Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Called Het 4e Gymnasium, the modular building has a square plan constructed around an internal courtyard and features a wooden façade, interrupted by coloured aluminium panels. The courtyard is the heart of the school providing an easy circulation rout..
The Barcelona architecture firm XV Studio has shared with us their proposal for the new Angola Central Highlands University, where they were a part of the four team short list for the international competition. Proposal images and the architects description after the break. TRACING LUSONA PATTERNS AROUND THE POOLS OF LIGHT “Learning, a young boy enjoys making sand drawings with his fingers… thes..
While Louis Kahn was designing the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh in 1962, he was approached by an admiring Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi, to design the 60 acre campus for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Much like his project in Bangladesh, he was faced with a culture enamored in tradition, as well as an arid desert climate. For Kahn, the design of the inst..
Architects: Specht Harpman Location: Austin, Texas, USA Project Team: Scott Specht, Louise Harpman, Sarah Gamble, Erica Quinones, Brett Wolfe MEP Engineering: Energy Engineering Associates Structural Engineering: Architectural Engineers Collaborative Civil Engineering: Urban Design Group Landscape Architecture: Sasaki Associates, Inc. in association with RVI Inc. Contractor: VRW Construction Com..
Architects: Henning Larsen Architects Location: Frederiksberg, Denmark Client: Copenhagen Business School Project Area: 3,800 sqm Project Year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Kontraframe The new study universe at the CBS Campus – formerly home of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory in Frederiksberg – is the result of Henning Larsen Architects winning 1st prize in an invited competition. The assig..
Onat ÖKTEM and Ziya İMREN have receievd an Honorable Mention in the Middle East Technical University Student Center & Public Square Architectural Competition. They have shared their competition entry with us... The main concept of the design is to create an in-between condition between a built environment and the landscape. The inner and outer spaces flow into each other in an historical site wh..
Architects: Mayslits Kassif Architects Location: Arlozorov Street, Tel Aviv, Israel Design Team: Udi Kassif, Ganit Mayslits Kassif, Maor Roytman Program: A mixed use building containing kindergarten cluster and municipal welfare offices. Client: The Tel Aviv-Yafo Economic Development Authority Ltd. Site Area: 6,000 sqm Built Area: 3,000 sqm Budget: $5,000,000 Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Iwan..
Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. It is built around a central courtyard onto which all the classrooms open. Communal spaces such as corridors are scattered with multicoloured light while the windows in classrooms are colourless. Photographs are by Fernando Alda. The following inf..
client: The municipality of Kolding place: Vonsild, Denmark year: 2009 function: Design Kindergarten size: 13,500sqm commission: Competition _1st.prize from cebra
Architect: DLR Group Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Owner: Phoenix Union High School District #210 Engineer: DLR Group Contractor: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Project Year: 2007 Area: 345,000 SF; 51 Acres Photographs: Mark Boisclair Challenge Adapt a school district’s commitment to the Small Schools Movement within a new 2,400 student urban high school. Beginning in 2000, the Phoenix Union High..