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Plant Futures Facility - The University of Queensland / m3architecture

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Plant Futures Facility supports research into sustainable food, fibre, and fuel production in response to climate change and population growth. Defined as a "walled garden," the building's concept reflects its typology and context—crafted from brick in a pixilated pattern referencing Queensland's geological cross-section. From a distance, it reads as a stone wall; up close, it reveals a finely articulated façade. Internally, light and colour, combined with mirrored paneling, reflect the environmental controls of grow rooms, subtly distorting. perception and experience. The facility is both a high-performance research tool and a contextual, culturally resonant architectural statement.

E-Isolations Testing and Research Facility / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

E-Isolation, located in the city of Miki in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is the first public testing and research facility in the country that is equipped with a full-scale seismic isolation testing system capable of using a measurement method that is the first of its kind worldwide. The facility has been built to enhance earthquake-preparedness measures and develop practical seismic isolation systems in Japan, one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. With its capability to evaluate the performance of seismic isolation devices, E-Isolation provides an open space where structural researchers, designers, general contractors, manufacturers, building owners, and others can get together. This project has been implemented as a collaboration among industry, academia, and government in order to strengthen Japan's resilience to earthquakes.

Element Labs at University Research Park / Perkins&Will

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 18 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

University Research Park in Madison, WI, introduces a new model of research park typology. This site challenges the tradition of research park planning by integrating natural habitats amongst mixed-use buildings to create a vibrant community that is walkable and prioritizes the wellbeing of wildlife. The Perkins&Will-designed Element Labs, the new gateway to the campus, sitting prominently at the Northeast corner of the park, will house multiple research companies, including Invenra, a Madison-based lifesciences company. The building is the centerpiece of the emerging Element Collective district, which will contain apartments, a hotel, a fitness center, and restaurants.

ReSidence Research Installation / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) + FibR GmbH

Andreas Luco — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

ReSidence presents a forward-looking approach to multi-storey construction by uniting natural materials with low-impact digital fabrication techniques. The combination of willow, earth, flax, and wood demonstrates how challenges inherent to natural materials can be transformed into opportunities, empowering architects to actively shape and design change. Inspired by traditional half-timbered construction techniques, where willow and earth serve as non-structural infill, this project synergistically combines these materials into low-emission, structurally effective building elements.

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital / PARGADE Architecte

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In Paris (14th arrondissement), for the GHU Paris Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne (the project owner), Pargade Architects completed the new Neuroscience Center in 2024. This project bridges the legacy of architect Charles Auguste Questel (1807–1888) with a facility decidedly open to the city. Since its founding, Sainte-Anne Hospital has been a laboratory for mental health and also serves as a laboratory for architecture and urban planning. Within this demanding heritage context, the Neuroscience project, designed by Pargade Architectes, envisions the hospital of tomorrow through its architectural approach.

National Innovation Center / Joaquim Portela Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The Legal Innovation Center is located in the historic center of the city of Bragança. This building suffered several interventions over the years, to adapt to the different functions required. Some of these interventions defaced important areas of the building and required restoration.

aware lab Berlin / Kessler Plescher Architekten

Paula Pintos — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Keßler Plescher Architekten designed the first outlet for the healthcare start-up aware in Berlin. The company provides services based on blood tests such as comprehensive information and guidance to improve well-being.

Microbiological Chemical Laboratory / PENELAS ARCHITECTS

Valeria Silva — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Postindustrial Aesthetics: The building houses highly complex functional facilities for microbiological and chemical analysis laboratories. This requires great efficiency in its final use, compatible with a hyper-advanced image that, in parallel, aims to evoke emotion. The building presents a marked postindustrial aesthetic.

Urban Discourse Machine, Dr.Moghimi's Laboratory / Darkefaza Design Studio

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

This project is located in the Safayieh region in Yazd, which is one of those modern civil contexts in this city. Most of the constructions in this area are single materialled with the same form and without any dialogue with the city. The separator walls of these buildings in the street are all the same height and also, and they are all solid in material with no transparency, no matter the function of the building; because of that, the possibility of visual communication between passers and people with the buildings are very low and minimum.

Miyagi Technology Innovation Center / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Hana Abdel — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0000

An Open Design for a Center of Open Innovation - Research and development facility for the Tokyo Electron group, a leading semiconductor manufacturer

Forschungsbau - ECAP Laboratory Building (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) / ARGE dichter + Glass Kramer Löbbert

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 27 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The detection and analysis of high-energy astro particles and their distant sources set the scientific and technical goal for a new research center at Erlangen University Campus. The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics is set up to develop and contribute key soft and hard components for a range of massive international detection programs such as CTA/HESS, IceCube or KM3Net. The building‘s design has been developed following a successful competition entry in 2017.

CMIP Medical Center / jaq

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 14 May 2023 23:00:00 +0000

This project takes place in the 15e arrondissement in Paris, in a very dense urban tissue. The project was built to achieve the extension and renovation of the vaccination center (CMIP) and created a new research and innovation center specializing in human audiology (CERIAH).

