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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Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer
Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. More
Geometric brick-clad boarding house by MICA references its traditional neighbours
British architecture studio MICA has completed a boarding house in the grounds of Stowe School in England, featuring an assemblage of pale-brick volumes including a cylindrical tower and glazed bridge. More
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Walters & Cohen combines fluted stone and glass at London's American School
Fluted stone panels form a frame around a huge window in the facade of this building designed by Walters & Cohen Architects for the American School in London. More
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Charles Tashima Architecture creates cabinet of curiosities inside school science laboratory
A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. More
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Brexit and education policy combine to create "talent crisis" in UK design
Brexit: the UK government's education policy has come under attack from two different design bodies, with claims students are being "actively discouraged" from studying design. More
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Drop in number of UK children studying creative subjects could trigger skills shortage
The Creative Industries Federation has warned that the UK could face a creative skills shortage, after the latest GCSE results revealed a drop of almost 10 per cent in students studying Design and Technology. More
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Bartlett head calls for new models of education to protect future UK architects
The head of one of the world's top architecture schools has called for an overhaul of architecture education and accreditation in the UK following new statistics about the high rate of mental health issues among students. More
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Bad UK school design is wasting £150 million each year, claims RIBA
Substandard UK schools are wasting millions, fostering bad behaviour in pupils, and causing one in five teachers to consider leaving their post, claims a new report from the Royal Institute of British Architects. More
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Asif Khan adds elevated wooden play area to east London primary school
To provide children at this primary school with more room to play, London designer Asif Khan has created a stilted structure that stands two metres above the playground (+ slideshow). More
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Hawkins\Brown designs pool that will give the sense of "swimming amongst the trees"
A cross-laminated timber roof covers this six-lane swimming pool, which London firm Hawkins\Brown plans to add to a school in Surrey (+ slideshow). More
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School dining hall by De Rosee Sa and PMR recreates Fantastic Mr Fox's underground village
A rainbow-coloured facade shaped like a row of houses fronts this school dining hall in southeast England, designed by UK studios De Rosee Sa and PMR to reference the stories of Roald Dahl (+ slideshow). More
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Squire and Partners celebrates craftsmanship with school design and technology workshop
London firm Squire and Partners has revived traditional building techniques and combined them with contemporary details to create a workshop for a school in south-east England (+ slideshow). More
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Mulroy Architects completes timber-clad rowing centre for Oxford school
A pool with a stationary boat on top is the centrepiece of this rowing centre designed by Mulroy Architects for a private boarding school in Oxfordshire, England (+ movie). More
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Satellite Architects adds a new cookery school to the River Cottage headquarters
A cookery school is housed behind the glazed facade of this contemporary shed, recently completed by Satellite Architects at the headquarters of British TV programme River Cottage (+ slideshow). More
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Hawkins\Brown finds musical references for timber-clad school recital hall
British firm Hawkins\Brown has added a music school and boarding house to a school in Surrey, England, featuring sandy coloured brickwork and timber screens that reference musical annotation (+ slideshow). More
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Angular brick gables frame Kings College Library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop
Mottled red brickwork was used to build the gabled walls of this English school library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop, who more recently completed a humanities building for a historic school elsewhere in the country (+ slideshow). More
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Well-designed schools improve learning by 25 percent says new study
News: well-designed classrooms can improve the academic performance of primary school pupils by 25 percent according to a new study undertaken by the University of Salford and UK architects Nightingale Associates. More
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Cornelius Vermuyden School by Nicholas Hare Architects
London studio Nicholas Hare Architects used a palette of yellow brick, bronzed aluminium and unfinished timber to construct this secondary school in Essex, England (+ slideshow). More
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The UK can "learn lessons from school-building in Brazil" - Aberrant Architecture
News: following this week's news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture's Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
