Education

Steven Holl to overhaul University College Dublin with design referencing Giant’s Causeway

August 8, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Steven Holl Architects has won a competition to revamp Ireland’s largest university, with a proposal featuring buildings that reference the geological forms of the Giant’s Causeway. The New York-based firm, led by architect Steven Holl, was selected ahead of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, John Ronan Architects, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Studio Libeskind and UNStudio to design

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Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site

August 7, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton’s parkland campus. Architecture studio Henley Halebrown designed the masterplan for the university’s campus, which is located in a southwest suburb bordered on one side by Richmond Park. Chadwick Hall, which is

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Buddhanimit Temple extension contains dormitory for novice monks

August 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A team of local architects has added new amenities to a temple school in rural Thailand, using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down. Architects Skarn Chaiyawat, Rina Shindo and Witee Wisuthumporn designed a dormitory for the school at Buddhanimit Temple, which is located near the city of Udon

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Niall McLaughlin Architects adds stone-clad auditorium to Oxford college campus

August 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. The multipurpose facility is the latest addition to the campus of Worcester College, which is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is one

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Herzog & de Meuron to overhaul Harvard GSD’s Gund Hall

July 26, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle have been enlisted to renovate and expand the main building at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, in order to support “groundbreaking collaborations” between its programmes. The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) revealed today, 26 July 2018, that Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron

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J Meejin Yoon to become first female dean of Cornell architecture school

July 25, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

New York’s Cornell University has appointed alumnus J Meejin Yoon as the head of its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. The Korean-American architect will become the college’s first female dean since it was founded in 1896. She will begin her five-year term at the school in Ithaca, New York, on 1 January 2019, succeeding

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Benni Allan gives his old school a facelift for just £1,000

July 25, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Benni Allan has used colourfully painted panels to create an all-new facade for his former school in Alicante, Spain, on a very meagre budget. The London-based Estudio B founder sourced corrugated bitumen panels and painted them in varying shades of red and pink, to create a new exterior for the 30-year-old prefabricated building where the

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Shipping container converted into porters’ lodge for Cambridge University college

July 20, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Cambridge University college Hughes Hall has a new reception building – a converted shipping container designed by local studio Neubau. Neubau designed the structure to function as a porters’ lodge for Hughes Hall, providing a reception for visitors, an office for porters and pigeonholes for students. Before now, it was the only college at the English

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Shipping container converted into porters’ lodge for Cambridge University college

July 20, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Cambridge University college Hughes Hall has a new reception building – a converted shipping container designed by local studio Neubau. Neubau designed the structure to function as a porters’ lodge for Hughes Hall, providing a reception for visitors, an office for porters and pigeonholes for students. Before now, it was the only college at the English

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Kaan Architecten’s Utopia combines music school and library

July 9, 2018 Anna Winston 0

Kaan Architecten has extended a 19th century school to create the Utopia building in Aalst, Belgium, which contains a music school and library. Utopia, the Library and Academy for Performing Arts, is named after the book by Thomas Moore, which was first printed in Aalst. Kaan Architecten won a competition to overhaul an existing block

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