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Fosters lodges plans for huge Oxford cancer research campus bankrolled by US billionaire

By 2023-01-13T07:00:00

Fosters Ellison 3

Scheme to include a library housed inside a rotating geodesic dome and a 250m-long elevated walkway

Foster & Partners has submitted plans for a huge cancer research facility in Oxford bankrolled by American billionaire Lawrence J.Ellison, the world’s seventh richest person.

Proposals for a UK branch of the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (EITM), lodged with the local council in December, consist of a complex of buildings spread across two sites and linked by a 250m-long elevated timber walkway.

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