This year, McLaren is celebrating the anniversary of its innovative Technology Centre
The facility was created two decades ago under the supervision of renowned British architect, Lord Norman Foster, whose design brief for the building was to make it feel 90% Nasa, 10% Disney.
The site is now also the development, testing and production centre for all of McLaren’s high-performance supercars. Reflecting the ethos of the company that inhabits it, the building was ahead of its time in 2004 and is still brisling with innovative features.
The lake which surrounds the building contains over 30 million litres of water, whic is pumped through heat exchangers and help to cool the buildings as well as dissipate the heat produced by the wind tunnel.
More than 300,000 cubic meters of earth was removed when building MTC. All of the soil was redistributed around the site and relandscaped, forming a home to over 100,000 trees and shrubs across the 50-hectre site as well as over 14,000 individual plants in each of the company’s five car parks alone.
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