McLaren Technology Centre
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Corporate and production headquarters for the McLaren Group, housing 1000 staff
Roughly semi-circular in plan, the McClaren Technology Centre includes design studios, laboratories, testing and production facilities. A formal lake completes the circular plan and forms an integral part of the building’s cooling system. The principal lakeside facade is a continuous curved glass wall shaded by a cantilevered roof.
Internally, the building is organised around double-height ‘streets’ forming circulation routes and articulating fingers of flexible accommodation. These house production and storage areas at the lower level, with top-lit design studios, offices and meeting rooms above.
A Visitor Centre is located in a separate building at the entrance to the complex. It houses educational facilities, a temporary exhibition space, auditorium and is linked to the main centre by a subterranean building.
Data
- Begun: 1999
- Completed: 2004
- Floor area: 63,000m2
- Sectors: Office, Industrial
- Total cost: £300M
- Tender date: 1998
- Address: Chertsey Road, Woking, GU21 4YH, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Foster + Partners
- Project architect: Norman Foster
- Client: McLaren Group
- Project manager: Arlington Securities
- Structural engineer: Arup
- Services engineer: Schmidt Reuter Partner
- Quantity surveyor: Davis Langdon
- Planning and Landscape: Terence O'Rourke
- Environmental engineer: WSP Development
- Lighting consultant: Claude Engle
- Services contractor: Amec
- Main contractor: Kier
