Skip to content Third Space, Udaipur Photographer Timothy Soar shares his photographs – and his impressions – of Third Space in Udaipur by Studio SAAR, a vibrant cultural and educational hub born from the belief that communities deserve places of aspiration, not as a luxury, but as a birthright. There are buildings that stand in […]
A new library is the first move in alma-nac’s reworking of the Junior and Lower School campus at London’s Dulwich College. Former pupil Ken Okonkwo explains how the project embeds net zero principles, reflects the school’s culture of curiosity and collaboration, and has doubled the number of borrowed library books. Photos Jack Hobhouse Dulwich College […]
Skip to content Harcourt Terrace Primary School tún Architects have designed a new primary school in the southside of Dublin that introduces a new kind of flexible learning to inner city schools. AT hears from David Jameson and Rose Bonner, co-founders of tún alongside Paul Fox, about what they’ve been up to since. Photos Ste […]
Bovenbouw Architectuur and David Kohn Architects have remodelled an 18th-century Flemish religious community complex into the University of Hasselt’s architecture faculty and a new public space. Words Bie Plevoets Photos Stijn Bollaert Although the history of the beguines in Hasselt, Belgium, stretches back to the 13th century, the present-day beguinage has its origin in 1707. […]
Skip to content University of Gloucestershire City Campus ADP Architects have transformed Gloucester’s landmark Art Deco Debenhams into a new home for the University of Gloucestershire and the city’s central library. Photos Paul Karalius ADP Architects has completed the complex retrofit of a landmark Art Deco Debenhams building in the centre of Gloucester. Phase one […]
Skip to content Dispatches: Simon Reid, Lungfish Architects Lungfish Managing Director Simon Reid tells AT about the trouble with corridors and dragonflies, the secret of successful Forest Schools and the importance of swapping school shoes for wellington boots. What is Lungfish? We’re an interdisciplinary design team that started out as the design arm of the […]
A multifunctional education and events building for the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome, by Italian studios Labics and Topotek 1, integrates public space and landscape in the first phase of a thirty-year development plan. Photos Aldo Amoretti & Filippo Romano Working with Topotek 1, Labics has completed the CuBo (Cultural Box) building, a flexible education […]
The Greenhill Building Chris Dyson Architects’ teaching and events building for Harrow Arts Centre’s London campus draws on the site’s legacy of agricultural buildings to deliver a flexible space that complements the Grade-II listed Gothic Elliott Hall. Photographs David Churchill Chris Dyson Architects has completed its competition-winning design for a new teaching and events building […]
BDR bureau’s recently completed Sforzacosta Preschool in Macerata, Italy, is designed to foster social interaction and spatial exploration. Photos Federico Farinatti, courtesy of BDR bureau Designed by Turin-based practice BDR bureau, the 530-square-metre preschool forms part of a larger scheme to revitalise an existing education facility in Macerata, Italy. Located on a small constrained plot, the […]
Manalo & White and Richard Lyndon Design have completed a new learning environment tailored for deaf and visually impaired students at the St Albans-based Heathlands School. Photos Rachel Ferriman Heathlands School, the UK’s largest school for deaf children, has expanded its St Albans campus with the opening of a new building designed specifically for students […]
AT chats to… Michael Pawlyn about post-apocalyptic London, the Regenerative Architecture Index and encouraging clients to focus on their long-term legacy. What is Exploration working on at the moment? We’ve got some really nice clients. We’re working for Vivobarefoot, who make shoes, and in addition to being very committed to regenerative design they are committed […]
AT chats to… Anna Lisa McSweeney about educating politicians, the Regenerative Architecture Index and why every practice has a part to play. What’s happening at Architects Declare? It’s a really exciting time. There has been the appearance of dormancy, but there’s been all this stuff bubbling away in the background and it suddenly feels as […]