Education

Hawkins\Brown uses engineered wood to build swimming pool for City of London Freemen’s School

November 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Hawkins\Brown used two types of engineered timber to build this swimming facility at a school in Surrey, England. Located at the City of London Freemen’s School in Ashtead, the swimming pool building boasts an exposed timber frame that incorporates windows looking out onto the surrounding woodland. Hawkins\Brown chose materials and construction methods to complement the building’s natural

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Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography

November 14, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. The Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building is part of a 28-acre (11-hectare) medical and bioscience campus in the city’s urban core. Other new buildings on the campus include a cancer

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BIG designs kindergarten in New York City for WeWork

November 9, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. Announced this week, WeGrow will be a public elementary school for children ages three to nine. The news follows the opening of WeWork’s first gym in Downtown Manhattan earlier this

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BIG designs kindergarten in New York City for WeWork

November 9, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. Announced this week, WeGrow will be a public elementary school for children ages three to nine. The news follows the opening of WeWork’s first gym in Downtown Manhattan earlier this

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El Dorado and Modus Studio repurpose old warehouse for Arkansas art school

November 7, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A steel-framed building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been transformed into an educational facility with the addition of white cladding, tall linear windows and a second floor. The facility, which houses a range of spaces for students and faculty, is part of the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. The building is the first phase

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El Dorado and Modus Studio repurpose old warehouse for Arkansas art school

November 7, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A steel-framed building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been transformed into an educational facility with the addition of white cladding, tall linear windows and a second floor. The facility, which houses a range of spaces for students and faculty, is part of the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. The building is the first phase

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Herzog & de Meuron reveals design for new £108 million RCA campus

November 3, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Herzog & de Meuron has submitted a planning application for the new Royal College of Art campus in London’s Battersea, revealing a design that features textured brickwork and a sawtooth roof profile. The Swiss firm won a competition in late 2016 to design a new £108 million campus for London’s foremost art and design school. A

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Herzog & de Meuron reveals design for new £108 million RCA campus

November 3, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Herzog & de Meuron has submitted a planning application for the new Royal College of Art campus in London’s Battersea, revealing a design that features textured brickwork and a sawtooth roof profile. The Swiss firm won a competition in late 2016 to design a new £108 million campus for London’s foremost art and design school. A

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Herzog & de Meuron reveals design for new £108 million RCA campus

November 3, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Herzog & de Meuron has submitted a planning application for the new Royal College of Art campus in London’s Battersea, revealing a design that features textured brickwork and a sawtooth roof profile. The Swiss firm won a competition in late 2016 to design a new £108 million campus for London’s foremost art and design school. A

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Mirrored panels and stripy tiles cover walls of Spanish school by ABLM Arquitectos

November 1, 2017 Alice Finney 0

Spanish studio ABLM Arquitectos used mirrored panels to create an “almost invisible” upper floor for this school in the city of Salamanca, but the lower storey covered in stripes of brightly coloured tiling. The locally based architects designed the 2,600-square-metre building for a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city in north-west Spain, which is transforming into an

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