The Torrey Heights by Breakthrough research campus has won a 2026 Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) National Professional Design Merit Award.
Flad designed the Torrey Heights development, which features three thoughtfully designed, state-of-the-art scientific workplace buildings and an amenity building totaling 520,000 square feet. The San Diego life science campus offers top-tier leasable space for leading biotechnology firms.
Providing exceptional views of the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding natural landscape from every point on the site, Torrey Heights works in tandem with its environment to express its own character. Its steeply graded, glass fiber-reinforced, concrete window panels establish a dynamic, tessellated signature envelope. The coffered façade echoes the site’s layered geologic formations, appearing to change color and texture as the angle of sunlight shifts throughout the day and year.
Breakthrough Properties 
Torrey Heights Development
November 13, 2026