completed by allford hall monaghan morris, the design also reorganizes the site, with lawns, squares and a central pedestrian spine. four 4-storey teaching pavilions, a sports hall and a performing arts building, are placed among a number of retained buildings, including two by sir leslie martin, to form a complete and coherent campus. the regularity of each plan is fol...
The ICTA-ICP building, located in the UAB Campus (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), is a research centre in environmental sciences and palaeontology. In accordance with the research fields of the building users, they chose, from the beginning, a building prepared to give an ambitious response to the challenges of sustainability.The building, an isolated volume of five...
Avenier Cornejo completed a crèche for 66 children in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The crèche is located in the new Fréquel Fontarabie district, where the public pathway meets the square. It is a unique building which adds to the identity of the neighbourhood. Being one of the first places that children discover outside their own family unit, a crèche needs to pro...
The distance between Beijing and Nandaihe is about three hours by car. The tourist resort at the beach is beginning to be developed as a reaction to the growing middle class’s demands for appropriate recreation facilities. While the natural conditions, which include golden sandy beaches, are wonderful, the need for entertainment requires new infrastructure. The new touri...
The Chipakata Children’s Academy is a new primary school in Zambia, Africa. It is the first initiative of the 14+ Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit organization established in 2012. The design for the new school has realized the Foundation’s mission to develop, build and operate schools and orphanages in rural African communities. The site in Chipakata Villag...
Located in Athens, Greece, in the northern suburb of Filothei, the kindergarten occupies an imposing Minoic-rhythm edifice surrounded by a beautiful English garden, designed during Greece's inter-war period by the acclaimed architect Nikolaos Zoumpoulidis. The unique anatomy of its morphological elements was carefully accentuated during the renovation, creating a dialogu...
PAN Architecture has delivered a modular extension to Marseille’s Architecture School. Keeping to the composition of the block plan, the existing system is extended, and a new “branch” has been created for horizontal growth. The building/outside traffic dialectic has thus been reinvested in. The project unites the three ground-level workshops in a simple, autonomous vol...
The Research Campus Waischenfeld is a retreat/think-tank for the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in the medieval village of Waischenfeld in northern Bavaria. In a concentrated and idyllic setting researchers are provided with laboratories, guestrooms, conference rooms, offices, a central event space/ cafeteria and outdoor terraces for research and devel...
The figure of the industrial hall, the long and aerial morphology of which explains its rational and intense use, is intimately linked with the Île de Nantes’ past. It inspired the form of the Nelson Mandela High School, the broad prow of which pays tribute to the district’s Atlantic horizon and reactivates the immemorial ties between boat builders and building builders...
The building designed by C. F. Møller Architects for the Technical Faculty – part of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense – is a big envelope consisting of five buildings connected by bridges at multiple levels crossing the heart of the complex, a “piece of furniture” containing common functions and meeting-rooms, and giving access to a roof garden, café an...
Designed by Opus Architekten, the zig-zag roofed building is met with mirrored windows that reflect the greenery of the area. The modern building creates space for 50 children in the daycare center, without disrupting the look of the wooded campus. The grounds of Philipps University have been in use since 1527, acting as a research center for psychiatric reform. As the ...
Its subsequent three year renovation sees the tower’s conversion into a public library adjoining the village square which has resulted in giving the building a new lease of life, transforming its despotic past into a very fitting, democratic future. The decaying, 12th-century castle was ''one of the most famous fortified buildings in Northern Italy’s Bergamo area'' acco...
The project aims to create a "harmonious union of the spiritual, artistic and natural worlds" and approach traditional Islamic architecture through the use of modern materials and contemporary forms. The building is located near the existing Aga Khan Museum, designed by Fumihiko Maki, and is surrounded by a seven-hectare park designed by landscape architect Vladimir D...
The 25,000-square-meter school will be built in the city’s Nordhavn district, and it will accommodate 1,200 students and 280 employees. CIS Nordhavn’s roof will be topped with 12,000 angled solar panels that will supply over half of the school’s annual electricity needs. Located on the water’s edge, CIS Nordhavn is sandwiched between the public waterfront and Copenhag...
The 30,000-square-meter building is the largest construction project ever completed by the Municipality of Aarhus. Designed to meet the Danish 2015 energy classification, Dokk1 was completed for a budget of over €280 million. Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the bid for the project after placing first in a 2009 design competition. The energy-efficient polygonal library is bu...
The LOSEV Natural Life Center & Drugless Therapy Institute will promote a sustainable lifestyle based on organic agriculture, permaculture and eco-friendly waste and compost management and teach visitors how to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. The Health and Education Foundation for Children with Leukaemia acquired the lot and decided to create an inspiring complex ...
The multifunctional space combines a classroom, a playroom, a dancing room, a music room. Each area is characterized by individually designed graphics. While the space appears strange and illogical at first, the mirror wall helps makes sense of the spatial boundaries and uses. The boundary between the magical reality and the reflected logical non-reality is a confirmatio...
Paris design firms MU Architecture and Archicop designed the timber-clad school with an organic shape that winds between trees in the French commune Briis-sous-Forges. Full-height glazing fills the green-roofed school with natural light and frames views of the surrounding woodland. Created to provide after-school and summer school facilities for young children, the sc...
