 |
| Address |
Padualaan 12 (postal address: Padualaan
8)
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| Architect |
Ben van Berkel (UN-Studio - Van Berkel
& Bos)
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| Year |
1999 - 2001
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| Use |
The building was built as a research
facilty for high resolution NMR spectroscopy.
|
| Awards |
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| Relevant websites |
• http://www.unstudio.com
• Architectuur.org |
| Opened |
Oct. 2001
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| Sq. metrage |
| 2,050 m2, volume 10,000 m3 |
| Cost |
| 26.5 million € |
| Contractors |
Nelissen van Egteren
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| Landscape designer |
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| General information |
The Bloembergen
building is a small pavillion-like building in which there
is room for 8 NMR installations. The technique of NMR spectroscopy
at molecular level has inspired the architect to shape the
material. The NMR equipment with the magnetic fields can
be found at the heart of the building, all other functions
are folded around the nucleus. For efficiency reasons there
are no columns.
 © UN
Studio
The Utrecht NMR facility makes
its advanced NMR infrastructure and specialist expertise
available to Dutch guest researchers. |
| The name of the building |
Nicolaas Bloembergen (Mar. 11 1920 )
studied physics at Utrecht Uiniversity from 1938 - 1943.
PhD at Leiden University. After the Second World War he left
for Harvard where he founded the theory of NMR relaxation
together with Purcell and Pound. In 1981 he was awarded the
shared Nobel
Prize for Physics for his
contributions to the development of the laser (together with
Schawlow and Siegbahn). Stayed at Harvard until his retirement
in 1990.
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