What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? Following an international design competition JWA and NADAAA in collaboration were appointed as architects to design the new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning building for the University of Melbourne. The original faculty building had occupied the same site since the early 1960s and...
What looks like a low-slung industrial box rising from the plains of Oklahoma, with oil derricks projecting from its roof, is in fact a library inspired by the natural and economic characteristics of the place. LWPB answered a few questions about the Patience S. Latting Northwest Library. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? In M...
Designed by French studio Heams & Michel Architectes, Childhouse House provides indoor and outdoor play spaces where children between the ages of six and 12 can take part in cultural and educational activities during afternoons and weekends. The building is situated beside an old farmhouse and a park in the La Bocca area of Cannes. Architects Nicolas Heams and Benjami...
Located on the campus of Michigan's Kalamazoo College, the building accommodates spaces for human rights and social justice studies, but also serves as a public forum where controversial subjects can be openly discussed and debated.Rather than planning a building to simply house these activities, Chicago-based Jeanne Gang sought to develop a structure that would "embody ...
The Bristol Life Sciences Building was designed by Sheppard Robson to provide new teaching labs, formal and informal learning spaces, a communal atrium and a bio-sciences library for the University of Bristol. The facility is located on the university's campus in a conservation area and replaces the disused wards of a children's hospital, two blocks of houses and a 19...
This five-storey facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. This amazing design by CPG Consultants seems to offer a new experience at every elevation or perspective fulfilling the intent that a school for art should inspire creativity. ...
News: British architecture studio Caruso St John has won a competition to restore and expand one of Sweden's most significant 20th century buildings – the Stockholm City Library by Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Caruso St John will pick up the baton for the library project, which has been on hold since 2009, after being selected as "the most qualified" firm fo...
Small-scale fittings, blackboards walls and round toilet cubicles are incorporated into this kindergarten in Japan, designed by architecture studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro around a garden playground Japanese studio Hibino Sekkei partnered with sister company Youji no Shiro – which specialises in design for children – on the design of DS Nursery, located in Ib...
Architecture firm Hawkins\Brown has converted a pair of north London warehouses using timber dividers to create a temporary home for The Bartlett school of architecture (+ slideshow). London studio Hawkins\Brown carried out the conversion for University College London's Faculty of the Built Environment – The Bartlett – on Hampstead Road, north London. The firm has cr...
The design of the new National Library building is modelled on a book page that is in the process of being turned over. The simple, geometric shape of a gentle curve forms the basis for the design and ensures the building has a unique profile, which acts as a distinctive landmark. Contrary to conventional libraries that are often characterised by their rigid shape, the N...
Aberrant Architecture renovated the interior of this small private school in London with brightly coloured walls and furniture that pays homage to the building's Edwardian roots (+ slideshow). Aberrant Architecture designed the interior for Rosemary Works primary school in De Beauvoir, an area bordering Regent's canal in Hackney, east London. The south-London studio ...
Inside Festival: Tony Materne of MPH Architects explains how the Australian firm created a huge construction training facility "within the existing envelope" of a former Adelaide car plant (+ movie). The Sustainable Industries Education Centre (SIEC), which won the Sustainable Re-use category at Inside Festival this year, is a 45,0000 square-metre campus, which provides ...
This school is an addition to an existing arts academy on the northern edge of Maastricht’s city center. Originally conceived to combine the architecture, fashion, fine arts, industrial, and graphic design programs of study and their respective studios; it is comprised of two buildings connected to one another via an enclosed footbridge, which is elevated three stories a...
In 2018, during the reconstruction of public spaces in front of the municipal office and policlinic in Týnec nad Sázavou. Installed urban furniture: ALUMA benches, MAG litter bins, ALUSO barrier pillars, LUX display cases, TOMI bike racks, LUEDA tree grids
The Collegiate School was founded in 1628 and is the oldest school of its kind in the US. The new 180.000-square metre building accommodates state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories, a gym, a practice studio, an auditorium, a theatre and a café. For the facade, the architects at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates used concrete skin slabs in silver grey and liquid black.
Macalloy 520 M48 tension rods were used in this three dimensional queen-post truss structure in Banff, Alberta. Custom designed butterfly node connectors were installed at truss nodes and Macalloy cross couplers at rod intersections to achieve a uniform plane of nodes and intersecting rods. The exposed glulam beams and Macalloy structure provide a warm and impressive aes...
Project: Utopia. Location: Aalst, Belgium. Application area: Library and academy for performing arts. Total Gross area: 8309 m2. Project year: 2018. Products: TTP 70 LED. Architects: KAAN Architecten (http://kaanarchitecten.com/).
Designed by Aisaka Architects’ Atelier, the spacious Amanenomori Nursery School grows a beautiful green garden at its heart to create a safe and nurturing environment that reconnects children to nature. In addition to its green oasis, the nursery school also includes solar panels, rainwater harvesting, Earth Tube heating, and a rooftop vegetable garden to teach children ...
Woods Bagot has designed the flagship home for the new University of Sydney Business School. Catering to over 6,000 students, the Abercrombie precinct includes three 550-seat lecture theatres, eight 100-seat study rooms, 40 seminar rooms, a learning hub and 1,500sqm of informal learning space. The vision for the project was to create a 21st century learning environment t...
