Linde + Robinson Laboratory
In 2008, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena began transforming the Henry M. Robinson Laboratory of Astrophysics building into the Linde + Robinson Laboratory to house the new Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science. Built in 1932, Robinson Laboratory, which housed Caltech’s astronomers and astrophysicists for nearly eighty years, was designed by Russell Porter in collaboration with the firm of Mayers Murray & Phillip (formerly Goodhue Associates). They collaborated with Russell W. Porter, noted designer of telescopes and observatories in the early twentieth century. An elegant, monumental structure, the laboratory building uniquely blends elements of the Spanish Colonial Revival style with celestial and solar motifs, down to original light fixtures depicting starbursts and signs of the zodiac.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare
