The Fleming Centre, St Mary’s Hospital
The Fleming Centre, St Mary’s Hospital
We are providing heritage advice to support Stanton Williams’ design for the Fleming Centre, a research and public engagement facility at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London.
The project will adapt and reuse Paddington’s historic canal-side industrial warehouses, known as The Bays. These former industrial warehouses, dating back to around 1850, were originally used for transport and distribution before being incorporated into the hospital in 1983.
The design prioritises sustainability, proposing features such as renewable energy systems, including a water-source heat pump and photovoltaic panels, alongside biodiverse landscaping and a low-carbon structure. Public engagement is central, with the ground floor designed as an open and welcoming extension of the public realm, offering views into laboratories and curated exhibition spaces.
The building seeks to break down disciplinary silos to encourage the exchange and interaction that underpins the creation of new ideas. Public engagement is central to the design, with the ground floor conceived as an open and welcoming extension of the public realm, offering views into laboratories and curated exhibition spaces to draw the public into the heart of the building and engage them with its activities.
The Fleming Centre is part of the wider Fleming Initiative, established jointly by Imperial College Healthcare and Imperial College London to find solutions to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at a global scale. The Centre will provide a space to bring together researchers, policymakers, clinicians, behavioral experts, commercial partners and the public to combine their shared networks, expertise and skills in the fight against AMR. It will also be part of a global network of centres in strategic locations around the world, aiming to catalyse worldwide action.
The Centre is intended to be integrated into a full redevelopment of St Mary’s Hospital which is included in the Government’s New Hospital Programme. The Centre is due to open on the 100 year anniversary of Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin at St Mary’s.
Client: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Architect: Stanton Williams