Contaminar Arquitetos designs concrete and cork school in Portugal
Cork-clad concrete canopies cover large outdoor gathering spaces at a primary school on the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal, designed by local practice Contaminar Arquitetos. More
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Plant-covered mesh panels surround preschool in Vietnam by HGAA
Screens of metal mesh allow plants to climb up the walls of this steel-framed school in Ha Long City by Vietnamese studio HGAA, which has been shortlisted in the civic building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. More
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EBBA Architects builds Construction Skills School using only reusable components
EBBA Architects has used hundreds of pieces of timber to give identity to a set of repurposed cabins, creating a temporary education centre with a reversible design. More
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ReVærk's all-timber school building in Denmark is a lesson in natural construction
Danish studio ReVærk has completed House of Nature, a school building designed to promote learning about nature through its traditional timber structure and wooden shingles, which has been shortlisted in the civic building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. More
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Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designs music school with patterned concrete walls
Architecture office Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has completed a music school in Bressanone, Italy, comprising monolithic concrete volumes decorated with a subtle hand-hammered pattern. More
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Education
Education
Chilean school by Sebastián Irarrázaval takes cues from a walled citadel
Clusters of buildings enclosed by a tall, white wall form an educational campus for children with disabilities that was designed by Chilean studio Sebastián Irarrázaval Arquitectos. More
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Barozzi Veiga designs reflective university building at London's Design District
Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga has completed an aluminium-clad building for Ravensbourne University London at the Design District in Greenwich. 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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Open Architecture designs Shanghai school to be more like a village than a megastructure
An eclectic mix of buildings form the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School, designed by Chinese studio Open Architecture to promote a richer and more varied learning experience. More
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Comments update
Comments update
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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Henning Larsen begins construction on sustainable school with walkable roof
Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has broken ground on The New School, a primary school in Sundby that will be the first in Denmark to be given a Nordic Ecolabel. 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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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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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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Outdoor classrooms to play key role in "pandemic-proof" school in Peru
Architecture firms Rosan Bosch Studio and IDOM have developed a school for a campus in Lima, Peru, in which teaching will take place in both indoor and outdoor classrooms. More
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Wulf Architekten creates school sports centre with zigzag roof informed by the Alps
Wulf Architekten has created a sports centre for a school in Überlingen, Germany with a lattice facade and a folding zigzag roof that was informed by the mountains of the surrounding Alps. More
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Maccreanor Lavington adds timber dining hall with "sense of grandeur" to west London school
UK architecture studio Maccreanor Lavington has added a dining hall with a diamond-shaped glued-laminated timber structure to the Ibstock Place School in Roehampton, west London. More
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Ten sustainable architecture proposals by SUTD students
Sustainable Design for a Better World is the theme on which students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design based the projects in this school show, tackling issues like wildfire resilience, land scarcity and electronic waste. More
