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Tour Bakar BioEnginuity Hub in Virtual Reality

Bakar Bioenginuity Hub is the conversion of the former Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive into a modern, life science incubator...

A Complete Guide to Adaptive Reuse in 2023

Green Building & Design | June 19, 2023 by Andrew Biro If you’ve ever seen or been inside a building that serves a different function...

Once deemed unsafe, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub is now a modern coworking science lab

R&D World | June 2, 2023 by Heather Hall Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms a historically significant building on the University of...

Is Converting Office Into Multifamily a Good Fit?

Multi-Housing News | May 3, 2023 by Fotios Tsarouhis Converting office space to multifamily housing is an increasingly popular idea,...

The Benefits of An Amenity-Rich Model

Eddie Hall, project architect and senior associate at MBH Architects, talks about his career highlights and valuable skills for lab...

MBH Architects on Trends in Bay Area Life Science Design

Eddie Hall shares details about the firm's latest development, and weighs in on both ground-up and adaptive-reuse projects in the sector....

Adaptive Innovation

MBH Architects transformed a vacated building into a LEED Gold-certified innovation hub at the University of California, Berkeley campus...

Art Becomes Science

LD+A Magazine | January 2023 by Michele Zimmerman A landmark building on the campus of UC Berkeley undergoes an overhaul that suits its...

15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023

Metropolis | January 4, 2023 Living through 2022 felt like living in a kaleidoscope. The Metaverse, the war in Ukraine, supply chain...

Breathing New Life Into an Old Landmark Building

A museum facility has been rehabilitated into a LEED Gold life sciences building at the University of California, Berkeley. FacilitiesNET...

Former Museum Transformed into a Hub of Innovation at UC Berkeley

i+s Magazine | December 6, 2022 by AnnMarie Martin MBH Architects transformed a vacated building into a LEED Gold-certified innovation...

Vacated because of Seismic Concerns, Mario Ciampi’s Former Berkeley Art Museum Is Reborn

Retrofit | November 7, 2022 by Brian Libby It sounds almost like a daredevil act or at least a contradiction: a building located beside...

Architizer A+ Special Mention: Bakar BioEnginuity Hub // MBH Architects

Architizer | October 20th, 2022 Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms a historically-significant building on the University of California,...

MBH Architects Shares 3 Examples of Incredible Adaptive Reuse

Green Building & Design | July 12, 2022 by Tom Pflueger Adaptive reuse today takes on many forms, from preserving heritage to...

4 Wellness-Centered Spaces for Work and Working Out

Interior Design | July 5, 2022 by Peter Webster As this globe-spanning quartet of athletic and office facilities attests, modern...

Reuse | Arts & Sciences

Metropolis | By Kenneth Caldwell Earlier this year the Berkeley Art Museum, a Brutalist structure close to Northern California’s...

Project Profile: Bakar BioEnginuity Hub

Archello | June 13, 2022 Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms a historically-significant building on the University of California,...

Bakar BioEnginuity Hub wins Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards

Architizer | June 7, 2022 Bakar BioEnginuity Hub has been given Special Mention in the Institutional Higher Education and Research...

Brutalist former Berkeley Art Museum transformed into modern life science lab

Building was vacated in 2014 after it was found seismically unsafe. Building Design + Construction | May 20, 2022 After extensive...

MBH Architects Transforms Former Berkeley Art Museum Into Life Sciences Lab On Berkeley Campus

World Architecture | May 4, 2022 Alameda-based architecture and design firm MBH Architects has transformed the former Berkeley Art...

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