Our Building

The Danforth Center was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners of London, England, and Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum of St. Louis. The innovative, state-of-the-art building provides outstanding research and training facilities, as well as a library, a lecture auditorium with video-conferencing capabilities, compartmentalized greenhouses, and environmentally-controlled growth chambers and growth rooms.

Key facts:

• Gross Square Footage: 169,250 square feet
• Laboratory Space: 16+ Suites; over 53,500 square feet total, including lab support
• Greenhouse Complex: 28 Greenhouses; 29,100 square feet total
• Plant Growth Chambers & Growth Rooms: 33 Individual Growth Chambers & 20 Custom-Designed Growth Rooms
• Core Support Facilities: Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Integrated Microscopy, X-Ray Crystallography, Plant Tissue Culture & Transformation
• Auditorium Complex: 3,700 square feet, with 302 Stadium-Style Seats, State-of-the-Art Audio, Video, Internet and Teleconferencing Capabilities

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