expanding the space and supporting events from 50 to 1,000 guests. Social/study terraces are carved into the building to provide shaded outdoor access to nature and extensive views.

On the seventh floor, a black box theater‐inspired “Simulation Deck” creates immersive simulation environments that mimic realistic, multi‐sensory experiences supplemented by a viewing gallery.

The University of Arizona HSIB project is CO Architects’ eighth American Architecture Award, dating back to 2013. The 2020 award winners were selected from more than 400 entries.

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The 245,000-square-foot copper building is the latest addition to the 15-year-old Phoenix Biomedical Campus (PBC), which brings bioresearch and education to the downtown area. BSPB will be the latest facility to do that, as researchers begin to move into the building’s fifth and sixth floors. A joint venture between Sundt Construction and DPR Construction (with offices throughout Arizona) will continue to build out the 10^th floor, which was originally designed as shell space. Los Angeles-based CO Architects and locally based Ayres Saint Gross designed the 10-story facility.

“This building will foster collaborations with scientists that will lead to more cures, better treatments and bring more federal and private dollars to Arizona,” said University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart in a statement at last year’s topping out ceremony.

The Center for Applied Nanoscience and Biomedicine will be headquartered in the building, according to . Researchers in that department have been involved in major discoveries such as the Rapid DNA test, which detects early-stage bacterial infections.

“Completion of this Biomedical Sciences building will allow the University of Arizona to pursue expanded partnerships with industry that we hope will lead to groundbreaking discoveries in the areas of neuroscience, cardiovascular and thoracic science,” said Hart in a statement.

The Arizona Board of Regents approved funding for the $136 million BSPB in 2014 using Stimulus Plan for Economic and Educational Development bonds. Construction on the facility is expected to conclude in about a year.

The building is the seventh development in the expansion of the downtown PBC and expanding academic medical center built by DPR Construction.��In 2012, the adjacent opened, housing health education for the University of Arizona��and Northern Arizona University.

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