PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS - Education

AgwA has proven its ability to develop a project capable of adapting to the multiplicity of its occupants, capable of offering a diversified program within the same space, and capable of communicating and being enriched by all the project's stakeholders, however, varied they may be. The housing blocks of Brussels are characterized by their parcel-based division. The cohe...

Bold shapes, colours and textures define the interior of Two Hands nursery, the newest interior by London architecture studio vPPR. Yet there's more than meets the eye in this pre-school piece of education architecture located in Shepherd’s Bush, as the project was conceived to combine great-looking design with sustainable architecture principles and a stimulating enviro...

Named Woodlands Day Nursery and Forest School, the building is located in a former car park at Staffordshire University and provides childcare services for its students and staff, as well as teaching facilities for its own education department. As part of the project, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios also created a forest school to support an outreach programme in Stoke-on...

Located in the rapidly developing Quzhou Smart New Town, the school is surrounded by residential areas on its south, north and west sides, and connects to the Xincheng Cultural and Educational District in the east where Quzhou Jingcai High School and Quzhou No. 1 Middle School are located. Our Xinhua No.2 Primiary School extends into the residential area like a “peninsul...

KPMB Architects designed the Boston University Centre for Computing & Data Science to stand 305 feet tall (92 metres) on the Charles River. A series of volumes were stacked in a skewed way so that it cantilevers over all sides of the 19-storey structure. "[It is] the largest sustainable, fossil-fuel building in Boston," said Boston University (BU). "The vertical campus ...

The reception counter and parent’s cafe at entry, create a welcoming, relaxed and immediate contact point for all visitors. The parents café emphasises the school’s philosophy of wellness, promoting healthy food options. The lobby area comprises of elements that inspire to engage and socialise with soft seating and use of natural materials bring a sense of warmth with i...

When the relevant authorities in the state of Alabama noticed that students in rural towns weren’t getting the same academic opportunities as those coming from bigger cities, they decided to act. They joined forces with nonprofit Ed Farm and learning space design expert Kurani, alongside high-profile partners such as Apple, and the idea for a facility that accommodates v...

The new School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE) at Curtin University is the third architecture school that John Wardle Architects (JWA) has designed over the past two decades. The University of South Australia’s Kaurna Building was the first, in 2006, followed by the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne, in 2015. Together, these three projec...

Aptly titled Collage for S.R. Crown Hall, the piece is comprised of a 650-square-foot photograph of a desert landscape hung in the clerestory windows above the building’s South entrance. Evron’s interest in Mies’ designs began with his collages, an obscure body of work compared to the legacy of his buildings, but the launching point for his American legacy. The series o...

The school was an existing establishment that suffered irreparable damage during the strong earthquake that struck Albania on November 26th, 2019, therefore it needed to be rebuilt. The new project has extended the student capacity from 500 to 900 pupils. It has 27 classrooms, 4 laboratories, a gymnasium as well as an outdoor sports field, an auditorium, a library, and s...

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, The Ellen Fund, and MASS Design Group celebrated the opening of The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Fossey Gorilla Fund in a ceremony at the campus this week. The new multi-building campus is a $15 million investment that anchors the region as a conservation hub for ecological preservation and education in Africa. The 12-acre campus models MAS...

This idea is embodied in the design of the building, forming it into a circular shape to create a central meeting space, with four main classrooms arranged around it. The shape of the curve was derived from the shape of the stream which forms the site boundary on the northern side of the building and helps root the building in its place. Further ideas of connection and ...

The Pavilion plays! will be presented for the first time in the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome, from May 25 to October 2, 2022, and will then be exhibited in the Grand Parc des Docks de Saint-Ouen from spring 2023, in anticipation of and during the Games of Paris 2024. Invited by the Villa Médicis as part of the first edition of the Festival des Cabanes, the DREAM ...

Their design firm is focused on nation-building and helping India move forward into the future. Now, they’re designing a military school that will inspire soldiers and students of the future. The Sainik School provides military training and general study to students in grades six through nine. This requires two distinct sections at the school: an academic area and the r...

The new administrative building of ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. oHG will accommodate up to 000 people. An operation signed by BAID Architekten. Ultramodern and agile: these are the two terms that characterize the ALDI North Campus, a symbol of the brand's transformation process. Covering an area equivalent to 14 football pitches, the new building provides an ideal working env...

On 23 May 2022, London’s Royal College of Art, the world’s leading art and design university, unveiled the new Battersea campus designed by internationally renowned firm Herzog & de Meuron. A £135 million project described by Sir Jony Ive, Rector of the Royal College of Art as “a new chapter in the life of the college and the inspirational work its graduates will bring...

The main reason for this deprivation is the lack of proper infrastructure as well as the lack of an attitude towards the expansion of the economy and macro education among women and girls in urban society. At the same time, women and girls play a major role in the flourishing of the economy and rural and indigenous handicrafts. The House of Women is trying to appreciate ...

The district – officially called the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr Athenæum – will encompass 12 acres (4.9 hectares) on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. Positioned on the southeastern edge of campus, the district will "allow both students and the surrounding community to experience the convergence of art and architecture in ways not previously possib...

