The Home of Astrophysics in Oxford.
This is the Denys Wilkinson Building – the place from where I work every day (unless I’m working from college). It goes without saying that architecturally it’s strikingly different than all the other old buildings in Oxford – and indeed, many are those who frown upon the very existence of this “hideous” building in an otherwise picturesque medieval university town. Case in point, when I was taking this picture, an old man who happened to be walking by stopped and remarked, “Surely you’re not taking a picture of THAT building! It’s the worst building in Oxford!” I smiled and replied with a simple “Yes, I am.” Well, a different looking place, it surely is. But now that we’ve agreed on that, let’s say something about the building itself. Built in the 1960s, its original name was the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, but its name was changed in 2001 to honour British nuclear physicist Sir Denys Wilkinson. Today it hosts the Astrophysics and Particle Physics departments and is the place where I spend a lot of my time.