Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center

The Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri unites faculty and students from several schools and programs into one, collaboratively focused research center. The Colleges of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Human and Environmental Sciences Engineering, and the School of Medicine engage in joint research into genomic and biomolecular structures. State-of-the-art laboratories, shared meeting areas and public spaces provide unsurpassed opportunities for interdisciplinary biomedical science and agricultural biotechnology research. With the idea that a healthy building illustrates the principles that life sciences embody, research, teaching and education converge in naturally daylit laboratory spaces, generous meeting areas, and informal teaming areas located off of the primary circulation spaces. The atrium, which centralizes faculty and research offices, a café and one of the reading rooms, encourages interaction. The project was completed in collaboration with co-project designer, Anshen + Allen.