Richard M. Lucas Center Expansion Receives Design Award from the San Francisco American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Posted 3:24 PM, May 11, 2007, by jaruiz

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The Lucas Center Expansion has received the 2007 Design Honor Award: Excellence in Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), San Francisco Chapter (http://www.aiasf.org/Programs/Awards_Program/Design_Awards.htm). The design of the Lucas Center was a collaborative effort between the Perkins+Will Architecture and Design Firm (formerly MBT Architecture) and a radiology departmental team composed of our chairman, Gary M. Glazer, MD, and Wendy Baumgardner, RVT, LATg; Mary Bobel, MBA; Donna Cronister; Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD; Gary Glover, PhD; John Reuling; David Russel; Anne Sawyer, BS, RT (R) (MR); Susie Spielman; and Julia Tussing, MBA (who is now the managing director of finance & administration in the School of Medicine).

Our facility was one of five projects to earn the 2007 Design Honor Award, which is the highest award given in the awards program. The Lucas Center Expansion was evaluated based on its quality of design, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. Evaluators commented that the Expansion's "clever design solved the problem of lighting in a below-grade building and the workspaces exceed the expectations of the clients and visitors." You can view the Lucas Center Expansion on the AIA website at http://www.aiasf.org/Programs/Awards_Program/Design_Awards/110.htm. The award was presented during the 2007 Design Awards Gala on April 19, 2007, at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco. All winning projects will be featured in California Home and Design. The Lucas Center Expansion has also been entered in a competition at the state level.

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Completed in 2005, the Lucas Center Expansion is not only beautiful but has inspired great work. Serving as an epicenter of innovation, the Lucas Center facilities have allowed our Department to expand our research programs markedly, and we are now home to three National Centers of Excellence: the Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology (CAMRT); the In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center (ICMIC); and the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response (CCNE-TR). In July of 2006, our facility was featured in an article entitled "Richard M. Lucas Center Expansion, Stanford University: Light Court and Curtainwall Illuminate a Subterranean Lab," which was published in the "Building Type Study" section of Architectural Record focusing on college and university labs. To access the article, please go to http://www.architecturalrecord.com/projects/bts/archives/labs/06_lucasCenter
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