AstraZeneca Cambridge, UK
Client
AstraZeneca Key collaborators
Masterplanner: Herzog & De Meuron Architect; Hawkins Brown, Arup Key facts
5,100m2 Research & Biomedical campus 48no proposed trees and 120 planting species 25m green corridor Key services provided
Landscape architecture Planning Architecture Transport
Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer
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The landscape forms an integral part of the AstraZeneca global headquarters and creates a vibrant environment for collaborative work embedded in a globally recognised bioscience campus with world-class research facilities. The masterplan is an expansion to the Cambridgeshire Biomedical Campus located south of Cambridgeshire’s greenbelt. Arup was appointed to work collaboratively to deliver the AstraZeneca New Cambridge Site (NCS) and support its goal to be a ‘great place to work’. Arup’s landscape design responds sensitively to the local character and surroundings supporting NCS goal to promote biodiversity and health and wellbeing, providing opportunities for outdoor working, social interaction and links to the wider community through temporary multi-use games area. A key spatial element of the landscape strategy was the layering of green space both in function and form; comprising of dwell space, SuDs management and courtyards that combine to form a ‘green carpet’ connecting and adding value to the site.