Best New Campus Development
Reef + Partners
Tribeca is London’s first and largest purpose-built life sciences campus, located in the heart of King’s Cross, delivered by Reef + Partners. Spanning four architecturally distinguished buildings and encompassing one million square feet of cutting-edge space, Tribeca is set to become a landmark destination for innovation, research, and collaboration. This visionary development features world-class laboratory spaces, vibrant cafes and restaurants, high-quality homes, canal-facing public realm, a new pedestrian footbridge, and a central public square — all designed to foster a thriving community. Situated in the core of London’s Knowledge Quarter, Tribeca is surrounded by a concentration of world-renowned institutions, including The Francis Crick Institute, the British Library, UCL, the Alan Turing Institute, and the Royal Veterinary College. It also sits alongside leading global tech and life sciences companies such as Merck, Google, Meta, and DeepMind, reinforcing its position as a hub of excellence and discovery.
Sheppard Robson
Set within the rural landscape of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, this new technology campus is shaped around TTP’s values of non-hierarchical, collaborative working.At the intersection of science, engineering and business, the campus is moulded to the ethos of TTP and its passion for invention. From the briefing process emerged an innovative approach to bring together labs and offices in totally new ways.The design evolved into three buildings, each addressing a specific part of the brief: the Exchange (a social place to decompress, relax, and collaborate), the Hive (a mix of office and labs), and the Tech Barn (for large-scale science projects).
McBains
The UKAEA STEP Offices Building delivers a catalytic scheme for the wider Culham Science Centre campus, prioritising staff and user wellness and supporting a modal shift towards a vehicle-free campus centre. The building’s design provides generous frontages to address key arterial routes through the campus, allowing good visibility, improved wayfinding and safe, segregated movements. ‘Green connectors’ corridors link through to the wider campus, and an entrance sequence through a landscaped plaza provides a sense of arrival and a destination with real civic presence, commensurate with the world leading research and development that UKAEA undertake.
Scott Brownrigg
The Daubeny Project provides three new headquarters buildings – office and laboratory facilities – totalling over 400K sq ft for leading science and technology companies at The Oxford Science Park. This project sets a new standard for life science’ campus developments, excelling in technical delivery, sustainability, and innovation. It has achieved outstanding client satisfaction, supply chain collaboration, and efficient project execution despite budget and delivery challenges. The incorporation of advanced systems provides adaptable, high-specification lab spaces that meet stringent environmental controls and operational efficiency, setting a new benchmark for laboratory and office integration with an exemplar 70/30 lab office split.
