Imperial College London Molecular Sciences Research Hub Building, Architect, Photos
Imperial College London Molecular Sciences Research Hub
Exhibition Road Architecture: University Building, England – design by Aukett Swanke
13 Apr 2019
Imperial College London Molecular Sciences Research Hub Building
Exhibition Road
Design: Aukett Swanke, Architects
Imperial College London Molecular Sciences Research Hub Building

Images: Aukett Swanke
Aukett Swanke has completed the new Imperial College London Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) at the White City Campus in west London, which was launched on Friday morning. The building, won in a limited design competition in 2012, is the second building that Aukett Swanke have designed and completed on the campus, for which we also designed the north site masterplan in 2009.
The masterplan set out a new campus for Imperial as genuinely mixed-use quarter within the wider White City Opportunity Area. It created a range of academic and creative uses totalling 1.2m sqft, including research and technology transfer space, flexible teaching and conference space, postgraduate and private residential accommodation, and commercial office space.

The first phase of development, a 606 unit postgraduate student housing building, was completed in summer 2012 in time for the new academic year. Four linear wings, step up from north to south to transition between the scale of the adjacent residential area to the larger scale envisaged within the ...