In planning its new Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer care center in the region, UCSD sought a facility that would bring researchers, clinicians, prevention specialists, and educators under one roof in a “bench-to-bedside” approach to conquering cancer.
An effort to strengthen and clarify the overall site plan of the medical campus with thoughtful landscaping and circulation generated an unusual opportunity to improve the medical center complex with a new addition.
When FEMA funds became available to California's Santa Monica College after an earthquake, the college changed its program and asked for a brand new science building instead of an addition.