Colourful public spaces are part of Pazdigrad Primary School in Croatia
Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow More
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Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More
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Norman Foster's Sainsbury Centre was the first high-tech art gallery in the UK
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we look at how the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts by Norman Foster marked the style's transition from industrial to cultural buildings. More
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Yan'an University Campus evokes the city's ancient stone cave dwellings
Stacks of rough stone and concrete form the campus of Yan'an University in China, designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University to recall the city's famous cave dwellings. More
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BIG designs twisting Virginia school The Heights
BIG has arranged the classrooms of this white-brick and glass school in Arlington, Virginia in a fan-shape to allow for a "cascading terraces". More
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Natural light fills courtyard of Foster + Partners' Samson Pavilion in Cleveland
Glazed walls, a large metal roof and a vast central atrium feature in an academic building designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners for an emerging medical campus in Ohio. More
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Pink concrete staircase connects colourful floors of Belgian school
A pink concrete staircase, gabled roofs and brightly coloured walls define a school with in Zarren, Belgium, designed by architecture studio Felt. More
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Rocky hillside used as walls and floors for Hilltop School in Hyderabad
The rocky hillside surrounding an 800-year-old fortress forms several of the walls and floors of this school by DesignAware in Hyderabad, India. More
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ZMIK turn school corridors into playful learning spaces
Swiss design studio ZMIK has transformed three corridors at a primary school in Basel into flexible learning-spaces designed to promote a sense of wellbeing. More
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Huge rise in number of schools causes "big crisis" in Indian architecture education
Architecture education in India is in crisis with a shortage of teachers, overcrowded classes and widespread cheating by students, according to architects in the country. More
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Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym
The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. More
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Paulien Bremmer wraps "social hub" for Gerrit Rietveld Academie in woven-steel screens
Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. More
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Float Lab designed to serve as "new kind of architecture for climate adaptation"
Sea urchins, mussels and crabs are among the marine creatures that are expected to take up residence in a floating structure in the San Francisco Bay that was created by a multidisciplinary team at the California College of the Arts. More
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Swedish architects create self-sustaining children's centre in Tanzania
Swedish studios Asante Architecture & Design and Lönnqvist & Vanamo Architects have collaborated with local workers to create a self-sufficient orphanage in Kingori, Tanzania. More
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Snøhetta designs Temple University's Charles Library with "unusual geometry"
Curved wooden entrances are carved into this university library that Snøhetta has completed for Temple University in Philadelphia. More
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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners anchors LSE campus with high-tech tower
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed Centre Building, the tallest and largest department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. More
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Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany
Mono Architekten has restored and extended a 1970s concrete school block in Germany with a cluster of curving larch-clad volumes topped with sloping green roofs. More
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AY Architects adds timber science laboratory to London school
A zigzagging structure of spruce beams supports the roof of a science laboratory at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Kentish Town, London, designed by AY Architects. More
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Michigan high school designed to reduce impact of mass shootings
American firm Tower Pinkster has designed a school in Michigan with the aim of reducing the number of student casualties in the event of a terror attack. More
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Gray Organschi completes wooden high school extension with irregular roofing in Connecticut
Outdoor classrooms and active farmlands surround the extension to this ecological high school in Connecticut, which Gray Organschi built with cross-laminated timber to demonstrate sustainable design practices. More
