By way of a plugged-in tipster and GlobeSt.com: “The University of California at San Francisco will receive approximately $34.9 million from the [California Institute for Regenerative Medicine]. It will combine the grant it with $100 million from its own coffers to construct a 74,000-sf building off Medical Center Way on its Parnassus campus, which has not seen a new research facility since the mid-1960s. The building is being designed by Rafael Viñoly of New York.”
good for inner sunset and cole valley!
Mike Bishop is going to have a tough time getting this past the local NIMBY community of the inner sunset. Good luck Mike, you will need it.
is that the architect’s rendering? it looks like quake damage.
neighborhood reaction depends on where they put this building.
i didn’t read the article, but that rendering looks like it is just to the west of the HSW building (the tallest building of the campus in the back). a building there wouldn’t block any views or get in the way of anybody…
The NIMBYs will definitely scream but in the end does it matter? As a state institution can’t UCSF ignore them and do what they want with the land? Short of the legislature threatening their funding they don’t have to follow local land-use regulations.
UCSF and the city have an agreement limiting the total square footage of the Parnassus campus, so I assume that the construction of the new building will be accompanied by the reduction of square footage elsewhere.
Because of the restrictions on Parnassus, most of the action will continue to be at Mission Bay. UCSF just broke ground on a much larger research facility than the small stem cell building on Parnassus. The new Mission Bay research center is for cardiovascular research:
http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200805062.html
Is this what passes for cutting edge modern architecture in the 21st century? Death of an art form.
This is very good for the area and SF in the long run.