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Designing for the future
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Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 10
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Engaging in a conversation with your brand Skillful, deliberate delivery of high quality design and innovation can help companies flourish in their research spaces, and retain key talent. We know, because for over 80 years, we've been designing buildings in which the world's most successful companies have called home.
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Leaving rigidity behind
← Johnson & Johnson’s Innovation Labs in Toronto, Ontario provide resident start-ups with state-ofthe-art equipment and core reserach labs. All regular workspaces have access to daylight.
Beyond the bench, research and development make a huge impact. Today’s revolutionary ideas could lead to the blockbuster of tomorrow. That’s why we design flexible spaces that foster this idea of infinite possibility. Places that make it easier for people to use, share, and participate. Are you interested in leading the way toward the next big discovery? From startups and spin-offs to worldwide powerhouses, we know what it means to leave a legacy. Let us help you discover yours.
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Our Science and Technology practice
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Selected Projects
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HiberCell at Hudson Research Center New York, New York Client: Taconic Investment Partners ― Size: 11,500 square feet ― Completion Date: 2019
Turnkey laboratory design for the fast moving commercial startup market At Manhattan's Hudson Research Center, Perkins&Will undertook the conversion of existing office space for the building landlord to a pre-built lab space to meet the needs of an innovative therapeutics tenant. Challenged with a lower floor to floor dimension and access to natural light, the space employs workplace design principles and maximum transparency for a collaborative environment that fosters the innovative thinking of the tenant
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
HiberCell is a New York City-based biotechnology company that is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on dormant disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) and their role in cancer relapse.
i3 Campus San Diego, California Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 600,000 square feet Completion Date: June 2017 Sustainability: LEED Silver ® (interiors), LEED Platinum® (core + shell) Awards: meets the 2030 Challenge Honor Award, AIA San Diego, 2019 Award of Merit, The Structural Engineers Association of California, 2017 Judges Award, American Concrete Institute, 2016
A new architectural icon in the University Town Centre area is redefining the traditional notion of a corporate research park in both form and function. Designed as three trapezoidal, allwhite concrete buildings, the new BioMed Realty i3 campus is now the home of leading genomics research and life sciences company - Illumina. The three buildings form a large outdoor courtyard that is interconnected to create a work-play experience unlike any other research park environment. Dramatic white concrete and glass cantilevers create iconic views of the campus from the outside while internally framing the upper level collaboration terraces and outdoor staircases. The project’s interior design was inspired by Illumina’s “work anywhere” culture, enabling staff to work wherever they feel most comfortable at any time of day. The campus is 100 percent wireless and provides a variety of work areas to accommodate different work styles and preferences.
i3 Campus
“Together with Perkins and Will, we breathed new life into an undervalued site, and delivered fresh, creative and eco-friendly thinking to attract a wolrd class tenant and exemplifies our goal of building science around a park, not a parking lot.” ― KEVIN TREMBLAY, BIOMED REALTY
― WHAT IT IS
i3 is a new life science campus in the University Towne Centre area of San Diego, developed as a destination for life science innovation.
Indigo New Headquarters Charlestown, Massachusetts Client: Indigo Ag Size: 60,000 square feet (5,574 square meters) Completion Date: 2017 Awards: Award of Excellence, Medium Workplace, Corenet New England, 2018
― WHAT IT IS
R&D headquarters for a growing agricultural technology company dedicated to helping farmers feed the world.
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Indigo New Headquarters
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The natural palette recalls the company's agricultural mission.
↑ In response to the natural palette of this project, many materials were responsibly sourced and evaluated for their material health and ability to maintain a healthy indoor air quality.
← Space was required to grow and test crops, without the availability of a greenhouse on site. Two large interior plant growth rooms were designed to provide environmental control of humidity, temperature, and light.
JLABS @ MaRS Discovery District Toronto, Ontario Client: Johnson & Johnson JLABS Size: 3,716 square meters (40,000 square feet) Completion Date: 2016
― WHAT IT IS
A strategic life science incubator at the core of Canada’s largest research cluster.
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“The project to transform and fit-out the floor into the first Canadian location for JLABS, budgeted at $18.3 million, came in on time and more than a million dollars under budget.” Scott Mabury, VP of Operations, U of T
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JLABS @ MaRS Discovery District
This was the first JLABS outside of the US, famous for the “no-stringsattached” arrangement, allowing resident companies to maintain complete entrepreneurial freedom as they build value. Nested in the West Tower of the MaRS Centre, the lab and support space footprint can house up to 50 start-up biotech companies.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
It provides a capital-efficient, resource-rich environment where emerging companies can transform. 23
L’Oreal Research and Innovation Center Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Client: L’Oreal Size: 13,935 square meters (150,000 square feet) Completion Date: 2016 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: Merit Award Architecture Greater than 50,000 sf, AIA Miami Chapter, 2018 Sustainable Infrastructure Grand Prize, Green Solutions Awards, 2017
As a socially and environmentally responsible building that helps regenerate its natural context, the project embodies the mission and vision of the company as a worldwide entity committed to global well being.
― WHAT IT IS
A new corporate research identity for the international beauty products leader in Brazil.
L’Oreal Research and Innovation Center
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Design inspiration comes from the legacy of modern Brazilian architecture’s relationship to nature. A quote from Oscar Niemeyer, the famous Brazilian architect, serves as a starting point: “Free flowing curves…the curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the oceans, and in the body of the beloved woman…curves make up the entire universe…” The lab conforms itself into the landscape, emerging as a sinuous object within it.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The entire site is carbon neutral and designed to meet the Living Building Challenge.
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Illumina Foster City Foster City, California Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 360,000 square feet (33,445 square meters) Completion Date: 2017 Sustainability: LEED Silver ®
― WHAT IT IS
A collaborative new workplace to complement Illumina's start-up mindset.
Illumina is a meeting-intensive company, so conference room space was a huge priority. Each building has thematic conference rooms that include warm-up or cool-down spaces outside of meeting rooms for groups to use before and after meetings. The meeting rooms have a curved design to symbolize the company’s work with DNA and organic materials.
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Illumina Foster City
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A global genomics leader, Illumina provides comprehensive next generation sequencing solutions to the research, clinical, and applied markets. Illumina technology is responsible for generating a large majority of the world's sequencing data.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The campus focuses on synergistic work and lab spaces- a feature many traditional life science buildings do not have. 31
Hazel Technologies Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Client: Hazel Technologies Size: 54,000 square feet Completion Date: 2022 Awards: Winner, Illinois Real Estate Journal Awards, Industrial/Manufacturing/Science, HQ, 2023
An R&D flexible laboratory space, a pilot lab, administrative functions and a 8,500 square-foot innovation lab designed for the unknown experimentation of future initiatives.
― WHAT IT IS
Fast-growing, USDA-funded agricultural technology start-up.
For more information, contact: scienceandtechnology@perkinswill.com
