| Construction of our new building is underway near the west entrance of the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland. The Maxine F. Singer building, a 79,000 sq. ft. biomedical research facility, will become the new home of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Embryology, which has been affiliated with the University since 1913. The Singer building, designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Washington, D.C., promotes state-of-the-art genomic research through an open layout that encourages collaboration. Core spaces include a computing facility, vivarium, biotechnology lab, library and common meeting rooms. Clad in brick, metal panels and copper shingles, the three-level building is built into an existing hill, and features large, attractive windows.
As part of the project, extensive landscaping and hill restoration on the site will be carried out. By planting trees and native plants, the area, a former surface parking lot, will be returned to a park-like setting. Completion in early 2005 is expected.
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