Foster developed a new campus master plan for this British university in the early 1990s, and since then has been engaged in the design of individual educational buildings; these include the award-winning Business School building (2000-2004).
Now we are talking about a building next to it, in the southeastern part of the college territory. Before the beginning of the current reconstruction, most of its ensemble consisted of buildings of the 1960-1970s, which appeared on the site of the neo-Gothic complex of the Imperial Institute, which was demolished in the middle of the last century (now only the Queen's Tower remained from it, inherited by the Imperial College).
To make room for another Foster building, plans are to demolish a 1970s building. In its place will be a 7-storey building with laboratories, lecture halls and conference rooms. It will be a corner building, visually marking the boundary of the college-occupied quarter. Its facades will be made up of alternating strips of metal and glass panels at an angle to each other and to the ground.
