Life sciences
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about life sciences
Project • By KPF • Research Facilities
One North Quay
Europe’s largest and most technologically advanced commercial health and life sciences building, this vertical campus supports cross-discipline collaboration, sets ambitious sustainability targets and will become an iconic presence at the heart of North Quay.
Community-focused design encourages collaboration and innovation, by creating a stack of ‘neighbourhoods’ with interconnecting communal spaces that eliminate barriers and allow for interdisciplinary socialising. The stacking arrangement provides ultimate flexibility in tenant scale, arrangement, and sectors, providing space for tenants to expand and grow on the site, without losing the sense of being part of an exciting environment.
Designed for flexibility, the dev... More
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 Flad Architects • Offices
Nexus on Grand
With a glass curtainwall façade providing natural daylight and views to San Francisco Bay, Nexus on Grand is a new life science campus providing 140,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research laboratories, office space, and amenities in the heart of the South San Francisco biotech hub. Flad Architects partnered with developer Healthpeak Properties to design the five-story, modern, urban campus to provide flexible lab and office spaces supporting groundbreaking research of today and tomorrow.
Tim Griffith
Tim Griffith
Tim Griffith
Working from previously approved entitlements for the campus, Flad reimagined the site to match the character of the surrounding neighborhood, combining the original design of two facilitie... More
Project • By Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects • Laboratories
Chr. Hansen Innovation Campus
Close interaction with nature, generous daylight and an intuitive functionality are central elements of Chr. Hansen’s new 15,000 m2 Innovation Campus with PensionDanmark as an investor.
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Rasmus Hjortshøj
The proposal extends the existing Hørsholm headquarters and will accommodate up to 250 new researchers. The new campus include a new main building, laboratories, meeting center and application center creating a future-proof center for innovation, knowledge sharing and customer support.
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Today, the headquarters are solitary buildings scattered on the grounds. This project will merge the existing ones into a cohesive campus with an... More
Ellison Institute of Technology
The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine is a world-class cancer research and treatment institute with a mission that encourages healthcare professionals to collaborate and interact in a nature-centric environment.
Art Gray
The Institute’s founding director, Dr. David Agus, believes in a fundamental strategy change leading the fight against cancer – changing the soil, so the seed won’t grow. This innovative premise is key inspiration for creating an environment that supports the best research and inspires discovery.
Art Gray
The design incorporates principles of nature. As a result, the natural environment informs the materials and open spatial experience. Thermory (wood), plants, and a ric... More