Hassell’s winning proposal for the Shanghai Biological and Pharmaceutical Campus will support the world’s best pharmaceutical companies to meet global health challenges by creating workplaces that promote cutting-edge research, development and operations. Scientists, students, organisations and institutions from a broad range of fields will more easily come together to share ideas and cross-institutional activities. The design scheme is flexible to allow for single-floor tenants, whole-of-building tenants, or conjoined buildings for even larger organisations, adaptable over time and as the needs of the campus and global research change. Individual floors can also be subdivided into smaller labs, start-up and co-working spaces. The scheme includes mechanisms such as on-floor card entry into all the labs and research areas. The canopy’s open learning environments, auditoria, conference facilities, retail stores, gym, cafes, bars and restaurants will support all kinds of connections — from sharing ideas and research thinking to a few drinks or a meal at the end of a day.