Amenities
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Project • By Flad Architects • Offices
Healthpeak Properties Vantage Campus
Designed to nurture discoveries that will shape the biotech industry, the new Vantage Development offers a purposeful building life science campus to serve the region's academic, commercial, and industrial science and technology research institutions.
Jason O'Rear
The Vantage campus opened in 2024 in the heart of the South San Francisco biotechnology corridor. It features one five-story and one six-story building, together totaling 342,000 square feet of state-of-the-art life science laboratory and office facilities. Both buildings provide flexible floor plans to enable tenants to adapt to their own needs and workspace configurations.
Jason O'Rear
Jason O'Rear
Design thinking
Vantage's architectural language is def... More
Project • By lahznimmo architects • Coasts
Mahon Pool
The existing Mahon Pool Amenities building was located on the edge of a spectacular rock shelf overlooking the ocean and Mahon pool. The building itself was a delapidated 1960’s brick box, which was had no relationship with its context and was visually intrusive.
Our proposal sought to create a linear building, which receded into the cliffside landscape. The building shape responds to the rock form folding around the contours and its precaste materiality seeks to become an extension of the rock landform.
A concrete skirt extends from the building and creates a terraced shelf inviting occupation and lounging. The shelf extends into a stair down to the Pool as well as integrating within the broader parkland... More