Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Building, Nottingham Science Park

 


The Building

Opened in 2022 and designed by CPMG Architects, the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Building is one of the newest buildings on the Science Park in Nottingham.

The hub space contains a prominently positioned café, meeting rooms and outdoor seating located on the pedestrian route between the science park and the nearby tram stop. The hub space is celebrated visually with a double height glazed curtain wall under a large cantilever of office space which serves as a protective canopy.

The façade is a rhythmic pattern of modules in a combination of full height glazed elements and high quality dark grey cladding panels with featured vertical seams, at car park level a complementary gold coloured open mesh screening system is used.

The Photograph

I'd arranged to meet a friend at the Science Park for a photo walk. It was a  dull and somewhat damp Sunday morning in December but flat diffused light works well for me as deep shadows and bright reflections can be very difficult to remove later.

This is one of the newest buildings on the Science Park and is very close to the tram stop, so I had time before my friend arrived to scope things out. The building is very bold and angular, and the cladding panels give a distinctive look I wanted to include in my final image.

I've chosen to use the glazed areas to counterbalance all of the dark cladding. 

This is a panoramic image taken with the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift on my Sony A7RII. Shooting with such a wide lens has allowed me to really emphasise the nearest corner of the building whilst keeping all of the verticals true.

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