The Helios building brings together LBL and UC Berkeley researchers to work on ways to curb climate change. Photo: Rudolph and Sletten The Helios building brings together LBL and UC Berkeley researchers to work on ways to curb climate change. Photo: Rudolph and Sletten The Helios Building, a new addition to downtown Berkeley, is in the very […]
Helios Energy Research Center
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Acheson Commons: Large change for downtown
View of the proposed Acheson Commons looking NW, including, in foreground, a proposed new 10-story UC Berkeley office building. Rendering: courtesy Equity Residential/Kirk E. Peterson Architects One of the first projects to be built under Berkeley’s recently adopted Downtown Area Plan will be Acheson Commons which will transform the entire city block bordered by University Avenue, Shattuck […]
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Room with a view: Designer charts new Berkeley buildings
The new Li Ka Shing Center on the UC Berkeley campus. Photo: TheRealMichaelMoore By Preeti Talwai Preeti Talwai, an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, has had a front-row seat as two of Berkeley’s newest buildings have arisen within sight of her downtown apartment. Here she reports on the impact watching the […]
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Berkeley’s Helios building: One year from breaking ground
The Helios building on July 17. Photo: Jef Poskanzer This time last year it was a demolition site. Today, the new five-story Helios building in downtown Berkeley stands tall — and vibrant — at 2151 Berkeley Way at Shattuck, not yet complete, but well on the way. The Helios Energy Research Facility, a UC Berkeley-Berkeley Lab initiative […]
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New Helios building rises rapidly in downtown Berkeley
A building emerges at Berkeley Way. Photo: artsnooze conceptualista/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.. Last summer it was a diggers’ delight of a demolition site, warranting a special outing for many young Bob The Builder fans. Today construction is well under way and the stories are rapidly going up on what will become the new Helios Energy Research Facility […]
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Downtown demolition: A digger fan’s delight
The demolition of the former Department of Health Services (DHS) building at 2151 Berkeley Way, is nearing completion, as can be seen by the photo above, taken on July 9. (Below, a photo taken by Berkeleysider Mimi Mugler in April which shows the building as it was then, mid-demolition.) Part of the cleared site will be used to build […]
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Helios West to go before UC Regents next week
Artist's rendering by Jennifer Mahoney New plans for the Helios Energy Research Facility will be presented to the UC Board of Regents next week. The project calls for a new five-story, 112,800 sq ft building across the street from the UC Berkeley campus, on the site bounded by Oxford, Berkeley Way, Shattuck and Hearst. The […]
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UC building moves forward
Graphic: www.cp.berkeley.edu UC will choose a contractor this week to build the $133 million Helios Energy Research Center, a five-story, 112,800-square-foot building adjacent to the central campus in downtown, according to the CoStar group newsletter. The Helios Energy center will house the Energy Biosciences Institute and the UC Berkeley Bioengineering Program, both of which are conducting […]
