The University will start prequalification next month for a contractor to deliver the Daniel Libeskind-designed cosmology research building.

Durham has just received two major donations totalling nearly £5m towards the new centre, which will be located next to the Physics department on South Road

The Ogden Centre houses integrated research into the fundamental properties of the universe from the smallest scales of elementary particles to the largest scales of the universe as a whole.

The new building has been made necessary by the Centre’s rapid growth and academic success, and will enable it to maintain its leading global position in the decades ahead.