Site area : 9,542.63m2 Building area : 2,510.45m2 Total floor area : 6,592.50m2 Building structures and sizes : ・Administration building Reinforced concrete structure, 2 stories, partial basement (Building area : 1,097.01m2, total floor area : 1,952.44m2) Basement (81.84m2) Air conditioning room 1st floor (868.44m2) Conference room, lecture hall, Director's office, administration office, reception room, entrance hall. 2nd floor (1,002.16m2) Library, department head offices, scientists' rooms, meeting room. ・Research building Reinforced concrete structure, partial steel structure, 4 stories (Building area : 1,378.23m2, total floor area : 4,604.85m2) 1st floor (1,341.65m2) Physiology laboratory, machine room, animal laboratories. 2nd floor (1,344.44m2) Chemical laboratories, constant-temperature laboratory, cold room, culture room, centrifuge room, instrument room, physiology laboratory, washing room. 3rd floor (1,344.44m2) Chemical laboratory, cold room, counting room, electrophoresis room, culture room, animal laboratory, recombinant DNA laboratory, RI laboratory. 4th floor (574.32m2) Machine room for air conditioners. 6-2-4, Furuedai, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0874, Japan TEL: 06-6872-4812 (key number) FAX: 06-6872-4818 http://www.obi.or.jp Osaka Bioscience Institute was designed by Kenzo Tange, an outstanding architect, to realize the concept of establishing a global research center. The Institute is ideally located in a comfortable environment, in the city of Suita, close to the city of Osaka. In harmony with the surrounding environment, the Institute is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and sophisticated equipments. In terms of personal and information exchanges, the Institute's location is excellent in that it is near Osaka University, Kyoto University, and other internationally leading research centers for molecular biology. The Institute has two buildings, one for research and another for administrative affairs. Having two wings separated by a 75-meter corridor on the 2nd and 3rd floors, the research building comprises department offices and laboratories, arranged in the north wing, and a constant-temperature room, cold rooms, DNA laboratories (recombinant DNA laboratories), RI laboratories, cell culture rooms, etc., for use in common by the departments, arranged in the south wing. These rooms and laboratories are equipped with the world's most sophisticated instrumentation, including image analyzers, laser confocal microscopes, genetic analyzers, and bio-image analyzers. The administration building consisting of General Affairs Department also houses a library, a conference room, a reception room, and a lecture hall.