Linnaeusborg

Seen from above, it looks as though a green bolt of lightning is rising from the lawn. This uniquely designed building houses the University of Groningen’s Centre for Life Sciences. This is also where the building gets its name; it is named after the Swedish physician, botanist, zoologist and geologist Carl Linnaeus. The building’s green roofs alone show that sustainability is a priority here. This principle has been incorporated not only into the roofs but in many other areas too; for instance, the building is connected to a thermal energy storage system. Students study in the building, but there is also plenty of space for research. The most famous researcher working here is undoubtedly Ben Feringa, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016. If you’d like to view the building from a unique angle, you can walk or cycle underneath the section that’s raised slightly off the ground.