The Tinbergen Building - South Parks Road, Oxford, UK

Architect	Sir Leslie Martin
Date Built	Designed in 1965 and completed in 1970
Location	South Parks Road at the corner of Saint Cross Road
Description
Named after Nickolas Tinbergen, a joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.  It is home to the departments of Zoology and Psychology.  The building is a combination of poured concrete and pre-cast sections.  It has a rectangular plan with canted staircase towers.  Typical of the period and other designs by Martin, the facade features concrete shuttering marks.

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