Michael Smith Building - Upper Brook Street, Manchester, UK

Architect	Sheppard Robson
Date Built	Completed 2008
Location	University of Manchester, Upper Brooks Street, Manchester
Description
The website of the British Society for Cell Biology says this of the Michael Smith Building, "In 2001, the University of Manchester was awarded 15M from the Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF) initiative. This grant, supplemented with more than 30M of University funds, was used to create a large facility for biological and biomedical research, the Michael Smith Building." "Named in honour of an alumnus of the University and Nobel Laureate, the research complex is sited at a central location in the University's biomedical corridor, adjacent to Medicine, Chemistry, the Manchester Incubator Building, the Core Technology Facility and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. The 10,000 m2 building is made up of four wings arranged around a central quadrangle, and provides research laboratories, core facilities, offices and meeting rooms for ~800 staff in up to 100 research groups. Scientists worked closely with the architects in order to provide a building that would encourage collaboration between research groups and facilitate access to a wide range of core equipment facilities" The project was valued at £45Million. Michael Smith was born in Blackpool in 1932 and he received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Manchester in 1956. That year he went on to do post-doctoral work at the University of British Columbia and he continued to work their until his death in 2000. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.