Education

Alberto Campo Baeza’s Madrid sports centre is a “box of light”

August 5, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Two enormous translucent walls flood the playing court of this bright white sports centre by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza with dazzling light. Located on the Francisco de Vitoria University campus in Pozuelo, Madrid, the sports complex comprises two clean, white boxes joined together by a low-rise building whose roof becomes an interconnecting patio at the first floor level.

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Reiulf Ramstad’s kiln-inspired learning centre will celebrate Denmark’s farming culture

August 3, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark’s Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. Called Kornets Hus – translating from Danish as Grain House – the new timber-framed learning centre will be completed this year in the town of Hjørring, on a patch of

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Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings

July 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. The CTLES (Technical Centre for Books of Higher Education) is a national public administrative institution located in the Parisian suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges, around 25 kilometres east of the city

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Portakabin builds temporary school for pupils of academy next to Grenfell Tower

July 21, 2017 Ali Morris 0

A temporary secondary school is being built to accommodate students of Kensington Aldridge Academy, a school next to Grenfell Tower, which has been shut ever since the devastating fire last month. UK company Portakabin is using its modular construction system to build the school just over a mile away, next to Wormwood Scrubs – an open space in the London Borough of

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Low-cost school for 3,000 children planned at Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

July 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A huge school for Syrian refugees is set to be built at a camp in Jordan, using a modular and re-deployable construction system developed with the help of former Architecture for Humanity director Cameron Sinclair. Italian non-profit organisation Building Peace Foundation is behind the construction of the new building, which will be the 10th facility it has completed at the Za’atari

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Low-cost school for 3,000 children planned at Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

July 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A huge school for Syrian refugees is set to be built at a camp in Jordan, using a modular and re-deployable construction system developed with the help of former Architecture for Humanity director Cameron Sinclair. Italian non-profit organisation Building Peace Foundation is behind the construction of the new building, which will be the 10th facility it has completed at the Za’atari

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Renzo Piano designs top-heavy arts centre for Columbia University

July 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has cantilevered the gallery and performance spaces at the top of this off-white arts school, which was designed for Columbia University’s new campus in Upper Manhattan. The Lensvelt Center for the Arts is the second building to be completed in the university’s new Manhattanville campus, a few blocks north of its historic home in Morningside Heights,

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Haverstock extends school on London’s modernist Alexandra Road Estate

June 15, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

British architecture studio Haverstock has added new facilities to a school on the historic Alexandra Road Estate in London’s Camden, built by architect Neave Brown in the 1970s. The Camden-based studio added new therapy rooms and short-stay accommodation for up to 50 young people with autism and learning difficulties to the Jack Taylor School, which first opened in 1978 at

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Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide

June 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for “London’s greenest public building”, a school that would be entirely powered using the tidal movements of the River Thames. The conceptual plans for the Thames Tidal Powered School involve a building that juts out over London’s principle waterway. A series of large turbines positioned underneath would then allow

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Big-top tents inform building for America’s first circus degree programme

May 16, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Traditional, round circus tents influenced the design of this performance and educational facility for the circus arts, designed by US studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture. Intended to be built in Portland, Maine, the Circus Conservatory building will house America’s first accredited degree programme in circus arts. The facility will be the main tenant on a peninsula slated for

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