German architect Christoph Klemmt has designed the Parascape project – a new architecture school in Stuttgart. The project was developed as a place for communication and the exchange of ideas, social and gathering spaces are everywhere integrated into the buildings. The building is designed to be transparent, allowing visual connections from each area into the [...]
BIG and Fuglark have won the competition to design a 19.200 m2 Faroe Islands Education Centre in Torshavn. The project was designed as a vortex, located on a hillside, 100 m above the sea level with a panoramic view overlooking the sea, mountains and harbor of Torshavn. It has successfully created a focusing point as [...]
Elementary School ‘Dender’ was the winning project by Compagnie-O architecten in 2003, and was recently completed. There are 8 new classes, a polyvalent space, reception and sanitary have been extended to the existing school. + Project description courtesy of Compagnie-O architecten History The existing primary school of Geraardsbergen nests itself in an absurd inner area [...]
‘Dragen’ Children’s House by C. F Møller Architects has recently been inaugurated. This integrated kindergarten is one of the passive house in Denmark that using a minimum of energy. The fundamental architectural concept is a simple and clear geometric form on two levels, with the children’s areas located in the best-lit southern end. The two [...]
The Connector by formodesign, is an extension project for Architecture and Engineering buildings at Technical University of Lodz, Poland. The project is composed and stacked by 3 linear forms with the open views towards the park. The idea for our concept was not only to make a form that would connect the buildings but which [...]
VBM architects has designed the BSBO School in Halmaalweg Sint-Truiden, Belgium. The school was built to take care of mentally handicapped and autistic children, this is the good attempt of the randomized openings on the elevation which is the result of the program to stimulate the visual sensitivity of the children. + Project description courtesy [...]
Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Architects recently has completed the Gjerdrum Secondary School, which was the 1st prize project in the invited competition in 2007. + Project description courtesy of Kristin Jarmund Architects The project won 1st prize in an invited competition the autumn of 2007. With very few adjustments the competition project was realised. The [...]
Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘s largest school project – The Thor Heyerdahl School of Advanced and Further Education recently has been completed in Larvik, Norway. We have chosen to rethink and challenge the traditional boundaries surrounding school buildings. We wanted to create an architectonic base for a well functioning student environment and increased cross [...]
41 Cooper Square is the Advancement of Science and Art building for the Cooper Union designed by Morphosis Architects. The project has won the Best Green Design of 2009 Awards from the New York Construction. Built with sustainability goals, 41 Cooper Square is the first LEED certified academic laboratory building in New York City. For [...]
Netherlands-based i29 interior architects recently has completed the interior design of a public school Panta Rhei which was designed by Snelder Architecten located in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The inspiration of the design is come from the name of school – Panta Rhei, meaning ‘everything flows’, ‘everything is in motion’. This led to a design that leaves [...]
Los Angeles practice architect Morphosis (led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne) has designed the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, located in Pasadena, California. The Cahill Center conceptually acts as an astronomical instrument, pierced by a vertical volume, tilted its lense to maximize the penetration of natural daylight [...]
Boavista School is the second school project recently completed by The Portuguese architect José Marini Bragança. Please click here for his first project – Telheiro School in previous post. + Project description provided by architect, José Marini Bragança The Boavista School is located on the outskirts of the city of Leiria, in a rural atmosphere, [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
