Hopkins Architects has secured planning permission for a science and technology block at independent Haileybury School in Hertfordshire.

The project, which was won through a design competition, will offer experimental teaching and interactive space as well as a dedicated Stan-X laboratory run in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Hopkins said the project would “open up the rear” of Herbert Baker’s 1930s neo-classical science building at the school creating a new courtyard with cloisters, of which the new two-storey research block would form one side.

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