 The BBSRB was designed by famed architects and urban planners Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates with A. M. Kinney and HERA.It is the first of a series of buildings in a comprehensive plan the firms developed for the university's healthcare "precinct" in the area near the intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Limestone Street.Work began on the new $72,978,900 research facility in August 2002  with an original projected terminus date of October 2004, however, it did not open until April 2005  and is expected to be an integral part of the university's new research campus.