THE BEST IN SCIENCE, OFFICE AND BUSINESS PARK DESIGN is a selective catalogue of a fast-growing postwar phenomenon, the 'Business Park'
At first glance, the term Business Park appears contradictory. Business is associated with commerce, financial transactions, concentrated effort and urban life; a park, on the other hand, is devoted to leisure, pleasure, sport and the enjoyment of nature. Yet major developers in the UK, USA and, increasingly, Europe, are turning their attention to and investing their skills and resources in the development of the Business Park, where work and recreation are integrated in well-crafted buildings set in a man-made landscape. THE BEST IN SCIENCE, OFFICE AND BUSINESS PARK DESIGN offers a definition of the Business Park, and catalogues the key categories. A Business Park may be single cell, dedicated to one client, or multicell, subsuming different clients and architecture within an overall Master Plan. It may be devoted to one theme, such as scientific research, as in a Science Park; it may be an administrative 'village', as an Office Park; or it may be flexible, combining speculative business building with a shared amenity building for a disparate workforce.
Introduced by a short essay documenting the criteria for the creation of a successful Business Park, THE BEST IN SCIENCE, OFFICE AND BUSINESS PARK DESIGN describes the development of the Business Park in generational terms. Four generations are identified, from the simple 'dumb sheds in a landscape' of the early sites to the complex new villages of the fourth generation, where business, pleasure, education, residential housing and workforce amenities come together on one campus. A fifth chapter explores the application of the business park idea to other areas where a main theme needs to be supported by a complex infrastructure, such as the art park at Hiroshima or the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris.
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