National Space Centre National Space Centre The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester. It is located on the north side the city of Leicester, England, next to the River Soar. Many of the exhibits, including upright rockets, are housed in a tower with minimal steel supports and a semi-transparent cladding of ETFE 'pillows' which has become one of Leicester's most recognisable landmarks. The building was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, and it opened to the public on 30 June 2001.
St. Joseph's Home for the Aged of the Founding Directors of Chinese Chamber of Commerce (). In 1926, the site was sold to the Little Sisters of the Poor, a French-based charitable body and Roman Catholic order for women. Architect firm, Crédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient, was in charge of the development of St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in the 1930s. During the 1930s, St. Joseph's Home for the Aged served as a refuge for those who fled from the Japanese invasion in China. Despite the proposal of a grade 2 classification, the entire site, villa, gate house, and dormitory A all kept their classification as grade