McLAREN HQ

McLaren, known for incredible luxury cars, creator of fast beasts and for its long pedigree in race cars, but it was not always like that, as all the great ambition the McLaren group had modest beginnings.

If you were to ask any motorsport fan where paradise on earth is, they would surely tell you in Woking, England, the home of the Technology Centre of McLaren.

Few construction projects generate as much intrigue and excitement as the McLaren Technology Centre. To discover all the secrets of this facility, we went straight to the minds that designed this peculiar building, the architects and engineers of Foster and Partners.

Between these two, they managed to work together to not only make a building, but their goal was to create a building that was eternal, and they worked together with Ron Dennis and McLaren engineers to face various challenges and achieve what, in Ron’s words, he informally referred to as 90% nasa and 10% Disney.

“We wanted to create a timeless building, working closely with the customer to meet their demanding needs and demonstrate McLaren’s engineering excellence. Ron Dennis informally referred to the writing as “90% NASA and 10% Disney.” -Iwan Jones from Foster + Partners-

Although it is not just a building, here works a great team of people, from different categories in which the McLaren brand competes in motorsport, of course, the largest group and with the greatest responsibility would be the group of Formula 1.

Read the full article in our 20|August 2021 ❙❘