Following international recognition of the quality of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service building, Scott Tallon Walker were shortlisted among only five European offices to participate in a competition to design the Pharmacopée in Strasbourg.
Architecture
The design which emerged, clearly expressed the three distinct types of space called up in the brief. Office/administration space, protected by a triple skin glazed facades (the pre-cursor of the McCann Fitzgerald façade) floated over a major concourse into which the public meeting room and assembly spaces were plugged.
Behind this the CGMP/GLP laboratories and the storage spaces formed a simple rectangle with air-handling and other plant fully integrated within the building envelope under a green roof.