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03-10-2022

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022: Here are the winners

The six winning projects of the 2022 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious architectural awards, were announced on 22 September in Geneva. This accolade rewards both the designers as well as the clients and communities for whom the work was created; the six winners will share a million-dollar prize.

28-09-2022

Diana Kellogg Architects: Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls’ School, India

Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls' School in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan abounds in symbols intended to overcome the prejudice against women’s right to education. New York architect Diana Kellogg sees the project as a turning point in her career, opening up to the world of non-profit architecture.

19-09-2022

Dominique Coulon Moulon School Group in Gif-sur-Yvette

In Gif-sur-Yvette, a French town less than 30 km from Paris, the new Moulon school complex designed by architect Dominique Coulon and his firm has been built. The project, which the architect himself called a very stimulating experience, is part of the master plan created by the XDGA agency and landscape architect Michel Desvignes.

13-09-2022

DAAZ Office Jadgal Elementary School Iran

The project designed by DAAZ Office in Seyyed Bar, Iran, is the result of a participatory study supported by all the village inhabitants who invited the commissioning NGO to build a school that could become a centre of sustainable development for the whole community. The project was selected as one of the finalists for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

01-06-2022

Rethinking a schoolyard, Taktik Design

The Canadian Taktik Design studio has redesigned the exterior schoolyard of Collège Saint-Paul, a high school near Montreal renowned for its sporting vocation. Now the courtyard houses new functions in line with the students' and the community's needs and improves the use of the open spaces.

26-05-2022

Sports hall designed by CONSEQUENCE FORMA

The Czech architecture firm, CONSEQUENCE FORMA, has designed a new sports hall in the town of Nový Hrozenkov, in the Czech Republic. The sports hall is not only a place dedicated to sports activities, but also a multifunctional space for the local community, built to maximise the building's energy efficiency and sustainability.

11-05-2022

Büro B Architekten: kindergarten in Rain school campus, Ittigen

Büro B designed Rain, a new kindergarten in Ittigen, north of Berne, as part of the “Green Belt” system. The prefabricated timber building is a place of discovery offering quality spaces for children; the structure and installations are Minergie-P and MuKEn certified.

04-05-2022

AFF Architekten designs Albert Schweitzer School in Wiesbaden

The Albert Schweitzer school, recently built in a residential area in the Mainz-Kostheim district, in Wiesbaden, Germany, was designed by the AFF Architekten studio. The architects needed to work in an extremely heterogeneous and fragmented context, characterised in large part by buildings originally constructed in the 1970s.

25-04-2022

Lacube architectes Sainte Trinité school campus in Marseilles

Lacube architectes has completed the renovation and expansion of Sainte Trinité, a school in Marseilles. The architects have restored functional consistency to the project as a whole and improved the quality of the environment in a project that aims to make the most of the site’s potential with overall renewal of the entire school complex for students from primary school to senior secondary school.