MGM Arquitectos José Morales Sara de Giles Rocío Casado   Spain   Located within the complex of the Colegio Bienaventurada Virgen María de las Irlandesas – designed in 1964 by the Sevillian brothers Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón –, the project foresaw the construction of a kindergarten, as well as solving

Alcolea + Tárrago Roberto Ercilla Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   In the university campus of Teatinos, west of the city of Málaga, stand two new volumes clad in white Macael marble of the Scalea® by Cosentino range, presenting basic geometries and an institutional character in dialogue with a landscaped environmen

Tadao Ando   Mexico   Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The Royal College of Art has officially opened its new campus in the Battersea district of southwest London, beside its old premises. The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the 2016 competition through a flexible scheme that would adapt to the constan

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   A scheme drawn up by Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz, and Nicolás Maruri González de Mendoza with Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez has placed first in the competition to build a classroom block in the Madrid-Vicálvaro campus of Rey Juan Carlos Univ

Ander Bados Sesma Betsaida Curto Reyes   Peru   Shortlisted for the 2022 International FAD Awards, this work is an extension of the Villa Magisterial school in the district of Cerro Colorado, in Arequipa Province. The jury considered its attention to dignity in an environment of scarcity, its capa

Mert Uslu Architecture   Turkey   Farming tasks are interwoven with educational initiatives and research projects in a facility that focuses on the challenges that agriculture has to confront in the face of climate change. The different programs are arranged in a linear scheme along

BDR bureau   Italy   In Turin’s Nizza Millefonti district, the firm BDR bureau – Alberto Bottero and Simona Della Rocca – has worked on a school first built in the 1960s, adapting its architecture to the new pedagogical needs of students in the 11–14 age range. The entra

IDOM   Spain   In the Basque city of San Sebastián, on Aldapeta Galtzada, stands this new-build educational center run by Marianists, high on a promontory called Alto de Aiete that looks over rooftops and out north towards the Concha Bay. Directed by Antonio Lorén

Thomas Phifer   United States   The building was originally planned – seventy years ago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) – as a chapterhouse for the fraternity Pi Lambda Phi, in the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. While respecting the initial concept, the firm Tho

Os 3 arkitektura   Spain   The extension is a volume with a frame of cross-laminated timber panels, clad in larchwood louvers and held up by the loadbearing walls of a 19th-century villa beside it, in the Basque town of Usurbil, Gipuzkoa province. The intervention stretches on

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXCollaborative, Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – standing 11 and 8 floors, respectively – are two new facilities in the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University Business Scho

Studio Muoto Label Architects GRAU   Belgium   The complex includes a programmatic addition of elementary school, high school, and sport center, arranged in an enfilade and connected by footbridges to form a single infrastructure that can evolve and adapt to new activities over time...

Studio Muoto   France   Ubicado en los históricos jardines de Versalles, el conjunto escolar evoca el rigor técnico y la optimización formal de los invernaderos. En su cubierta integra un pequeño jardín hortícola que sirve como herramienta pedagógica y favorece la biodivers

Studio Muoto Label Architects   Belgium   The stepped profile of the building dialogs with its two immediate realities: its north facade is a large transparent screen revealing daily activity, and the south one is broken up into terraces to adapt to the scale of the neighboring housing block

Studio Muoto   France   The project is located in the up and coming district of Cambarérès, the new urban center devoted to innovation in Montpellier. The tech hall will host young developing companies and encourage a multi-disciplinarian approach to creation. The building

Grafton Architects   United Kingdom   The 2016 competition for the design of a new building at the London School of Economics and Political Research on Lincoln’s Inn Fields was won by Grafton Architects, which carried the day over firms like David Chipperfield Architects, Diller Scofidio

bxd arquitectura    Spain   This pre-school – for the 0–3 age group – rises on a 32x39-meter plot in a new growth area of El Vendrell, a municipality in Tarragona province. A work bxd arquitectura —Francesc Buixeda, Maria Barcina y Javier Ivorra—, the building presents classroo

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   A Madrid business school has expanded its facilities with the construction of new teaching spaces that together have the effect of consolidating the entire campus around a pine grove. A stone vault built with 777 pieces parameterized and fitted toget

Daaz Office   Iran   A project of the NGO Iran-e-Man, this educational center for children is also a gathering and learning place for people of the Iranian village of Seyed-Bar. The budget was limited but the villagers took part both physically and financially in realizi

