McLaren Technology Centre

The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group and its subsidiaries, located on a 500,000 m² (50-hectare) site in Woking, Surrey, England. The complex consists of two buildings: the original McLaren Technology Centre, which acts as the main headquarters for the group, and the newer McLaren Production Centre, primarily used for manufacturing McLaren Automotive cars.
The main building is a large, roughly semi-circular, glass-walled building, designed by the architect Norman Foster and his company, Foster and Partners. The building was short-listed for the 2005 Stirling Prize, which was won by the Scottish Parliament building. About 1,000 people work at the Technology Centre. It is home to the McLaren Racing Formula One constructor and McLaren Automotive, the makers of the McLaren F1 and McLaren Senna, as well as other companies of the McLaren Group. It was also the main setting of McLaren's cartoon, Tooned.
In 2011, the size of the centre was doubled after a second building, the McLaren Production Centre, was built. McLaren are also planning an extension to this building to be used as an applied technology centre, and to house a new wind tunnel for McLaren Racing.
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