Laboratory buildings

Since 2013, CO Architects has delivered a series of highly customized laboratory renovations and office interior fit-outs for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA, to accommodate a broad range of research activities in multiple buildings. The repurposed labs and offices serve researchers in the fields of aeronautical engineering, biology, bioengineering, neuroscience, and materials science. By working as an integrated member of the contractor’s design-build team, CO Architects has executed design, coordination, and pricing activities, while simultaneously ensuring these complex renovations are completed on budget, and often, ahead of schedule.  “These highly specialized laboratories serve as are... More

Light-filled and open, the Undergraduate Teaching Labs put interdisciplinary learning on display. Ballinger designed the active learning and research facility for Johns Hopkins University’s biology, chemistry, neuroscience and biophysics departments. The facility is an addition to the existing Mudd Levi Biology complex that engages an adjacent lushly-landscaped garden. An expansive glass facade provides visual access to the garden from the classroom and lab spaces within, putting discovery on display to the adjacent pedestrian pathway. A student commons serves as the primary entrance from the existing building, and functions as a lounge and study space for students and faculty. Jeffery Totaro The project achieved LEED Platinum... More

Extreme technology under the hood The Synlab laboratory is the largest medical laboratory in Central and Eastern Europe, designed using the BIM method with extremely complex and stringent requirements. By converting and extending the neoclassical main building of the former Hungarian Royal Budapest Customs Free Port in the area of the free port of Csepel, the client wanted to create an office and industrial building that meets contemporary needs. The extension of a classic building block is an exciting architectural challenge. Caption Modern building in a century-old industrial environment The Royal Hungarian Budapest Customs Free Port opened in 1928 after nine years of planning and construction. When it opened, it was one of the m... More

The 96,631-square-foot Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex at California State University, Sacramento (Sac State), designed by Los Angeles-based CO Architects, serves as an educational and cultural hub for students, faculty, visitors, and the greater Sacramento community.  The new five-story, $91.5-million building features a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, light-filled science facility providing teaching and research laboratories for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.  According to the university, the facility is designed as a space for students to investigate solutions for climate change, healthy aging, and many other worldwide challenges.   Set on the banks of the American River, the facility provides in... More

The new building for the DZNE, where the similarities and differences of various brain diseases are studied, is located on the southern edge of University Hospital’s Venusberg Campus in Bonn. With a usable floor area of approximately 16,000 square meters, the DZNE provides optimal scientific conditions for an international team of more than 500 employees and visiting researchers.The building volume is divided into three distinctive, organically shaped individual buildings. These form a coherent ensemble with generous intervening outdoor spaces. The tripartite division corresponds exactly to the internal functions: the entrance building with all the general facilities – which include an auditorium, a cafeteria, a library, and the clinical re... More