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 about Caruso St John reveals designs for university laboratory in Basel
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 about Constructed Images: Simon Kennedy distorts the interior of a disused London laboratory
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 about Ennead Architects chosen for Chile's subantarctic research centre
Automated shutters are used to regulate the internal climate of this environmental science and palaeontology research centre for a university near Barcelona (+ slideshow). More about Palaeontology research centre wrapped in computer-controlled shutters
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 about Rippling aluminium fronts Bristol university laboratories by Sheppard Robson
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 about Laddered metal fins angle from the facade of Cambridgeshire laboratory by Abell Nepp
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 about Cedar-clad field station by Go Logic houses University of Chicago laboratory
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 about Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus redesign for Roche healthcare
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 about Australian Plant Bank by BVN Donovan Hill dedicated to preserving native seeds
Narrow indentations create the impression of brushstrokes across the grey plaster walls of a university chemistry facility in Germany, designed by Cologne firm Kister Scheithauer Gross (+ slideshow). More about KSG adds textured walls to university chemistry lab in Aachen
This image by German photographer Menno Aden offers a view down from the ceiling onto an empty pharmaceutical laboratory. More about Lab photographed from a bird's-eye view by Menno Aden
This engineering research facility at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, by NAPUR Architect has a steel-panelled facade that can fold open to let daylight penetrate the laboratories inside (+ slideshow). More about DEM Power Engineering Demonstration Centre by NAPUR Architect
Crinkled polished metal wraps around this electrical testing facility in northern Spain by ACXT Architects (+ slideshow). More about High Voltage Laboratory by ACXT Architects
Spanish architects Taller Básico de Arquitectura hoisted this pair of concrete laboratories in northern Spain onto red metal stilts (+ slideshow). More about Biokilab Laboratories by Taller Básico de Arquitectura
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 about World's first mobile research centre opens in Antarctica
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 about Italcementi i.lab by Richard Meier & Partners
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 about Spiralab by KINO Architects
"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 about Interview: Alan Stanton on the Stirling Prize-winning Sainsbury Laboratory
The windows of this scientific research centre in Stuttgart by Dutch architects UNStudio are lined up like rows of dominoes set to topple. More about Centre for Virtual Engineering by UNStudio
Danish architects 3XN have transformed a warehouse at popular Copenhagen restaurant Noma into an experimental food laboratory filled with modular wooden furniture and star-shaped lighting. More about Noma FoodLab by 3XN