Grimshaw's Creative Concept and Approach to the Design

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Facility Design

The Danforth Center was designed and developed 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.