Ecuadorian studio Al Borde Arquitectos has completed a compact laboratory in the Amazon using vaulted adobe construction for local community research to "break external chemical dependency". More about Al Borde Arquitectos uses adobe for "biosecure" laboratory in Ecuador
Wood is paired with mirrored panels on the exterior of a research building for biotech company Adimab, which was designed by Sylvia Richards Practice for Architecture to blend with its forested setting and preserve a wetland. More about Sylvia Richards combines timber with mirrors for "supernatural" effect in New Hampshire
Architecture studio Payette has completed an urban building at Northeastern University called EXP, which features a rooftop garden and facades wrapped in a "solar veil" made of metal strips. More about Payette wraps Boston academic building in ribbons of stainless steel
This video produced by Jim Stephenson spotlights the University of Aberdeen Science and Teaching Hub by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. More about Reiach and Hall Architects renews "dated" science facilities at the University of Aberdeen
Designer Neri Oxman has unveiled a studio in Midtown Manhattan designed with architecture studio Foster + Partners that houses a production workshop and wet lab. More about Neri Oxman launches New York practice in Foster + Partners-designed studio
US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland, USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. More about Ross Barney Architects encloses NASA testing facility in unique copper-concrete panels
International architecture studio NBBJ has proposed a conceptual design for lab buildings that features a modular interior layout as one solution to underutilized infrastructure in cities. More about NBBJ releases concept for modular mass-timber lab building
Light-filled spaces, neutral-toned furniture and a sculptural spiral staircase bring a hospitality feeling to this life sciences building in Chicago, designed by architecture studio Gensler and developer Sterling Bay. More about Gensler and Sterling Bay design Chicago laboratory to resemble a hotel
Bands of local stone wrap the Youngmeyer Field Station, which was designed and built by Kansas studio Hutton to integrate with the natural topography and operate off the grid. More about Hutton embeds off-grid research station into hills of rural Kansas
Sunflowers, salt and algae are among the biomaterials used to complete Le Magasin Électrique, the workspace of circular-design lab Atelier Luma that it self-designed with studios Assemble and BC Architects & Studies. More about Salt and sunflowers used to create Atelier Luma's experimental workspace
Architecture studios Grimshaw and Architekton looked to natural elements such as rocks and saguaro cacti while designing the Walton Center of Planetary Health at Arizona State University. More about Geodes inform design of Arizona research building by Grimshaw and Architekton
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts. More about MVRDV designs demountable office building as "source to harvest materials from"
Next in our Timber Revolution series, we profile a university laboratory by Austrian studio Nussmüller Architekten that was conceived as both an advert and a testing centre for the capabilities of mass timber. More about BTZ laboratory at TU Graz was the early home of mass-timber research
American studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. More about ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility
British architecture studio Foster + Partners has created a stacked glass building with a cantilevered roof for the headquarters of Ferring Pharmaceuticals in Denmark. More about Stacked volumes form Ferring Pharmaceuticals HQ by Foster + Partners
The visual language of scientific laboratories informed the look of this blue-lit concept store in Monaco, which London firm Universal Design Studio has devised for skincare brand Biotherm. More about Universal Design Studio models Biotherm's Monaco concept store on a laboratory
Perforated metal fins cover the facade of this new visitor centre designed by Levitt Bernstein and TKMT Architects for the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) science facility in Grenoble, France. More about Levitt Bernstein and TKMT cover Neutron Research Centre in perforated metal fins
Architecture studio Penoyre & Prasad has completed a huge Corten steel-clad research laboratory for UCL which will be used to simulate life-sized urban environments such as railway stations, high streets and town squares. More about Penoyre & Prasad completes "first-of-its-kind" giant research lab for testing urban environments
CLOU Architects referenced traditional straw-roofed houses when designing the gridded wooden canopy that tops this agricultural education centre in Sanya on Hainan Island. More about Wooden grid encloses indoor and outdoor spaces at Sanya Farm Lab by CLOU Architects
Decorative aluminium screens designed to evoke neurons surround the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, completed by architecture studio Foster + Partners in Jerusalem, Israel. More about Foster + Partners wraps aluminium screens around university laboratory in Jerusalem