We are pleased to announce that the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering at Boston University was awarded the 2018 TurnKey Facility of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in the design/build of a new or renovated laboratory animal facility.
Boston University required an interdisciplinary building to bring together life scientists, engineers, and physicians for the study of systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging and biological design. In lieu of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to program distribution, the Kilachand Center was designed for targeted flexibility to accommodate a broad array of research pursuits. The design team implemented a zoned approach on each floor, creating low, medium and high intensity areas. This allows for low intensity program spaces, such as computational labs and offices, and high-intensity program spaces. As a result, the building can accommodate a wide range of research pursuits while limiting the amount of space designed to the most stringent and costly performance requirements.
The TurnKey Awards are presented by ALN Magazine, published by Advantage Business Marketing.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.