lABS İN THE WORLD

1. Most Beautiful Science Labs in the World
Who said that laboratories, research centers 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.

2. Technical Area 3 of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which
is one of the largest multidisciplinary science and
technology institutions in the world.

3. The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne
National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Multiprogram
Research Facility (right), and the Visitor Center
(left), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

5. The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
(CINT), Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, New
Mexico

6. Technology & Engineering Development Facility,
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
located in Newport News, Virginia

7. The New Interdisciplinary Science Building
for Energy Research at Brookhaven Lab, in
Upton, New York

8. The Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the
headquarters for IBM Research, in Yorktown
Heights, New York

9. They conduct basic research in the fields of networks and
distributed systems, scientific computing, and software
engineering in the Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu,
Norway

10. The European Southern Observatory's
headquarters in Garching, Germany

11. i.lab, the new research and development
center for Italcementi in Bergamo, Italy

12. Beatson Institute for Cancer Research,
at University of Glasgow

13. Wilson Hall, the central laboratory building
of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
Batavia, Illinois

14. The Mechatronics Building in the Science
Park of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU)
Linz, Austria

15. 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.

16. Natural Science Engineering and Research Laboratory
(NSERL) at the University of Texas, Dallas. The overlapping
colorful anodized stainless steel shingles cover 15 percent
of the building's surface.

17. The Health Sciences Education Building at
University of Arizona in Phoenix was inspired by the
canyon formations found throughout the state.

18. The Medical Research Council Laboratory of
Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England

19. The Atlas Building of Wageningen University and
Research Center, is an environmental research
complex in Wageningen, the Netherlands

20. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Stata
Center is a home for computer, information, and
intelligence science, in Cambridge, MA

21. The Bharati Antarctic research station,
India's third Antarctic research facility

22. ALBA is a synchrotron radiation laboratory in
Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain

23. The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
(SSRF), Shanghai, People's Republic of China