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09-01-2019

STEPS, dance academy in Panama City

The Panama-based architecture firm SKETCH, founded by Johann Wolfschoon has turned the top floor of an industrial shed in Panama City into a dance academy with studio rooms for dance and other dance-related disciplines as well as changing rooms.

13-12-2018

A bioclimatic gym in Abidjan by Koffi & Diabaté Architectes

The gymnasium at Blaise Pascal High School in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Koffi & Diabaté Architectes, founded by Guillaume Koffi and Issa Diabaté, won the award for the best sports building built at the 2018 World Architecture Festival.

28-11-2018

RIBA International Prize 2018 goes to Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum’s Children Village

RIBA has named Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum’s Children Village the world’s best new building. The project was recently awarded the 2018 RIBA International Prize, after receiving the 2018 RIBA Award for International Excellence and being named RIBA International Emerging Architect of 2018 in the spring.

21-11-2018

Architecture for childhood: BIG designs the first WeGrow school

BIG and WeWork designed the first WeGrow school in New York City, in which architecture serves a new conscientious approach to education for children aged three to nine.

24-10-2018

b720 Fermín Vázquez: Lycée Français Maternelle in Barcelona

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed the new Lycée Français Maternelle in the Bonanova district north of Barcelona. The lot on which two historic early twentieth-century villas once stood now hosts a new building with multi-coloured walls of timber and metal.

05-09-2018

Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés, La Plaine Saint Denis High-School

The project by studio Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés, in the southern part of Saint Denis and, specifically, in the Montjoie urban development zone, represented a double challenge for the studio. Indeed, it was both an urban and an architectural challenge, due to its size and to the programme carried out, that combines a high school and a student boarding house.

24-08-2018

WORKac, Edible Schoolyard P.S. 216 in New York

In the run-up to the fourth encounter of The Architects Series at SpazioFMGperl’architettura, Milan on 13 September, with Dan Wood, who co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, WORKac with Amale Andraos, here is one of their really green projects - a schoolyard garden with greenhouse and kitchen at the Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

09-08-2018

Elisa Valero wins the sixth edition of the Swiss Architectural Award

Spanish architect Elisa Valero is the first woman to win the Swiss Architectural Award, on the occasion of the sixth edition of the biennial prize sponsored by the Swiss Architectural Foundation. In its previous editions, the prize was won by architects Junya Ishigami, José María Sánchez García, Studio Mumbai, Diébédo Francis Kéré and Solano Benítez.