Stanton Williams has been appointed to work up proposals for 27,870sq m life-sciences building that will form part of the second phase of British Land’s Canada Water masterplan.

The practice – which won the Stirling Prize in 2012 for its Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge – has a brief to “consider the potential to accommodate a range of complex scientific requirements, within an uplifting and highly sustainable environment” for the project.

British Land and development partner AustralianSuper have also specified a scheme that “encourages interaction, maximises daylight and promotes wellbeing”.

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