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Vinoly to Design $500M Hughes Research Campus

ASHBURN, VA-The Howard Hughes Medical Institute selects an architect to design its massive biomedical science center, temporarily called the Janelia Farm research campus. New York's Rafael Vinoly Architects will draw up the blueprints for the 750,000 sf of research labs, meeting space and housing units.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on March 05, 2002

ASHBURN, VA-Chevy Chase, MD’s The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has made headway on its 10-year, $500 million biomedical science center project with the recent selection of New York City-based Rafael Vinoly Architects PC. Construction is expected to begin in 2003 and the project’s estimated completion date is 2005.

The facility’s purpose will be cross-disciplinary research. “This unique campus will develop and share the advanced technology resources needed for the cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scientific work that will characterize the medical research of the future,” HHMI president Thomas R. Cech said upon announcing plans for the massive project a year ago.

Temporarily called Janelia Farm research campus, after the property on which it will sit, the project will ultimately consist of 750,000-sf of research labs, conference center space, and housing spread out over a 281-acre parcel of land in Loudoun County. The housing will accommodate visiting researchers, as the state-of-the-art facility will be open to chemists, physicists, computer scientists and biologists from all over the globe. HHMI acquired the sprawling property in late 2000 for $53.7 million.

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