I was in Virginia last week and heard on the local radio a program on Psychogeography. The host and Will Self walked from La Guardia Airport to Manhatten. Suburbia has many areas that are not intended to be walked to. Their isolation is intentional and the only mechanism of incorporating them into a wider social and communal environment is by road. So loaded with a big-ass rental car, I explored the newly developed area of Route 7.

That is Janelia Farm. It is part of a Biotech Research Campus which was given heavy tax-breaks by the local County for it to locate there.

The campus is nearly 700 acres and the Biotech building itself is in a hillside. You cannot see it from Route 7 nor can you see it from many of the access roads surrounding the campus. The only thing that gives it away is that there are small concrete cones rising up over the crest of the hill near the historic farm buildings.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has more pictures of the building and its architecture.

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