Diatech Laboratories / Andrea Tabocchini Architecture

Valeria Silva — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The architectural project for the new laboratories of Diatech Pharmacogenetics, an Italian company specializing in pharmacogenetics tests for cancer precision medicine, was created from two desires: to realize a stimulating and experimental workspace and, at the same time, a tailor-made environment that reinforces the company's identity and values.

Kremlin-Bicêtre Medical School Laboratories / PARGADE Architecte

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The extension of the Faculty of Medicine, at the heart of the Kremlin-Bicêtre University Hospital site, expresses its ambition to constitute a center of excellence for French research and education, open to the city and the scientific world. Located on a dominant point, it enjoys an exceptional panoramic view of Paris and its suburbs. The shape of the building takes up the geometry of the site of implantation and creates a polyhedron whose rounded corners dialogue with the existing architecture.

Kia Lab Laboratory / Davood Boroojeni Office

Hana Abdel — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Building-City - In designing the Kia Laboratory Project, it has been tried to create an interaction between the building and the city by adding a new application to the building, which has the role of an urban hangout and to make the border between the city and the building invisible. In this way, the user is faced with a structure that is both a building and a city, and the border between the two is not easily recognizable. The idea of building-city was formed after conducting different field studies and interviews with the residents of Qarah Ziya od Din (the location of the project). The city’s inhabitants considered the existence of security and the absence of coexistence spaces as two characteristics of the location.

Écotron IIe-de-France Research Centre & Laboratory / Atelier Téqui Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The Ecotron IleDeFrance technical platform offers innovative equipment called “Ecolabs” to the research community, designed to handle ecological systems under confinement conditions and environmental control. The Écotron Île-de-France platform commissioned for CNRS and ENS research occupies a site dominated by wild natural surroundings that needed to be domesticated. The project’s architectural treatment showcases the wooden structural statement. Vertical elements impart rhythm to the frontage by alternating opaque and glazed areas.

The High Technology Incubator / DUNAR arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The High Technology Incubator (Incubadora de Alta Tecnología, IAT) and the Prototyping Plant will become a reference point for research and innovation in agribusiness in the region. It is a commitment to the bioeconomy in order to change the current way of producing and consuming. This change in the current premises of production and consumption is also reflected in the architectural proposal.

The Gamelle Laboratory / Inrestudio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The Gamelle is a small laboratory for product inspection in a factory in central Vietnam. Located by the sea at the edge of the site, the building aims to provide views of nature while protecting it from excessive exposure to the sea breeze. An outer wall encloses both functional rooms and exterior spaces, constituting a porous structure to mediate between the internal and external environment. The project has the ambiguity of the entity: eye-catching like a solid pavilion, and yet eye-penetrating to the scenery beyond with its transparency.

Lafond Desjardins Dental Laboratory / ACDF Architecture

Paula Pintos — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

ACDF Architecture is proud to unveil the Lafond Desjardins dental laboratory in Laval, a new facility that demonstrates that despite being too often forgotten by architects, industrial buildings offer great opportunities to create sensitive and refined architecture. The client sought to create a space perfectly tailored to its needs, with a level of sophistication capable of reflecting the company’s longstanding vitality and its vision of marrying artisanal work and advanced technology.

Oncolille Research Institute / jaq

Paula Pintos — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:00:00 +0000

In front of the historic Claude Huriez hospital from the 1930s, the ONCOLILLE institute is dedicated to interdisciplinary cancer research.

Med Campus Linz / LORENZATELIERS

Luciana Pejić — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

LORENZATELIERS, with its urban concept, was the unanimously chosen winner for the EU-wide competition for the new buildings of the Faculty of Medicine in Linz. The special appeal of this project lies in the chance to create a part of the inner city including the General Hospital and the University.

Dobra 55 Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics Building / Kuryłowicz & Associates

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Dobra 55 has become a pioneering new home for language education where the University of Warsaw has consolidated its varying requirements into a single sustainable center of excellence. The new 42 000 m2 building includes 92 ‘language labs’, 70 administrative rooms, 39 research and development rooms, 7 conference rooms, recreational spaces, a multimedia room that can accommodate 150 people as well as a library and reading areas, the project unites the universities’ linguistics departments into one location and brings a high level of transparency to the traditionally enclosed urban courtyard block, creating a green heart for the Powiśle riverbank district campus community.

Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory / Penoyre & Prasad

Paula Pintos — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

London-based architecture practice Penoyre & Prasad, a studio of Perkins&Will, has completed UCL’s unique research laboratory, PEARL. The research center’s goal is to improve the built environment and the way we interact with it. Life-sized environments – a railway station, high street, town square for example – will be built under controlled conditions to examine how people of all abilities interact with their urban environment and each other.

AGT Southern Crop Breeding Center / Ashley Halliday

Hana Abdel — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:00:00 +0000

The Australian Grain Technologies (AGT) Southern Crop Breeding Centre is a specialist primary industry research facility. It is one of the largest, most advanced, and well-equipped crop breeding centers in the world. A hotbed of technology, talent innovation, and scientific breakthroughs AGT's dedicated team use new mechanical solutions, robotics, computer science, GPS, tissue culture, and the latest biological theory on a daily basis. Excited by the process of seeing scientific concepts transformed into real solutions, the AGT Centre is more than a landmark, image, or icon, it is the product of dialogue between scientists, farmers, business people, and the regional community.