The Chicago Athenaeum Museum  of Architecture and Design has awarded the ZGF designed J. Craig Venter Institute La Jolla with an American Architecture Design Award. According to their website, “Since 1994, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as away in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important American architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally and International architects and designers practicing inside the USA.”

The J. Craig Venter Institute is a leader in genomic research, with a commitment to environmental stewardship. Designed with a net-zero energy footprint, the LEED-Platinum certified building is the first net-zero energy biological laboratory in the world.