The
McLaren Technology Centre is the
headquarters of the
McLaren Technology Group Ltd and all of its companies, located on a 500,000 m² site in
Woking,
Surrey,
England. The complex consists of four buildings two of which are open. The main building is the McLaren Technology Centre (Home of McLaren Group), The McLaren Production Centre (Home of McLaren Automotive), the McLaren-
GSK Centre for Applied Performance (Home of McLaren-GSK Parthership- due to open in late 2015) and the fourth building is the McLaren Centre for Applied Technologies (Home of McLaren Applied Technologies). The main headquarters 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
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, as well as other companies of the McLaren Group. It is also the main setting of
McLaren's new cartoon,
Tooned. In 2011, the size of the centre was doubled after a second building, the McLaren Production Centre, was built. This two storey building is used for manufacturing cars for
McLaren Automotive and also for some of McLaren Applied Technology's products. Two more buildings are planned for the site to complete the complex, the McLaren Applied Technology Centre and the McLaren-GSK Technology Centre. These will sit beside the semi circular McLaren Technology Centre headquarters and the McLaren Production Centre.