The volume of new building of the Faculty of Engineering is determined by the urban plan almost as interpolation, the default form, embedded in a set of planned buildings. It is open to the shorter sides, and its longer facade oriented on a narrow and high facades to neighboring buildings. To receive natural light and air cross ventilation, section of the building is pro...
Construction will commence following the completion of the 2015 edition of the fair, and will continue into 2017. despite the planned schedule, organizers have insisted that the 2016 event will remain unaffected by construction work. designed by fentress architects, in collaboration with local practice arquitectonica and landscapers west8, the plans include a new 80,...
bjarke ingels group has revealed plans to renovate and extend UMass amherst’s isenberg school of management (ISOM) in massachusetts. the $62 million USD project adds 70,000 square feet of classrooms and laboratories, as well as an atrium that doubles as a cultural hub and events center. construction work has begun on site, with the new facility scheduled for completion i...
The Book Garden is a gigantic green-roofed building measuring 154,000 square feet that has 12 miles of shelves packed with millions of books. The project is part of a larger 700,000 square foot complex that features several movie theaters, science halls, classrooms, a prayer room and a restaurant.The Book Garden aims to encourage Iranian children to be “active and creati...
The colorful building housing recreational facilities received numerous awards and led to the recent Gary Comer College Prep, which forms a small campus with its predecessor. Bright green metal panels define the new building, linking it with the Youth Center without mimicking the earlier design. John Ronan Architects answered some questions about their design of the Coll...
Besides the educational facilities, a number of external services which are related to this education – such as a pharmacy, a nursery and a provision for the elderly - are included in the building. Both internally and externally the Kellebeek College communicates strongly; in a single glance it is clear that it concerns a leading educational institution which provide...
That line, however, assumes new meaning upon entering the Sonia Rykiel flagship at 175 Boulevard Saint-Germain, where 50,000 books comprise a novel pop-up store concept. Conceived by Julie de Libran, the brand's artistic director, in collaboration with publisher-director Thomas Lenthal and artist André Saraïva, the renovated space reads as an 'exaggeration' that makes...
As part of our month of all things Brick, our correspondents Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera introduce us to the sensuously curving Catalan roofs of the extraordinary and little-known National Art Schools of Cuba project, which began in a burst of revolutionary fervour in the 1960s. The National Art Schools of Cuba constitute an exciting and little-known cha...
The original design of the Free University in West Berlin is a cautionary tale of a radical 1960s dream gone sour: a lightweight modular megastructure, with input by Jean Prouvé, intended to offer endlessly extendable and flexible space, which proved disastrously unresolved in the making. But as Florian Heilmeyer reports, in its subsequent phases of development, includin...
on july 22, 2014, a fire destroyed half of a school campus in los angeles. four years after this tragic event, the school has been completely rebuilt. brooks + scarpa reimagined the old campus by creating a new structure that now houses 630 students. facilities are spread across an elongated yellow building that curves to form a courtyard. the site contains more than ele...
“An architecture without qualities”: this is how Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani describes Max Dudler’s projects, by contrast with the “tangles, spirals, amoeba, compositions of shells, crystals, twisted prisms, irons and cucumbers” which colonised many cities all around the word, stemming from the seminal experience of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. In this regard, the abse...
Animo South Los Angeles charter high school designed by Brooks+Scarpa is an addition to a campus built in 1950 that aims to provide a safe environment for learning, as well as to become a reference for the local community. As the architects explain, the area was a central spot during the Watts and Rodney King riots, – that repectively took place in 1964 and 1992 – rebell...
The open library provides easy access for the readers to browse books, plus there are sitting spaces and a tiny stage for street artists. As Varna is a city that’s located by the seaside and is often called “The marine capital of Bulgaria”, the chosen shape of the library was inspired by the shell of a sea snail. Named ‘Rapana’, the design was created using the par...
Address: Levantkaj, Nordhavnen, Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Property Foundation Copenhagen International School (ECIS) Architect: C.F. Møller Architects Landscape architect: C.F. Møller Landscape Engineer: Niras Size: 25,000 m2 (1200 students) Year: 2013-2017 Solar-powered School of the Future. CIS Nordhavn is a new school building for the Co...
The new design forms a fresh and individual space that reflects ICS’s culture and values, and gives their staff and students a strong sense of belonging. Three pods are built into the wall at the far end of the entry hall, creating spaces where students can study or relax. The lower pods are equipped with whiteboards, allowing students to write and sketch freely ...
alberto campo baeza has designed a multi-sport and teaching pavilion for francisco de vitoria university’s campus in pozuelo, madrid. following a similar theme found in many of baeza’s earlier works, the structure evokes a sense of overall lightness. the building is composed of two rectilinear boxes connected at the lower level by a low-rise structure and roof-top patio....
the berggruen institute, an independent think tank based in california, has unveiled plans for a new campus overlooking los angeles. the project, which has been designed by swiss firm herzog & de meuron, has been conceived as a ‘landscape vision’ with the development preserving more than 90% of the 447-acre site as open space. comprising meeting and study spaces, scholar...
