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Red curtains line facade of FADEU Building at Santiago architecture school

September 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Sunshades and screens line the exterior of a concrete-framed university building in Santiago, Chile, by architects Alberto Moletto and Sebastián Paredes that was envisioned as an “articulator of the campus”. The building houses the FADEU – which stands for Facultad Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, or the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. It

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Mould growing on Toyo Ito-designed “largest wooden building in Asia”

August 30, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Mould is growing on Gaia, a mass-timber business school in Singapore that was completed last year for the Nanyang Technological University by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Singapore-based studio RSP Architects. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) claimed the 43,500-square-metre school was “the largest wooden building in Asia” in terms of the volume of timber used when it

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Snøhetta tops reindeer herding school with sloping wooden roof

August 22, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Čoarvemátta education hub in Kautokeino, Norway, for the Sami High School and Reindeer Herding School as well as the Sami National Theatre Beaivváš. Designed in collaboration with local studio 70°N Arkitektur and artist Joar Nango, the structure by Snøhetta is composed of three interconnected wooden volumes that unite the

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Pelletier de Fontenay creates “permeable” boundary for Quebec school

August 21, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studios Pelletier de Fontenay and Leclerc Architects have created a Quebec primary school organised around an open courtyard to create a “permeable” boundary with nature. Located outside of Montreal in Shefford, École du Zénith is composed of a chain of five one-storey volumes or “pavilions” that wrap around a central open space recess

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Haller Gut Architekten adds “light and delicate” extension to Swiss school

August 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss studio Haller Gut Architekten has completed an extension to a school in Aeschi, providing classrooms with colourful accents and clad in thin planks of white wood. Haller Gut Architekten added additional teaching and administrative spaces to the school, which was originally spread across four detached buildings from different decades. Instead of creating a new,

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Underground schools “to create safe conditions” for children in Ukraine

August 16, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Construction is underway on ten underground schools in the Zaporizhzhia region in southeast Ukraine, designed to protect thousands of children against Russian air raids. Local authorities in Zaporizhzhia are creating bunkers to provide safe in-person learning facilities for children living through the war that was triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The goal is

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EFFEKT and MAST design floating platform for marine park in Denmark

August 13, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Sømærket is a proposal for a floating pavilion in Denmark, which local studios EFFEKT and MAST have designed to be towed between cities to “raise awareness about the underwater world”. The pyramidal structure will float on a barge and incorporate an underwater exhibition space for visitors to learn about the Nature Park Lillebælt – the

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Handel Architects completes “the largest Passive House building in Canada”

August 12, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A university building in Toronto by Handel Architects has received formal recognition as a Passive House project, making it “the largest Passive House building in Canada”. Harmony Commons is a dormitory building at the University of Toronto Scarborough that accommodates 746 first-year students and contains a dining hall and offices. Located in the northern area of

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NBBJ completes nature-infused California school for neurodiverse students

August 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Staggered volumes organised around a rounded courtyard form the net-zero Westmark Lower School, which was designed by architecture studio NBBJ to “reduce anxiety and stress” for students with learning differences. Located in the southern California town of Encino, the facility is part of the larger Westmark School, which serves children with learning challenges such as

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Sam Jacob gives “soft brutalist” University of Kent building a modern makeover

July 26, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Sam Jacob Studio has refurbished a 1960s building at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, using playful architectural references and bright colours to add layers of “wit and delight” to the existing interiors. The project provides teaching spaces for the university’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning, which is part of a

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