Like much of the firm’s work, the structure is eco-friendly and optimizes natural ventilation and lighting to minimize energy use. Designed to meet Denmark’s 2015 low-energy class requirements, the building is enveloped in an eye-catching solar screen punctuated by circles of varying sizes. Set within a lush green landscape, the 21,000-square-meter university structur...
Spanish architect Miguel Ángel García-Pola Vallejo designed the project in order to provide new space for the school kitchen, dining hall, storage space and toilets in time for the new school year. The four modules of the 226-square-meter structure were fabricated a few kilometers from the campus and then transported on the back of a truck to the site, where they were...
These particular materials were chosen to reference the colors of the site's soil, pines and surrounding plant life. The perforated canopy shelters a sort of indoor street, which branches out towards the other buildings on campus and allows for horizontal growth of the new extension. The extension references the existing buildings and covered bridges on campus, design...
Set on the main street of Itaewon, one of the South Korean capital's most booming and international neighbourhoods, it aims to break the boundaries of the region's existing realm of musical culture. Conceived as a space for up-and-coming talent to practice and perform, it is also home to an extraordinary collection: over 10,000 vinyls and some 3,000 music-related books -...
Offering an uninterrupted, front-row view of the seashore's dramatic sky and ever-changing waters, the building was conceived as an exercise in harmonious coexistence between architecture and landscape. Through his work, Vector's lead architect, Gong Dong, aims to convey a series of complex relationships, negotiating the idea of boundary, the movement of the human body, ...
In need of an extreme makeover, the architectural practices Tectoniques and Adelfo Scaranello took on the challenge of renovating the school. The constraints of working on an occupied site meant that the phasing of the project was particularly complex. The project needed to be broken down into stages so as to not disrupt the pupils’ lessons while it was under construc...
The designer’s description To celebrate the 15 years of existence of Acadèmia Altimira, Laura and Mónica, sisters and owners of the academy, contacted Masquespacio with the idea to redesign their brand and space. The project that was commissioned during the summer of 2014 started with the redesign of Acadèmia Altimira’s brand clearly focused on their different target...
They needed material that was technically suitable and increased the project's aesthetic value. The initial specifications mentioned ACM (Aluminium Composite Material) but the team of architects exchanged it for ULMA polymer concrete after learning of the latter's technical characteristics, suitability for the project and aesthetic options as well as its versatility ...
The first action was to reconsider the current landscape, to bring a functionality to external installations thus conveying true space qualities and to create a total logic of circulation within the site. The constitution of this new urbanity becomes the base of a shared and porous space, generator of exchanges comparable with the strategic constitution of a campus. The ...
The former dormitory accommodation in the Grade 1 Listed building has been reconfigured and refurbished into a state-of-the-art modern working space whilst being sensitive to the historic fabric of the school. Pitman Tozer Architectsʼ design clarifies circulation through what had been a former conventʼs maze of corridors with small, low ceilinged dark rooms; opening ...
Working simultaneously as the architect, interior designer and general consultant to the project, Murman Architects sought to make the building more functional and attractive while improving the indoor climate, accessibility, security and fire protection. An important objective of the remodeling was to attract more life into the previously under-utilized building, so...
“Buchwert” The project consists of a two levels wooden building, which forms an 'ensemble' with two existing buildings; the school and the main municipal,'s administration building. On the first floor, we find an extension for the municipal's administration (social services), on the ground floor the library and the game library for kids. The first phase of the detailed ...
The powerful and accurate quality of the medieval walls, the integrity of the fortified structure, the central position in the village, give to this artifact the most complete sense of monument. The restoration project has dealt with different aspects that conditioned the conservation, the use and the valorisation of the building: the structural instability of the walls ...
The shift in a new age accessible education demands a shift in the tectonic in which buildings mirror contemporary university ideals of transparency and engagement. The challenge in extending these historic buildings is not to replicate but to find new ways to interpret their language while at the same time reflecting the University's more open pedagogy.
The plot on which the library had to be expanded was very limited in size and located in an urban environment. The existing library, alongside other public services, was located in a building that’s listed on the inventory of architectural heritage. The request of the client consisted of a complex set of requirements, along with the wish to make the library more visib...
Due to limited land area the owner of a local kindergarten decided to renovate his own family house transforming the original private nursery into a fully developed education institution. Clover House differentiates itself from traditional kindergartens by fully embracing its role as a shelter—a haven for education during the day and a home in the evening. The kinderg...
The centre has been housed at 68 Woodstock Road (the former rectory of the Church of St Philip and St James, built in 1887) since 1978. The Middle East Centre holds Oxford University’s primary collection on the modern Middle East, a world-class archive of private papers and historic photographs used by scholars and researchers with an interest in the region. The centr...
Inaugurated with the name of the famous Castilian writer Miguel Delibes, the new building is erected on 6,000 square meters in the Avenida Pablo Iglesias of Alcobendas, one of the youngest areas of the city. This results from the express will of the developer to create an open and dynamic centre so as to generate a singular volumetry. Rafael de La-Hoz proposes a build...
