A new $125 million Biological Sciences building for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) by architecture practice Woods Bagot is currently underway at the university’s main campus in Randwick, Sydney.
The nine-storey building will have 16,900 square metres of floor space and will include an atrium. It will have the capacity to accommodate around 400 staff and PhD researchers and 200 undergraduate biomedical students, and the surrounding landscape will also be upgraded as part of the project.
The new building will include staff offices, specialized research equipment, flexible laboratory spaces, teaching facilities for biomedicine as well as stores and a workshop.
The ground floor will be dedicated to teaching, with the labs on display through floor-to-ceiling windows. The building’s upper floors will feature more laboratories as well as workplace spaces that enable engagement between students and researchers.
The new Biological Sciences building forms part of an expansion of UNSW’s biomedical precinct plan by Lahznimmo Architects and Wilson Architects, and has been designed to complement the nearby Lowy Cancer Research Centre (2010) and the Wallace Wurth Building (2014), both designed by Lahznimmo Architects and Wilson Architects.
The existing Biological Sciences building, which is adjacent to the new building, is also set to be refurbished under the plan to improve the university’s biomedical precinct. The construction of the new Biological Sciences building is expected to be completed by early 2017.