The Woodside Building for Technology and Design by Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University is a landmark building for the university’s Clayton campus. Following the completion of the new Suburban Rail Loop, it will also become a gateway to the university. At first glance, the Woodside Building appears as a refined, shed-like structure set within a native bush la...

The project, named Bougainvillea, was designed by the architecture firm Designing Humanity (Yash Mehta and Bruno Silva) and printing partner 14Trees. Maggie Grout, founder and CEO of Thinking Huts, envisioned a honeycomb design. Architects Bruno Silva and Yash Menta ran with that concept to create this school. Bougainvillea was developed to improve access to education i...

The building is a major new development for LSE, establishing a new presence for the university on Lincoln's Inn Fields as part of their campus in the heart of London. Situated on the ‘shoreline’ between the formal setting of the fields to the north and a more intricate urban grain to the south, the building form adjusts to this context, maintaining a unified expression...

The two new facilities, Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall, double the School’s current square footage, creating multifunctional spaces that foster a sense of community—spaces where students, faculty, alumni, and practitioners can gather to exchange ideas. The design of both buildings recognizes that creativity, innovation, and communication—skills often nurture...

Chinese practice Dika Architectural Design took a page from the unbridled imagination of children to design a lollipop-shaped building swathed in dreamy candy-pink hues, punctured by a playful hodgepodge of circular and rectangular openings. Complemented by subdued yet whimsical interiors, colour-packed playgrounds, and a four-storey mural of a cartoon baby face out of w...

“The Brandenburg state government, in close cooperation with the Saxon state government, wants to give additional impetus and more momentum to structural development in Lusatia and develop it into a model region for structural change,” the state of Brandenburg says on its website. How can these goals be achieved? By counteracting the exodus of young families in particula...

In a contemporary key and following the criteria of environmental sustainability, the project foresaw the construction of a new gym and included the expansion of a library and of teaching-dedicated spaces for the Collodi primary school. The structure, which covers 1500 square metres, has been conceived and created as a function of the strong link with the outdoor green...

The client, two dynamic ladies who were running a small pre-primary setup, approached Studio Infinity with a site where they wanted to expand their endeavors into a larger space. This new site was an old dilapidated house, set amidst a residential neighborhood. The first challenge was to fit in a school's requirements into a house with odd column-beam grid and varying o...

Within a 32-acre campus, Sanjay Puri architects has completed the design for the main administration offices of the Prestige University in Indore, India. The newly unveiled building takes shape as a staggered arrangement of green terraces, gradually stepping up to reveal the 20-meter height of the structure. The distinctive volume houses a variety of functions including...

Emerging onto the site with its undulating slopes, the Dalezhiye kindergarten proposal by Dika Design in Leshan, China, is a 9,077 sqm architecture that dramatically blurs the scales. It is a free-form school volume that extends 62 meters on its north-south axis and 148 meters on its east-west axis. Ultimately, the project doesn’t stick to a defined identity; instead, it...

Based in Bristol, the clients for Dwelling Unit for Musicians are a cellist and double bassist who will use the space as an office and rehearsal studio. They selected AUAR’s system over other backyard-unit options because AUAR’s dwelling units can be easily customized to site and use, offering a unique structure. They also feature thermal and acoustic insulation, which c...

The first images of a university designed by Sou Fujimoto architects reveal a large, walkable roofscape that curves down to the ground. Under the tentative name ‘Hida Takayama University’, the new educational institution is planned for Hida, a small japanese town with a mountainous landscape. Unlike most universities, which are built in highly populated cities or towns...

Brooklyn-based studio BAAO architects completes a school dubbed ‘city kids.’ The new childhood education center is located in Williamsburg, and hosts six preschool classrooms open which onto a central double-height courtyard gathering space. This courtyard features a thickened wall that incorporates the reception desk and storage cubbies and provides a central gathering ...

Its light-colored concrete façades are sculpted, and the openwork of this thickness forms a colonnade on the port side and a grand staircase on the city side, creating the interplay of light and shadow in its embrasures. In contrast to the building’s envelope, the interiors are warm and comfortable thanks to the use of color and wood. A remarkable site. The Antoine de R...

Its hyper-modern glass exterior epitomizes the core philosophy of using architecture to catalyze cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary co-operation. “Before starting the project in 2013, we visited science hubs like the Francis Crick Institute in London and the Maersk Tower in Copenhagen,” Vendela Martinac, who heads the Stockholm branch of C.F. Møller Architect...

The site is located in the ancient city of Gaoyou，where the grand canal runs through the west. The old streets and alleys around the site are crisscrossed, dense and even crowded, forming a simple and fresh atmosphere of traditional Chinese cities. Wang Zengqi (1920-1997), a famous contemporary Chinese writer, is known as "the last scholar bureaucrat in China" and "Ly...

The oval-shaped construction comprises four classrooms and two flexible spaces arranged around an interior courtyard. Its design takes its cues from vernacular precedents, while local, traditional skills and materials are utilized in its construction, similar to the thread cultural center which the New York-based studio designed a few years back. Toshiko Mori architec...

A very simple ‘chopstick’ urban plan is developed by O.M.A. in which green open pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to offer a notion of centrality to the linear plan, a public path is meant to cross the whole strip. The site for the school faces one green area at its south side, the dock on its west side, a square and a housing block on the north, and...