The Building - Communication through Architecture.

Efficient communication can have a solvent effect, weakening the old hierarchical structures and encouraging development and establishment of modern and effective scientific institutions. Rapidly advancing modern science demands flexibility and provision for novelty and charge. The idea was to provide a building on the highest level in technical and practical terms in laboratory design that also promotes synergy, cooperation and community. Thus, the institute's building has been carefully designed to force scientists to come together, to create the critical mass necessary for new discoveries. The world-class Finnish architects, Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen, were selected as principal architects together with the German architectural firm of HENN.

Take a tour through the fascinating building and get inspired by thoughts on the co-operation of architecture and science.

Watch a timelapse movie of the entire construction period of the MPI-CBG building and see how the institute grows and grows to become what it is now.