Education – Page 4
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Building StudyDrawing board: St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School, South London by AOC
AOC’s extension to a south London girls’ school opens up its defensive design with a glass entrance and uses striking brick signage to emphasise its presence
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Building StudyScuola La Monda, Grono, Switzerland by Raphael Zuber
Raphael Zuber’s innovative school building in Grono, Switzerland is a lesson in what creative practices can achieve in a conducive industry culture
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Building StudyBroadway School by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture
A pragmatic yet innovative approach to a school refurbishment in Birmingham points towards the future of educational institutions in these straitened times
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Building StudyThe Spa School, Southwark, by AOC
AOC’s BSF Spa School for children with autistic spectrum disorder makes a virtue of its suburban setting
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Building StudyHenrietta Barnett School, Hampstead Garden Suburb by Hopkins Architects
Hopkins’ greatest skill is in creating contextual rather than iconic architecture, and its new school buildings next to Lutyens’ Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute put this to the test
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TechnicalChelsea Open Air Nursery classroom by Friend & Company Architects
A need to provide more classroom space and a stronger connection to the garden has led to the creation of a new “tree house” mezzanine in a children’s nursery in London.
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Building StudyEllis Miller’s campus for Catmose College
Jonathan Ellis-Miller’s modular school pays tribute to the hi-tech era while presaging the dawn of a joyless flatpack future
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Building StudyCity of Westminster College by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
City of Westminster College, the Learning & Skills Council’s last grand vision, leaves a dramatic monument to a bygone age.
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Building StudyCranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design, by Niall McLaughlin Architects
With its distinctive wing-like roof, Niall McLaughlin’s building for Cranfield University in Bedfordshire fits well with the ambition of the only campus to have its own airfield.
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TechnicalSomerville College student buildings by Niall McLaughlin Architects
Niall McLaughlin’s new student accommodation in Oxford makes use of prefabrication in its mainly brick and timber facade.
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Building StudySt Joseph’s Primary School, Highgate, by Pie Architecture
Pie Architecture’s individual reworking of a 1970s primary school is notable for its careful attention to the needs of the classroom
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's school of the arts for the University of Kent
Hawkins Brown took a film studio lot as the inspiration for its new Jarman Building in Canterbury for the University of Kent.
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Building StudySchool House at St Elizabeth primary school, Bethnal Green, by Scabal
Scabal’s skill in extracting maximum value from the budget to create an after school club building is the antithesis of the free school movement’s anti-architect doctrine
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Building StudyEvelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, by Zaha Hadid Architects
The aggressive swagger of Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy reflects the hard-edged dynamism found within the school itself
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Building StudyRavensbourne College, Greenwich, by Foreign Office Architects
FOA’s new building for Ravensbourne College makes bold predictions about how the next generation of students will be taught
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TechnicalChabot College Community & Student Services Centre by TBP Architecture
A new California college building incorporates electronically tintable glass to shield its atrium from the heat.
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Building StudyCentre for Alternative Technology education building by Pat Borer and David Lea
The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the values it champions
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Building StudyPenoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy
Penoyre & Prasad’s Wren Academy in north London specialises in the built environment, meaning that the building itself is a teaching aid
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Building StudyRevisiting Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton school was one of the first secondary moderns. Nearly 60 years after it was built, it is still going strong
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Building StudyHawkins Brown's Royal Veterinary College at Potters Bar
Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for its student accommodation complex at the Royal Veterinary College at Potters Bar