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We are told that the Dana Centre is a collaboration between the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) and The European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB) making it unrivalled in its expertise and depth of knowledge of scientific and technological fields. As a place, it offers the public all kinds of information access, debates and the like — all, as they say, in “a stylish, purpose-built venue, complete with a cafebar, appealing to adults” and events such as ‘punk science’. Architecturally, it would be pushing it to call MacCormac’s Wrightian-inclined flair ‘punk’, but it sings out an artfulness that is comparatively rare (and an interesting contrast to the Foster buildings next door at Imperial).
Also see this same practice’s work at Paternoster, in the City, and for the BBC in Portland Place, in the West End. Friendship House (p.242) is a good example of their residential work.