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.

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.

11-09-2020
Reinforced curved brick façade
An old building restored and expanded with classic technologies is given a new brick and glass façade