Devereux Architects and Allies & Morrison have been appointed to design a new £41 million clinical research facility for King’s College London (KCL) at Denmark Hill, South East London.
The KCNI site presents wider urban issues that Devereux Architects says the new building will also address; campus identity, entrances, principal pedestrian routes, adjacencies and relationships to existing facilities are all key design criteria.
The Devereux Architects/ Allies & Morrison team previously successfully partnered in designing a new clinical research building for the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Central London.
Devereux has also designed three other new-build research facilities and other projects for science, technology and healthcare at the Denmark Hill site. KCL is currently developing a master plan for the wider campus, which is shared with King’s College Hospital and Maudsley Hospital. The KCNI building location is an important component and will form the final addition to an existing research facility cluster on the campus’s western side. Core research will cover neurogenetics, epilepsy, neurodegeration, stroke and head injury.
The building will house specialist brain scanning equipment, research laboratories and a Bioinformatics Suite, together with write-up spaces, offices, and a 100-seat flexible seminar space.
