The Beecroft Building viewed from Parks Road , Oxford
The Beecroft Building is one of the buildings forming part of the Department of Physics , University of Oxford in Oxford , England .[1]
The Beecroft Building is immediately in front of the Lindemann Building and close to the Clarendon Laboratory Townsend Building . It is located on Parks Road in the Science Area of Oxford University. It is next to the University Parks , immediately to the north.
The Beecroft Building was designed by Hawkins\Brown and completed in 2018.[2] Planet Partitional was also involved with the contract.[3] The budget was approximately £40 million.[1] [4]
The building was opened by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who studied Physics as an undergraduate at Oxford) on 17 September 2018,[1] in the presence of Professor Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford ), Lord Patten of Barnes (Chancellor of Oxford ), Professor John Wheater (Head of the Department of Physics) and Adrian Beecroft (part-funder of the building).[5]
The building is named after its part-funder Adrian Beecroft . The building is specifically focused on theoretical , condensed matter and quantum physics. According to The Daily Telegraph , the funding for this building was inspired by Beecroft's interest in astrophysics .[6] [7]
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51°45′35″N 1°15′28″W / 51.7598151°N 1.2577957°W / 51.7598151; -1.2577957