Robert Day Sciences Center named ‘best new architecture’ by L.A. Times

RDSC building

Photo by Laurian Ghinitoiu

What a way to celebrate 2025 and the anticipation of a new year at CMC!

At the end of December, CMC’s Robert Day Sciences Center topped the Los Angeles Times’ collection of local architecture all-stars, joining six other notable buildings that “expertly embody the best of Los Angeles area architecture: beautiful experiment, well-earned edge and an uncanny sense of the future.”

Of the RDSC, the L.A. Times lauded the “extraordinary” building designed by “starchitect” Bjarke Ingels and his firm BIG, which raises “your eyes and your spirit,” and merges “the school’s life science, computer science and data science programs,” creating “a new academic and social hub for the entire school.”

In addition, the Times highlighted artist Damián Ortega’s “Magnetic Field” sculpture—the newest addition to CMC’s Walker Public Art Collection—which “emphatically” punctuates the building’s “sense of place,” and previews the upcoming “adjacent new sports complex, also designed by BIG.”

Read the full L.A. Times article here.

For more coverage on the Robert Day Sciences Center from a historic fall semester, enjoy our digital issue of CMC Magazine.

Anne Bergman

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