Who says laboratories, research centers and other scientific institutions must be boring places? Believe me, when designing the headquarters of these buildings, the architects are doing their best. The following 22 pictures prove me right.

 

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Los Alamos National Laboratory Technology Zone is one of the largest multidisciplinary scientific and technological institutions in the world.

Photo taken by LANL

 

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Argonne National Advanced Photon Source laboratory in Argonne, Illinois

Photo taken by: John Hill, tigerhill studio / Argonne National Laboratory

 

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee national multifunctional Research Laboratory (right) and Visitor Center (left)

Photo taken by: ORNL

 

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Comprehensive nanotechnology center of Sandia laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico (cint)

Photo taken by Randy Montoya / Sandia Labs

 

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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Technology and engineering development laboratory in Newport News, Virginia

Photo taken by Jefferson Lab

 

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Interdisciplinary science building for new energy research at Brookhaven laboratory in Upton, New York

Photo taken by: BNL

 

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Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM research headquarters, located in the highlands of York Town, New York.

Photo taken by Simon Greig

 

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They conducted basic research in the fields of network and distributed systems, scientific computing and software engineering at simura research laboratory in Norway

Photo taken by: Peter

 

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The European Southern Observatory is headquartered in Garching, Germany

Photo taken by: E. Graf / ESO

 

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New R & D center in Bergamo, Italy - i.lab

Photo taken by: Italcementi

 

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Beatson Cancer Institute, University of Glasgow

Photo taken by: the gist

 

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Wilson hall, central laboratory building of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Photo taken by: reidar Hahn / Fermilab

 

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Mechatronics building of Johannes Kepler University (jku) Science Park in Linz, Austria

Photo taken by: jku

 

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University of Texas Science Learning Center, Dallas. The tile appearance represents two scientific models: atomic emission spectroscopy of gases and human DNA.

Photo taken by engineer datum gojer

 

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University of Texas Science Learning Center, Dallas. The tile appearance represents two scientific models: atomic emission spectroscopy of gases and human DNA.

Photo taken by engineer datum gojer

 

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The design of the University of Arizona Health Science Education Building in Phoenix is inspired by the canyon shape all over the state.

Photo taken by: University of Arizona

 

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Laboratory of Medical Research Council for molecular biology, Cambridge, UK

Photo taken by: mrc-lmb

 

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The atlas building of Wageningen University and research center is an environmental research center in Wageningen, the Netherlands

Photo taken by: Rico

 

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The Stata center at MIT is the Institute of computer, information and Information Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Photo taken by: bijoyayehu tasfayei / AP

 

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Bharati Antarctic research station, the third Antarctic research facility in India

Photo: COMNAP

 

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Alba is the synchrotron radiation laboratory in Catalonia, Spain

Photo taken by Alba cells

 

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Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRF)

Photo taken by: SSRF