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22 JUNE 2010
Completion of main construction stage for Nightingale Associates and Make’s Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute marked by topping out ceremony.
A topping out ceremony carried out by the vice-chancellor of Oxford University marks the completion of the main stage of construction for the new Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute (OMPI) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.
The £23 million, 5,750sqm research facility was designed jointly by Nightingale Associates and Make Architects for the University of Oxford and will deliver much needed flexible laboratory spaces and new computer services to the University, providing state-of-the-art accommodation to attract the highest caliber of staff and students.
Adjoining the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, the contemporary new building replaces an existing block to the north-west of the Pevsner-listed, Dunn School. It has been sensitively designed to provide a calm and respectful counterpoint to the William-and-Mary style of the school. Responding to its historic neighbour, it will offer a modern interpretation of the external detailing such as the cornices and plinths while the horizontal expression on the facades, the windows and the materials have all been selected to echo the details of the original building.
Nightingale Associates and Make collaborated previously on the Old Road Campus Research Building for the University of Oxford which was completed in 2007 and acted as an exemplar for modern laboratory facilities, bringing together several different disciplines of cancer research and enabling them to interact and collaborate.
OMPI is due to be completed in early 2011. The topping out ceremony took place on 27th May 2010.