Kuryłowicz&Associates reveals design for golden Antarctic research centre
The Henry Arctowski Antarctic Station, a prefabricated research centre with golden-coloured metal cladding, is set to be built on King George Island in Antarctica. More
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Morphosis weaves textile research facility facade from reinforced fibre
The folded facade of the Morphosis-designed Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul is made from a high tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests. More
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Mexican research facility El Humedal designed by TAAR to be completely self-sustaining
An environmental research centre in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Taller de Arquitectura de Alto Rendimiento, produces all of the resources it needs onsite. More
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Gluck+ designs coastal laboratory in North Carolina to withstand extreme weather
The broken-up massing of this Duke University research facility by US firm Gluck+ is meant to help protect the building from storm surge. More
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Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography
CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. More
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OMA builds city-inspired engineering school for Ecole Centrale Paris
Rem Koolhaas' firm looked at urban-design patterns when drawing up plans for this laboratory building at an engineering school on the outskirts of Paris. More
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Restoration work completes on Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in California
The Salk Institute's worn teak windows have been cleaned up, repaired and replaced as part of the conservation of the coastal Californian laboratory designed by American architect Louis Kahn. More
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Toshiko Mori and Maya Lin create buildings for Boston pharmaceutical campus
Architects Toshiko Mori, Maya Lin and CannonDesign teamed up to design this new research complex for Swiss drug company Novartis, located in the Boston area. More
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Ministry of Design creates robot training facility lined with metal and tube lights
Architects Ministry of Design created this faceted robotics lab in Singapore to train and inspire engineers working with new automation technologies. More
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Old textile factory renovated into food research studio for Ferran Adrià's El Bulli Lab
Spanish architecture practice Francesc Rifé Studio used polycarbonate sheets to divide an old textile factory into offices for the chef and staff behind the world-famous El Bulli restaurant (+ slideshow). More
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NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More
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Caruso St John reveals designs for university laboratory in Basel
Caruso St John Architects has unveiled plans for a new £160 million biomedical laboratory at University of Basel, Switzerland, which features a gridded glass facade and a concrete base with arch-shaped notches. More
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Constructed Images: Simon Kennedy distorts the interior of a disused London laboratory
Photo essay: British photographer Simon Kennedy documents an old laboratory at University College London in this series of manipulated images, which each come in positive and negative forms (+ slideshow). More
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Ennead Architects chosen for Chile's subantarctic research centre
Ennead Architects has been selected to design a research centre near Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, which will promote study and ecological tourism in the remote region (+ slideshow). More
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Palaeontology research centre wrapped in computer-controlled shutters
Automated shutters are used to regulate the internal climate of this environmental science and palaeontology research centre for a university near Barcelona (+ slideshow). More
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Rippling aluminium fronts Bristol university laboratories by Sheppard Robson
Wavy panels of anodised aluminium conceal ventilation channels within the facade of this university science facility in Bristol, England, by British architecture firm Sheppard Robson (+ slideshow). More
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Laddered metal fins angle from the facade of Cambridgeshire laboratory by Abell Nepp
A row of aluminium ribs curves away from the serrated glass facade of this research laboratory in England to help shelter occupants from the sun (+ slideshow). More
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Cedar-clad field station by Go Logic houses University of Chicago laboratory
This energy-efficient laboratory by architecture office Go Logic is clad in pale cedar to reference agricultural buildings found close to its site in a remote forest clearing in Michigan (+ slideshow). More
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Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus redesign for Roche healthcare
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans to redevelop the Basel campus of Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche, adding a 205-metre-high tower and a research centre (+ slideshow). More
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Australian Plant Bank by BVN Donovan Hill dedicated to preserving native seeds
Australian firm BVN Donovan Hill has completed a plant research facility in New South Wales offering laboratories and archive facilities dedicated to the preservation of indigenous seeds (+ slideshow). More
