We have submitted a major planning application for a proposed new building to replace the existing Darwin Tower at the University of Edinburgh's King's Buildings Campus for the School of Biological Sciences.

The development, tentatively named ‘New Darwin’, will deliver a building of a reduced height and more appropriate scale, akin to the adjacent buildings and landscape, offering significant visual and environmental improvement to the campus, city, and surrounding areas.

The design will create both a new "front door" and focal point for the school, and with physical linkages to the existing buildings, will transform this corner of the campus into a modern bioscience hub. This will foster a collaborative environment that will align with the University's vision for interdisciplinary biology and support the translation of ground-breaking discoveries and 21st-century solutions to address global challenges.