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OVA crowns school in Prague with rooftop play areas and vegetable gardens

January 11, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

Czech architecture studio Opočenský Valouch Architects has completed Vida Elementary School on the outskirts of Prague, topping its red-brick volumes with a terrace of teaching spaces, play areas and vegetable gardens. Located in the town of Chýně in Prague-West District, the three-storey building comprises an elementary school and a sports complex with indoor and outdoor

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OVA crowns school in Prague with rooftop play areas and vegetable gardens

January 11, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

Czech architecture studio Opočenský Valouch Architects has completed Vida Elementary School on the outskirts of Prague, topping its red-brick volumes with a terrace of teaching spaces, play areas and vegetable gardens. Located in the town of Chýně in Prague-West District, the three-storey building comprises an elementary school and a sports complex with indoor and outdoor

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Taiping Elementary School, Keelung / KHAA (Kuo+Huang and Associates)

January 9, 2026 Miwa Negoro 0

Perched on the hill of the west harbor, Taiping Elementary School bears witness to the rise and fall of the city of Keelung. It flourished in the 1960s, having been established to provide education for the children of dockworkers on the west wharf. Yet, with the transformation of industries, population outflow, and a declining birthrate, the school was closed in 2017.

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Ross Barney Architects exposes mechanical elements at Illinois technical school

January 9, 2026 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based practice Ross Barney Architects has highlighted ducts and machinery at an industrial-style community college building outside of Chicago, USA, to expose students to the very mechanical systems taught at the school. The Foglia Cen­ter for Advanced Tech­nol­o­gy and Inno­va­tion (CATI) at McHen­ry Coun­ty Col­lege (MCC) was designed for technical education in Crystal Lake, Illinois,

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Arabian knights influence interiors of Abu Dhabi riding school by David/Nicolas

January 7, 2026 Alyn Griffiths 0

Hand-carved reliefs and marquetry details elevate the custom joinery inside this equestrian academy in Abu Dhabi, where French-Lebanese duo David/Nicolas has designed a library and saddle workshop. Set across 65,000 square metres on Jubail Island, Abu Dhabi Royal Equestrian Arts (ADREA) is billed as the world’s first school of classical horsemanship outside of Europe, complete

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Parc des Loges – Childhood and Sports Center / HEMAA

December 2, 2025 Pilar Caballero 0

Founded in 2018 by Charles Hesters and Pierre Martin-Saint-Etienne, HEMAA is an architecture firm that embraces a contextual, sobriety-based approach rooted in the living world. Each project emerges from a careful reading of its surroundings, seeking a balance between nature, use, and material. In Evry-Courcouronnes (Greater Paris – France), the Parc des Loges Childhood and Sports Center fully embodies this philosophy: a gentle, landscape-based composition built from bio- and geo-sourced materials, serving a public facility that is open, generous, and sustainable.

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“A handsome, compact, efficient building” says commenter

November 28, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a school in Canterbury completed by Walters & Cohen with a material palette of flint, oak and limestone. Located alongside an entrance to Canterbury’s cathedral precincts, The Rausing Science Centre was designed to balance a traditional material palette with a “crisp and contemporary” approach. “What a thoughtful

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College Robert Badinter / Coldefy

November 28, 2025 Andreas Luco 0

French architecture studio Coldefy, in collaboration with Relief Architecture, has completed the 650-pupil Robert Badinter Secondary School, the first timber-framed school in northern France. The school is located on a former railyard site, adjacent to the city’s train station and a ten-minute walk from the town centre. The design and location of the new school is part of an urban renewal project that seeks to create a consolidated public transportation hub complemented by lively civic amenities. Located on the site of the city’s Vauban fortifications moat, the site also contained catiches – subterranean chalk quarries – which had to be filled in to stabilise the ground prior to construction.

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Walters & Cohen clads Canterbury school building with snapped flint

November 25, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Walters & Cohen has completed The Rausing Science Centre for a school in Canterbury, Kent, offering a contemporary take on the historic area’s material palette of flint, oak and limestone. The Rausing Science Centre provides six science classrooms and a 120-person lecture hall on the site of former Mitchinson’s Day House at The

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Walters & Cohen clads Canterbury school building with snapped flint

November 25, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Walters & Cohen has completed The Rausing Science Centre for a school in Canterbury, Kent, offering a contemporary take on the historic area’s material palette of flint, oak and limestone. The Rausing Science Centre provides six science classrooms and a 120-person lecture hall on the site of former Mitchinson’s Day House at The

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