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Atlas – Eindhoven University of Technology / Team V Architecture

April 21, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Atlas, the renovated main building of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is an award winning, smart and sustainable university building, which has officially been opened on the 21st of March 2019. By combining state-of-the-art materials with optimal reuse, the robust Atlas building dating from the sixties is transformed into a light and energy efficient university building by Team V Architecture, Van Rossum, Valstar Simonis and Peutz. It is now one of the most sustainable education buildings in the world.

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Dancy House, Marlborough College / Allies and Morrison

April 20, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

In order to increase the proportion of female students at the school, Marlborough College has recently opened Dancy House, an additional boarding house for female boarders. The new building will provide bedrooms for 70 pupils, a range of communal, kitchen and dining spaces with associated facilities. The building sensitively responds to its setting in the picturesque grounds of the Old Bailey of Marlborough Castle.

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Résidence Palaiseau / 51N4E

April 14, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

This project takes place in the urban planning of the Plateau de Saclay, along the public spaces chain, defined by XDGA and MDP. Within a coherent architecture, it links together the metropolitan scale of the site and a more intimism and domestic scale related to the dwellings.

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Glasir Tórshavn College / BIG

April 8, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

Located on the undulating fjords of Faroe Islands, with views to the capital Tórshavn, the sea and verdant fells, Glasir seeks to harvest the efficiencies of combining Faroe Islands Gymnasium, Tórshavn Technical College and the Business College of Faroe Islands into one building for over 1,750 students, teachers, and staff.

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Escuela Bancaria y Comercial Guadalajara / Ignacio Urquiza, Bernardo Quinzaños, Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica + Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez + Camilo Moreno

April 5, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

A college campus is defined by its outdoor association as an integral part of the city. In this case, the project occupies the first four floors of a corporate building, creating the challenge of integrating the campus into the existing structure in a way that endows it with the characteristics of an outdoor campus.

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Teaching and Learning Building / Make Architects

March 30, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

New Make building indicates step change in building design for the University of Nottingham

The new 6,200m2 Teaching and Learning Building (TLB) was designed for the University of Nottingham by Make Architects to help meet its 2020 vision, raise its international profile and provide a step change in the way education is delivered by creating an flexible space that deliberately blurs the boundaries between study, socialising and work.

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University of Northampton Learning Hub / MCW Architects

March 29, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The opportunity of a new campus was the enabler that allowed the University to think radically and innovatively about space – its use, arrangement, flexibility, efficiency, quantum – and to put the learner at the heart of the design. The opportunity has delivered a brief and design based on the typology of space, rather than any notion of departmental structures, breaking down the ‘silos’ and boundaries that are typical in many HE institutions.