Biochemistry Building (University of Oxford)

The Biochemistry building opened in 2008 and below is an extract from www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/081212_1.html.

“The new £49 million, 12,000 sq m Biochemistry building at the University of Oxford designed by Hawkins\Brown architects is now complete. The distinctive facility with its glass facades and coloured glass fins brings together 300 lecturers, researchers and students previously based in a number of separate buildings across the University’s Science Area. Inside, a large open atrium with breakout spaces and specially commissioned artworks encourages collaboration between the researchers. The transparent glass exterior of the building makes the laboratories with biomedical researchers at work visible from the outside. Coloured glass fins all around the building cast changing patterns of light while solar cells on the roof provide a significant part of the building’s electricity.”

In my opinion no visit to Oxford is complete without visiting the University of Oxford Biochemistry Building. I have taken lots and lots and lots of shots here :-) The light and colours change many times during a day :-)