迈克尔·厄伦·休爵士丨中国白城丨Allies and Morrison

Firm： Allies and Morrison

Type： Educational › University Industrial › Laboratory Research Facility

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2020

SIZE： 100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

The Sir Michael Uren Hub is a new facility for Imperial College London on its White City Campus. The building provides flexible accommodation for translational research initiatives at the interface of biomedical sciences and engineering, including research laboratories, a potential outpatient clinic, a 160 seat seminar room and a series of social spaces to encourage informal exchange of ideas between researchers. The building's triangular footprint is in response to its site geometry along London's Westway. It memorable exterior brings to life its prominent location along a busy motorway and railway with 1,300 precast concrete fins echoing the movement of the city below.

TEAM

Client: Imperial College London

Architects: Allies and Morrison

Services and façade engineering: Buro Happold

Structure: Curtins

Laboratory planning: Abell Nepp

Contractor: ISG

Project Manager: Turner & Townsend

Cost: Faithful + Gould

Façade subcontractor: Felix/ Loveld