Anchor House | Berkeley, CA

The UC Berkley Anchor House project is a new 750 to 800 bed high-rise student dormitory building for the University of California Berkeley. The project will include a 14-story tower with a central openair courtyard starting at Level 2. The basement will include parking, amenities and back-of-house spaces. Level 1 will include amenity space, office, back-of-house, lobby and retail spaces. Level 2 and Level 3 will be full amenity levels. Levels 4 through 14 will be typical, vertically stacked residential units configured around a double-loaded central corridor and central courtyard.

The ground floor of the complex will include a student lobby, which extends through the entire building, nearly 7,000 gross square feet (GSF) of student amenity spaces, over 4,000 GSF of office, 13,000 GSF of retail, a loading dock, and limited parking. Level 2 of the building is dedicated exclusively to student amenity space, including the nearly 12,000 GSF of exterior, landscaped courtyard area. Student apartments will include studio, two-bedroom, and four-bedroom units. The tower footprint wraps the central courtyard in a complete loop. A green roof accessible deck is offered at the very top of the building and provides another 19,000 GSF of open-air student space as well as other amenities.

Including the amenity spaces, retail, office, parking / loading, and student housing, the entire complex encompasses a total of up to 360,000 GSF.

Address: 1950 Oxford St, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Client: Representatives from UC Berkeley and the Generous Donor’s Foundation

Number of Units: 239

Construction Type: IA

Year Completed: 2023

Photography: Jason O’Rear (2024)