The term "box", when used to describe a building, is rarely intended to be complimentary. Yet architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has created a cool, elegant, stylish, rectangular, orange building for which the term box is wholly appropriate. The building forms the second phase of the firm's 1996 competition-winning scheme for the Wellcome Wing extension to the Science Museum - an impressive addition to one of London's most important cultural quarters. Called the Wellcome Wolfson Building, this second phase is the result of the Science Museum and the British Association for the Advancement of Science getting together to create a national centre for scientific debate. These two partners were later joined by the European Dana Alliance for the Brain, an organisation of leading European brain scientists that exists to raise the public profile of brain research. The brainchild that finally spawned was the Dana Centre whose remit is to encourage scientific debate among the 18-35 audience through broadcast and web-based activities.
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