-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mumbai architect Charles Correa designs MIT neuroscience centre
IANS Monday, December 05, 2005 http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1000767 NEW YORK: Mumbai-based architect Charles Correa has designed what is the world's largest complex dedicated to neuroscience research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Boston, USA. The new facility, inaugurated last weekend, has state-of-the-art facilities and is built around a soaring five-storey atrium, include wet and dry labs for molecular, cognitive and systems neuroscience, the imaging center with fMRIs, classrooms, offices, seminar rooms and a large auditorium. The new 4.11 lakh square-foot complex is the latest building to open as part of MIT's extensive new building programme. It will house three primary occupants: the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, as well as the Athinoula A Martinos Imaging Center. The complex is designed to bring scientists from disparate backgrounds together, and to encourage chance encounters and conversations that may lead to new ideas. "Proximity and buildings matter a great deal in science" said Mriganka Sur, the Indian American head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. "We expect it will expand the imagination of our students and researchers by allowing them easy access to other ways and levels and scales of thinking. We believe Charles Correa's design, with its soaring spaces and light, will allow imaginations to soar as well." "Every place has its own soil, its own culture," said Correa at the inauguration. "And the culture of MIT is that of science; that is to say, the gravitas of science. This is the crucial territory that I knew this project must reclaim." Correa is a major figure in contemporary architecture. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at MIT. In private practice in Mumbai since 1958, his work covers a wide range, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati Ashram, to the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and the state assembly for Madhya Pradesh. (DNA - Evolutions - Mumbai) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas cheer - even when you're not here! Send Christmas Greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 2005 Christmas Package - Flowers, Bubbles and Layers of Love. http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/xmas/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------