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18-12-2023

Huizhen High School: a campus that celebrates free thought

Huizhen High School, designed by the Approach Design Studio in collaboration with the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, is a campus that breaks the traditional mould of school buildings, allowing students to relax and "waste their time mindfully". The project was initially selected in the Completed Building School category of the World Architecture Festival, and went on to win the World Building of the Year title.

15-12-2023

Transforming the Past into the Future: The Eugénie Brazier School Complex in Lyon by Vurpas Architectes

In the heart of Lyon's La Confluence district, a new school complex inserts itself into an old wholesale market building. The project, completed by the Vurpas Architectes studio, transforms a former logistics centre into an innovative educational institution, responding to the educational challenges of the future.

01-12-2023

Architecture and resistance, the school complex designed by O-S and NAS in Béziers

Through the design of the school complex in Béziers, France, the O-S architectes and NAS architecture studios demonstrate, in a tangible way, how architecture can not only foster reconciliation with institutions, but also solve intricate and problematic urban nodes. Their vision fully embraces the idea, emphasized by O-S architectes, that it is the responsibility of architects not to abandon any urban area.

21-04-2023

Leddy Maytum Stacy Science and Environmental Centre for the Nueva School in California

An architecture based on the philosophy of learning by doing and by caring for the environment: this is the key concept of the project created by the Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects studio for the new Science and Environmental Centre of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California. The building received the 2022 AIA National Education Facility Design Award and is LEED Gold, Net Zero Energy certified.

13-04-2023

An antidote to cultural taxidermy in rural China

To combat depopulation and the lack of a future for the Dong villages along the Pingtan River, a Chinese university research laboratory proposes a new model of community library, made entirely of wood with interwoven spiral staircases and no walls.

17-11-2022

Henley Halebrown Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road in London

In London, the hybrid building designed by Henley Halebrown combines a new primary school with an affordable housing complex. The project was selected as one of six finalists for the RIBA Stirling Prize and won the Neave Brown Award for Housing 2022, a RIBA award reserved for social housing projects.

11-11-2022

Dawoffice: Kamanar secondary school in Thionck Essyl, Senegal

In Thionck Essyl, in the south of Senegal, Dawoffice built Kamanar secondary school out of timber and clay. With vernacular reminiscences and a very specific identity arising out of the construction’s relationship with its existing natural surroundings, the school is a passive building based on local know-how.

03-10-2022

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022: Here are the winners

The six winning projects of the 2022 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious architectural awards, were announced on 22 September in Geneva. This accolade rewards both the designers as well as the clients and communities for whom the work was created; the six winners will share a million-dollar prize.

19-09-2022

Dominique Coulon Moulon School Group in Gif-sur-Yvette

In Gif-sur-Yvette, a French town less than 30 km from Paris, the new Moulon school complex designed by architect Dominique Coulon and his firm has been built. The project, which the architect himself called a very stimulating experience, is part of the master plan created by the XDGA agency and landscape architect Michel Desvignes.