Who said that laboratories, research centres and other science institutions have to be boring places? Believe me, architects are doing their bests when it comes to designing the headquarters of such facilities. The following 22 images prove that I am right.
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Technical Area 3 of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is one of the largest multidisciplinary science and technology institutions in the world.
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The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Picture: John Hill, Tigerhill Studio/Argonne National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Multiprogram Research Facility (right), and the Visitor Center (left), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Picture: Randy Montoya/Sandia Labs
Technology & Engineering Development Facility, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, located in Newport News, Virginia
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The New Interdisciplinary Science Building for Energy Research at Brookhaven Lab, in Upton, New York
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The Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the headquarters for IBM Research, in Yorktown Heights, New York
Picture: Simon Greig
They conduct basic research in the fields of networks and distributed systems, scientific computing, and software engineering in the Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, Norway
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The European Southern Observatory’s headquarters in Garching, Germany
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i.lab, the new research and development center for Italcementi in Bergamo, Italy
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Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, at University of Glasgow
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Wilson Hall, the central laboratory building of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois
Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab
The Mechatronics Building in the Science Park of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria
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The Science Learning Center at the University of Texas, Dallas. The tile exterior represents two scientific patterns: atomic emission spectra of gases, and human DNA.
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Natural Science Engineering and Research Laboratory (NSERL) at the University of Texas, Dallas. The overlapping colourful anodized stainless steel shingles cover 15 per cent of the building’s surface.
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The Health Sciences Education Building at University of Arizona in Phoenix was inspired by the canyon formations found throughout the state.
Picture: University of Arizona
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
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The Atlas Building of Wageningen University and Research Center, is an environmental research complex in Wageningen, the Netherlands
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Stata Center is a home for computer, information, and intelligence science, in Cambridge, MA
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The Bharati Antarctic research station, India’s third Antarctic research facility
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ALBA is a synchrotron radiation laboratory in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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