Caltech has officially dedicated the newest addition to its Pasadena campus, architecture firm HOK announced recently.

The Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, named for its principal donors, consists of a four-story, 70,000-square-foot building featuring a mix of offices and labs. The project includes two basement levels, which help to minimize vibration, electromagnetic interference and temperature fluctuation that may interfere with quantum measurements.

"The facility brings together researchers from across disciplines, including physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and computer science, to address complex scientific challenges that require both theoretical and experimental collaboration," said Caltech president Thomas Rosenbaum in a June 17 ceremony. “The notion of a place where you can bring together people who think about important problems from very different directions is very Caltech."

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The building is connected to the adjacent Downs-Lauritsen building, home to the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, through both a bridge and a tunnel.

"While the style is contemporary, the exterior has been articulated to reference horizontal and vertical cadence patterns seen on the adjacent historic buildings," reads a description of the building from a Pasadena city staff report. "The four-story building in particular draws from the fenestration patterns, pilasters, and solid-to-void rhythms of Linde Hall and incorporates these rhythms into the glazed curtain wall systems to be used on the building as well as the proposed vertical fins proposed throughout the exterior."

Other recent additions to the Caltech campus include the new Resnick Sustainability Center.

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