The Seville-based firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has won the competition to expand and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, located at Calle Requena 1, next to the Plaza de Oriente. Unifying the premises, the project integrates two adja
On the outskirts of the town of Derio, near Bilbao, the Barcelona firm AV62 – led by Toño Foraster – was commissioned by APNABI (Association of families of people with autism spectrum disorders) to design this day center for young persons diagnosed w
The starting design decision was to separate the spaces for the performing arts – with specific dimensional, acoustic, and formal requirements – from other more generic spaces common to other schools.
The old building of the Mariñamasa School Home – a student residence in Ourense, built in 1970 by the architects Emma Ojea and Walter Lewin – was turned into a center for research and innovation in vocational training. After an analysis of the abando
The building is located by the Convent of Discalced Carmelites. According to historical maps, the plot was part of the convent’s kitchen gardens, and this condition marks the character of the proposal from the beginning. Towards the city it expresses
Addressing two different programs, the complex breaks up into interconnected separate volumes on the banks of the Pisuerga River. The largest, at the site’s north end, harbors the auditorium seating 608. The smaller ones contain the music school’s cl
The school is organized in different buildings which, like a campus, adopt the proportion and orientation of the existing ones. The contoured and organic profile of the Radiohuset, a landmark of modern Danish architecture, is replicated on the new fa
Elevated above the ground, the Center for Hearing and Language is accessed by means of a slender path that winds towards the ground level. The new school, surrounded by grand existing trees, replaces two massive provisional buildings. The L-shaped vo
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
The Treviso-based practice of Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, and Curzio Pentimalli built the new Music School of Bressanone, which was founded in 1961 and is among the most important cultural institutions in the Alpine region of South Tyrol. The ti
The unobstructed space inside a shed with a striking roof is home to a school for environmental studies that uses the building itself as a lesson on sustainability. Exemplifying restrained use of forest resources, the structure of V-forming pillars w
On land cultivated by a rural cooperative, a new building hosts an internationally known circus training school in volumes that use the language of agricultural sheds. An enclosure made of corrugated fiber cement panels results in a unitary image tha
The future EESI is a school that functions as learning machine, a place consisting of flexible spaces characterized by their simplicity and economy of means, and that pays special attention to context and the history of the city...
The three volumes are linked by a large Y-shaped central courtyard that gives an overall view of the whole ensemble, and each one will house a different education program, shaping a campus that fosters new forms of work and interaction among users. W
The project approaches the Zeleieta Zentroa building as an autonomous element. With this idea as starting point, the following objectives are set: in the first place, to turn its party wall into an extra facade to complete and wrap up the entire peri
As a result of a conceptual operation that sections the building in two, the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts consists of a series of interconnected spaces that advance new directions in teaching and research, crossing boundaries between the arts
Part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall occupy a brutalist-style building carried out by the Italian architect Pietro Belluschi in 1969. Besides enlarging the built area, the renovation ai
Located along the river Limmat, on the spot occupied by old building, destroyed by fire in 2012, the Tanzhaus Zürich stands as an important cultural institution, a school of dance that has become the symbolic center of the neighborhood. The project a
The extension of the Isenberg School of Management building seeks to bring together departments at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts while creating a new workspace for students where events and lectures can be held. The program al
The new MBA Building for the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) is located on the prestigious school’s campus, close to the historic Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. The visionary original 1964 design of the campus had been compromised over the
The new Massana School is part of a long process of urban transformation around Plaça de la Gardunya, in the Raval neighborhood, in the historic center of Barcelona. The project analyzes the place in detail. Unlike the residential block on the same
Since the Tyler School of Art of Temple University was founded in the early 1930s, the school occupied a bucolic suburb in North Philadelphia. Tyler’s scattered residential-scaled buildings had, by 2003, fallen in disrepair leading the University to
The Peeler Art Center is sited on a corner property at the western edge of the main campus. The building’s primary elevation faces north where three large window monitors single out the painting and drawing studios at the top level. Distributed on tw
