Designed to change the world: Inside Oxford University’s new £200m Life and Mind Building

By Thomas Lane2025-11-14T06:00:00

This research facility brings together experimental psychology and biology departments to address challenges including climate change, mental health, food security and AI. Thomas Lane reports

What do the 3XN-designed New Sydney Fish Market in Australia, Foster + Partners Techno International Airport outside Phnom Penh and NBBJ’s new Life and Mind Building in Oxford have in common? They were all named among the 11 architecture projects set to shape the world in 2025 by US news channel CNN.

The first is designed to give visitors a multi-sensory fish market experience, the second – one of South-east Asia’s largest airports – will put Cambodia firmly on the map and the third seeks to tackle major challenges of life and mind. The Life and Mind Building (LaMB) brings together the departments of experimental psychology and biology and will also house the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research.

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