UCLA Botany Building Renovation

The renovation of the 1950s Botany Building, designed by architect Paul Revere Williams, will provide UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology…

Learning & Research Spaces Draw from a Botanical Palette

UCLA Botany Building Renovation

Los Angeles, CA

The renovation of the 1950s Botany Building, designed by architect Paul Revere Williams, will provide UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department with reimagined spaces for modern research and teaching. The renovation improves building transparency, provides views, and adds a new accessible entrance to the adjacent Botanical Garden.

CO Architects planned and designed the two-phased renovations of the four-story facility with research and teaching labs, herbarium, offices, conference rooms and classrooms. Flexible laboratories house multiple principal investigators and their associated graduate and post-doc researchers. Phase 1 renovated the first-floor entry, lobby and botanical teaching laboratory. Phase 2, the full building renovation, is seeking LEED Gold certification.

Victoria Sork, Life Sciences Division Dean and Professor, UCLA

Project Name

Botany Building Renovation

Size

37,128 GSF

Completion Date

2018

Client

University of California, Los Angeles

Services

Master Planning
Programming
Lab planning
Architecture
Interior Design

Location

Los Angeles, CA