The UK’s professional body for physics has shared its plans to transform a former cocktail bar in Cally Road into a community learning hub.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) wants to extend its current HQ, which sits on the corner with Balfe Street, into a third floor extension on top of the two-storey Victorian building at 33 Caledonian Road.
It also wants to turn the the building it bought three years ago into a publicly available ‘makerspace’.
The Institute of Physics’ Caledonian Road HQ and the building next door at number 33 which it wants to renovate
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Since moving to Islington, the IOP has hosted a plethora of community events from a children’s science conference to family-friendly exhibitions, run homework clubs and invited students from City and Islington College to build a cosmic ray detector built on its roof.
Now the charity hopes…
