Yazdani Studio, the experimental (yet separate) arm of CannonDesign, has shared a first look at renderings and details of its in-progress Resnick Sustainability Resource Center, an environmental research hub at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena that will be built to express the humanity-bettering work underway within.
Yazdani Studio, a 20-year-old firm-within-a-firm of sorts headed by Iranian American architect Mehrdad Yazdani and physically located at the Los Angeles offices of CannonDesign, first announced it had been selected by Caltech to design the roughly 80,000-square-foot project in July of last year.
Plans for the building were first made public in September of 2019 when $750 million was pledged to Caltech by Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of the L.A.-based Wonderful Company (of pistachio, almond, mandarins, and bottled pomegranate juice fame)….