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Nature 457, 541 (29 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457541a; Published online 28 January 2009
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The art of laboratory design
Georgina Ferry1
Abstract
Can visual arts stimulate creativity in the science laboratory? A new biochemistry building for the University of Oxford might provide the answer, finds Georgina Ferry.
"The lab is a major building type, yet we have come to expect little of it," lamented art historian Martin Kemp in this journal more than a decade ago (see Nature 395, 849; 1998). The new biochemistry laboratory that opened at the University of Oxford, UK, in December 2008 refutes Kemp's charge that such buildings are graceless and functional.
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