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Bumping Into Breakthroughs
Tall research buildings tend to fragment collaboration, so successful “vertical campuses” must intentionally design circulation, shared spaces, and social hubs that encourage frequent cross-disciplinary encounters and conversations across floors
From Residence to Research: Adaptive Reuse Lessons at Mount Sinai
The transformation of Mount Sinai’s 60-year-old nurse residence into a cutting-edge Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health highlights the challenges of adaptive reuse—tight floor heights, structural limits, and code compliance—and offers key lessons in due diligence, infrastructure replacement, and creative problem-solving for future lab projects
Designing Vertically: The Future of Urban Labs
Vertical lab design is redefining urban research facilities by maximizing limited real estate, emphasizing the importance of early interdisciplinary collaboration to overcome structural, MEP, and regulatory challenges and create adaptable, high-performance spaces for the future of science