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Oriel
Designing for the future
In March 2024, the Oriel
donors. The showcase was an
team held a three-day public
opportunity for people to view
exhibition showcasing external
designs for the new centre,
and internal designs for the
feel tactile models and building
new centre at the education
materials, watch fly-through
hub, near the Moorfields City
animations of parts of the
Road site. More than 700
building and understand the
visitors attended including
centre’s world-leading role in
staff, patients, neighbours and
advancing eye health.
Image: Arcadis
The opening of the new centre is so exciting for patients. Aside from the excellent
facilities the new centre will offer all, it makes so much sense to have clinicians and
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology scientists working together under one roof.
I am confident that having a centre dedicated to research, education and care will
help to progress research and treatments further - not only in hypotony, but across
many other sight threatening conditions. I feel immensely lucky to be under the care
of Moorfields and so pleased this new centre will transform eye care treatment for
patients, not just at Moorfields but worldwide.
Nicki, Moorfields patient
What’s next and the opening
Construction of this 10-storey
In the years ahead, there will be
and educators with the
centre is now well underway.
events for the local community,
outstanding care and facilities
The building’s structure is
donors and other stakeholders.
to bring new and faster
expected to reach the highest
It’s an exciting time as the
treatments, creating a model
level by the end of 2024 with
centre for advancing eye health
for the NHS and the world.
focus shifting to the façade
is established in St Pancras,
We look forward to the
and fitting out of the building
Camden. It will provide
new centre opening its
from early 2025.
patients, researchers, clinicians
doors in 2027.
New centre for advancing eye health – timeline
Site preparation, enabling work and demolition
Construction on basement
Main building frame construction
Façade installation and roof works
Fit out and commissioning
External works
Building opening
2023
2024
2025