EEESTUDIO Lys Villalba   Spain   Eva, carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families, and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, 30 kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in

SUMO arquitectes   Spain   The Catalan firm SUMO arquitectes – Marc Camallonga, Jordi Pagès, Pasqual Bendicho – renovated and enlarged this school in Barcelona, organized in three volumes and combining concrete and wood. The 1950s building has undergone a thorough revamp. The

Flores & Prats   Spain   Cal Maiol School draws on the character and the past of Can Batlló, associated with industrial activity. The new complex includes the existing transformer station and establishes a relationship with it in terms of type, construction, structure, and p

Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A

In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit

Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve

Soon after the Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara learned that they had come away with the 2010 Pritzker Prize (see Arquitectura Viva 223), it was announced that their firm, Grafton Architects, had carried the day in the competition for

Directed by Miguel Martínez and Pau Batalla, the firm Emac – an acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture – carried the day in the ideas competition for a preschool and primary school situated in La Pobla Llarga, a municipality in

Prejudice associates private schools in the English-speaking countryside with antiquated but decorous Gothic or neo-Gothic architectures featuring ivy-covered walls, colorful stained glass windows, and boiseries worthy of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. So

Brutalism with a friendly countenance: this is how one might venture to describe the architecture that Grafton Architects – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – have been carrying out for the past twenty years in Ireland, Europe, and America, from t

Observer   Helen Holmes    Formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, Oolite Arts is an organization that has worked for decades in order to provide affordable work space for visual artists in Miami, a mission that has become increasingly difficult in a city saturated by block

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   In a departure from the gothic image of English private schools, Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition. Think of an English private school and you will probably think of somewhere gothic. Something like

Universities are mothers that nurture knowledge, depositaries of wisdom that guarantee the continuity of our civilization, and also foci of innovation that serve to steer societies towards unknown roads.

Two issues ago, in time with the opening of Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, we highlighted the splendid international trajectory of Barozzi Veiga, dotted as it is with building works as iconic as the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Philharmonic Hall in

It has been announced by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago that the winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – awarded every two years to the finest works of architecture carried out in t

Studio Muoto recently completed a multiuse installation for the Université Paris-Saclay campus. Aiming for a combination of rationalization and flexibililty, the Parisian architecture firm has designed a volume characterized by large aluminum sliding

The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic

Based in Palma de Mallorca, the young studio TEd’A arquitectes – headed by Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez, recent recipient of the FAD Award for Interiors – has finished a school in the small Swiss locality of Orsonnens, fifty kilometers from Bern. The

Among Spain’s young practices right now, Barozzi Veiga is one of those most present in the international spotlight, and it has just wrapped up a music school in Brunico, a town in Italy’s South Tyrol region. Respect for the urban fabric, with its con

The Madrid studio of Emilio Tuñón has won the bid to expand the architecture school of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT). Its design divides the program into three blocks: the existing building, containing administrative services and off

Juana Salcedo   Giancarlo Mazzanti   The multipurpose nature of these facilities enhances their social dimension: Marinilla Park is a street, a garden, and an educational building; and Pinch Center is a playground and urban lookout. Projects like Timayui Social Garden or Pies Descalzos

The Irish firm of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, operating since 1978 as Grafton Architects, has been much acclaimed for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, a half-buried civic box of concrete – completed in the year 2008 – that strikes an i

Designed by the Boston studio Machado & Silvetti, the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life is a complex in the New York University campus, harboring its numerous religious associations. Not being linked to a specific creed, the symbolic

La de las Escuelas de Arte de Cubanacán es la historia de un sueño frustrado que hoy, gracias a una iniciativa del bailarín cubano Carlos Acosta, el empresario David Tang y Norman Foster (que se hará cargo del proyecto) podría llevarse, por fin, a té

La oficina de Rem Koolhaas ha ganado el concurso para ampliar la escuela de ingenieros École Centrale del campus de Saclay, en París, y desarrollar el plan urbanístico de la zona. Basada en el desarrollo del concepto ‘ciudad laboratorio’, la propuest

Situada al oeste del archipiélago indonesio, Sumatra es la sexta isla más grande del mundo, con casi 445.000 kilómetros cuadrados, y en ella se concentra una parte muy importante de la producción mundial de canela. Con el fin de promover el cultivo s

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