A 23-story tower is set to change a Californian city skyline forever as it will become the tallest building in Berkeley. The dorm building, in what has regularly been dubbed California's most liberal city, will be targeted to freshmen and is set to hold single rooms, doubles and triples. Berkeley is pictured with the city of Oakland in the backgroundThe student population of UC Berkeley saw 7,657 new transfer and first year students enrolled in the fall semester of 2024. 'Berkeley is becoming a city of big walls and on top of that the designs are pretty uninteresting. The building comes after the university faced calls for additional housing, as students cram triples into double rooms while the city booms with students.

Source: Daily Mail March 22, 2026 14:57 UTC