The Northeast Precinct of the UC Berkeley campus, centered on the Hearst Mining Circle, is one of the oldest parts of the University. The Hearst Memorial Mining Building, designed by John Galen Howard is part of the original master plan for the campus organized about an axis oriented towards the Golden Gate. The precinct had suffered from ad-hoc planning and neglect for many years. The ongoing building program of seismic retrofit created the opportunity to organize buildings to make coherent public spaces, and is based on the original design intentions of the early campus planners. The master plan redefined the location of the rebuilt Stanley Hall (by ZGF architects) and its height, massing, scale and relationship to the Mining Circle together with unbuilt proposals for the replacement of Evans Hall.