News: the world's first mobile research facility, designed by British firm Hugh Broughton Architects, has officially opened on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. More »
Tag: laboratories
World's first mobile research centre
Italcementi i.lab by
Richard Meier & Partners
A tapered concrete roof oversails glazed laboratories at this research and innovation centre that American firm Richard Meier & Partners has completed for Italian cement manufacturer Italcementi. More »
Spiralab by
KINO Architects
The angled columns of an earthquake-proof structure frame a series of window slits on the exterior of this Tokyo research laboratory by KINO Architects (+ slideshow). More »
Interview: Alan Stanton on the
Stirling Prize-winning Sainsbury Laboratory
"The social challenge of designing a laboratory is almost as demanding as the technical challenge," Stanton Williams' Alan Stanton told Dezeen at the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize award ceremony this weekend, where his firm picked up the big prize for their design of the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, England (+ audio). More »
Centre for Virtual Engineering
by UNStudio
Noma FoodLab by 3XN
Laboratory for Behavioural and Social
Sciences by Böge Lindner K2 Architekten
Two Corten steel pavilions form the mouths to a tunnel of university laboratories inside a former army tank depot in Bremen, Germany. More »
Research Centre for Université Pierre et
Marie Curie by BIG and OFF
Danish architects BIG and Paris studio OFF have won a competition to design a research centre for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. More »
Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams

An unusual combination of limestone columns and concrete bands surrounds the exterior of a laboratory by UK architects Stanton Williams in the botanic gardens of Cambridge University. More »
Icelandic Institute of Natural History by Arkís
Mechatronik by Caramel Architekten

Austrian studio Caramel Architekten have completed the first of five buildings for a science park in Linz, Austria, which is bent in the middle and cantilevered at one end. More »
National Laboratory of Genomics
by TEN Arquitectos

Mexican studio TEN Arquitectos have recently completed a laboratory for studying genomics in Irapuato, Mexico. More »
Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory
by DHV Architecten

Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. More »
Chemical Laboratory Building
by Héctor Fernández-Elorza

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a chemical laboratory at the Universidad de Alcalá by Madrid architect Héctor Fernández-Elorza. More »





