Tag School

15-01-2021

Archisbang+Areaprogetti: Redevelopment of Scuola Pascoli, Turin

Education as an ongoing function and enhancement of the historic heritage as a way to create a civic centre: these are the keys to redevelopment of Giovanni Pascoli school in Turin by Archisbang and Areaprogetti, winners of the “Torino Fa Scuola” competition.

05-01-2021

Starting the new year with an innovative new school by Homu

The year that has just ended has brought hard times for us all as the pandemic has turned our lives upside-down, ending on a hopeful note as a vaccine was approved, offering a starting point for building a new future. To wish you a better year in 2021 and start the new year together, Floornature’s editorial staff wish to take a look at a forward-looking project: an innovative school designed by architectural studio Homu, to be built in the Italian province of Macerata.

31-12-2020

The Best of Livegreenblog Sustainable Architecture 2020

We saw many cases of sustainable architecture in 2020, including offices, libraries, houses, pavilions and schools. Whether they adopt new technologies or opt for traditional solutions, the results are always aesthetically pleasing, and it all keeps down the impact of the building industry on our planet.

18-12-2020

A school like a town centre, Gallatin High School

Gallatin High School in Bozeman, Montana, was designed by architecture firm Cushing Terrell and accommodates 1500 students. That’s a lot of people, and it suggests the analogy with a town where the life of the community rotates around the various arteries of the centre, a concept which the architects also embraced.

16-12-2020

Xaveer De Geyter Architects: 195 Melopee School in Ghent

Part of OMA’s masterplan, 195 Melopee School is a modular steel and glass structure in Ghent’s Old Dockyards. Its light, open architecture breaks away with the concept of a curtain of buildings along the canal to promote the building’s relationship with the neighbourhood around it.

18-11-2020

The winners of the “Italian Architect” and “Young Talent of Italian Architecture” Awards 2020

The winners of the annual prizes awarded by the National Council of Italian Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Heritage Preservers and by the network of provincial orders were recently announced. The award ceremony will take place in January during the “Festa dell'architetto” event. The 2020 edition of the traditional “Architetto italiano 2020” (Italian Architect) and Giovane talento dell’Architettura italiana 2020”“ (Young Talent of Italian Architecture) awards focused on the “school” theme and, this year, were fittingly paired with the special award titled “(Ri)progettare la scuola con le nuove generazioni post Covid-19” ((Re)designing the school with the new post Covid-19 generations).

09-10-2020

Dominique Coulon: ‘Olympe de Gouges’ school in Gidy, France

The ‘Olympe de Gouges’ Group of Schools in Gidy, in the Loiret department of France, was commissioned by the municipality as a way of coping with the recent increase in the population. The design by Dominique Coulon, winner of a competition, emphasises the boundary as well as the relationship between the town and the countryside.

05-10-2020

Bovenbouw Architectuur designs a kindergarten in Edegem, Belgium

The Bovenbouw Architectuur firm has designed a new kindergarten in Edegem (Belgium). A brick building characterised by clean, well-defined lines and a contemporary style, fitting harmoniously into the dense urban fabric of the Belgian city and taking up the architectural elements of the façades of nearby buildings.

18-09-2020

Mario Cucinella - “School at the Fair” in Bologna

For 1600 students in Bologna the first day of school reserved a particular surprise. In Italy, the new school year began on September 14 and in Bologna, the first and only case in Italy, an experimental project was brought to life: Pavilion 34 of the Bologna exhibition centre was modified based on a project designed by architect Mario Cucinella to accommodate 75 classrooms.