Ibuku completes "unprecedented" bamboo building in the Balinese jungle
Architecture studio Ibuku has completed The Arc gymnasium for a private school in Bali featuring a complex double-curved roof made entirely from bamboo. More
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Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus
Terracotta-hued towers that reference termite mounds distinguish the Startup Lions Campus, which Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré's studio has completed in Kenya. More
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Kéré Architecture uses local clay to construct Burkina Institute of Technology
Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré's studio has built a university in Burkina Faso, western Africa, which has walls made with locally sourced clay and screens of eucalyptus wood. More
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MGA creates mass timber buildings for forestry college in Oregon
Canadian firm Michael Green Architecture used materials such as mass plywood panels and cross-laminated timber to construct two mass timber buildings at an Oregon university. More
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Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design being built at Indiana University
A building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe nearly 70 years ago is under construction at Indiana University in the USA, over 50 years after the 20th-century architect's death. More
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Cobe reveals design for Gothenburg University Library with facade curved like book pages
Danish architecture studio Cobe has won the competition for the new University of Gothenburg library, with a design that evokes the pages of a book being opened. More
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Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel uses air-raid shelter as foundation for red daycare centre
A bold colour palette of red and green enlivens a new daycare centre in Stuttgart that has been built on top of an abandoned air-raid shelter. More
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Javier de las Heras Solé wraps Spanish music school in perforated metal skin
Architect Javier de las Heras Solé has completed a music school building in the northern Spanish town of Amorebieta-Etxano, featuring a concrete podium and facades clad in weathering-steel mesh that allows partial views of the interior. More
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Studio Dlux includes colourful playground in Brazilian school conversion
Architecture office Studio Dlux has converted a former events space in Curitiba into a school featuring a multicoloured playground and a ceiling that looks like a starry sky. More
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Commenter says Indian school is "the greatest architecture" they have seen
In this week's comments update, readers are wowed by an oval-shaped school for girls in India and sharing their views on other top stories. More
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Tautem and Bmc2 Architectes use monolithic forms to create concrete school in Marseille
French architecture studios Tautem and Bmc2 Architectes have built a concrete school in Marseille with sculptural features, skewed-geometric windows and colourful interiors. More
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Diana Kellogg Architects creates oval-shaped school in India's Thar Desert
New York-based studio Diana Kellogg Architects looked to symbols of femininity for its design of an oval-shaped all-girls' school in India made from local sandstone. More
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AL_A wraps University of Oxford buildings in etched glass and anodised aluminium
London-based architecture studio AL_A has designed two buildings for the University of Oxford that are wrapped in aluminium and etched glass to mimic stone and reflect the site's historic setting. More
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes riverside Tianjin Juilliard School in China
Four steel and concrete pavilions linked by glass bridges make up the Tianjin Juilliard School, which New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed in northeastern China. More
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Periods for Periods is a typeface of full stops to protest period poverty
A total of 140 designers from around the world including Pentagram's Giorgia Lupi have collaborated to produce a blood-red typeface made out of punctuation to highlight period poverty in American schools. More
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Aesthetic Lab adds pops of colour to all-white classroom in Taiwan
Architecture studio CloudForm Laboratory has transformed a classroom in a secondary school in Taiwan into a "blank canvas" for creative education.
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Snøhetta designs research facility for Ford on its Dearborn campus
Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled the design of the curved glass Central Campus Building for American car company Ford in Michigan. More
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Steel-and-glass "greenhouse" envelops existing buildings at Paddenbroek Education Centre
Jo Taillieu Architecten has transformed a former fruit farm in the Belgian village of Gooik into an educational centre featuring refurbished agricultural buildings enclosed within a greenhouse-like structure. More
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Triangular glass panels wrap Knight Center at the University of Oregon
A double-skin glass facade envelops the Knight Center, an Oregon research facility designed by American firms Ennead Architects and Bora Architecture & Interiors. More
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Malvína Day Nursery was designed to ease separation anxiety in young children
No Architects has incorporated plenty of windows, places to hide and varying floor levels into this welcoming nursery in the Czech capital of Prague. More
