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BUILDING PROJECTS


FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LONDON


Transparently innovative


The Francis Crick Institute is a unique research hub, dedicated to discovering how diseases behave. Larry Malcic of HOK explains to Jack Wooler how the building’s ‘transparent’ design benefits the vital work of the facility


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massive state-of-the-art facility now sits behind St Pancras Station, inaugurated in 2007 to consolidate biomedical research in the UK and put it at the forefront of world science. Set up in response to the Cooksey


Report, which set out a vision for the future of medical research in the UK, the


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facility (originally entitled the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation) was funded by the Government with a build cost of £700m.


In the summer of 2011, when foundations were about to be laid, the project was given its current title of The Francis Crick Institute. Named after the


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