Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Jodrell Laboratory
This extension to the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew brings together a number of related scientific specialisms, enabling it to develop a mycology programme capitalising on one of the world's largest fungi collections. An existing laboratory was extended to create a new three-sided courtyard space with the School of Horticulture building to the south, giving a collegiate feel to the complex, now focused around the Aquatic Garden. The extension provides 2000sqm of accommodation including mycology herbarium storage, a library, laboratories and office space. The existing building has been further extended by infilling the colonnade of an earlier extension. The redevelopment provides a new face to the laboratory, turning the building around to establish a stronger relationship between the gardens and the scientific activity within.
- Date:
- Completed 2006
- Location:
- London, UK
- Client:
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Value:
- £6 million
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- Link:
- www.kew.org