20 COMPLETED PROJECTS
KATHLEEN LONSDALE BUILDING
AN INSPIRING CENTRE OF LEARNING AND RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES
The refurbishment gives UCL Earth Sciences a modern facility where academics and students study everything from the origin of the earth to the history of the life it sustains.
MODERNISING A HERITAGE BUILDING
The Kathleen Lonsdale Building was constructed in 1915 as UCL’s first purpose-built chemistry building and is named after the scientist, Quaker and pacifist who conducted ground-breaking crystallography research at the university. To create a world-class facility that could house the entire Earth Sciences department, we carried out a major refurbishment – reinstating some historic features while improving the layout to create modern teaching, research and social spaces. Students now learn in labs filled with the latest scientific equipment. And because the entire department is in one building there’s an increased opportunity for interdisciplinary research, covering areas including earth sciences, maths, chemistry, biology, physics and astrophysics. The building also showcases the work done there, with a Rock Room housing the department’s collection of rocks, minerals and fossils, and an impressive dinosaur skeleton in the entrance symbolising how life and earth have co-evolved.
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