Tag Schools & Universities

27-01-2021

“La Festa dell’Architetto” and school architecture as a project for the future

The 2020 edition of the "Festa dell’Architetto", postponed due to the pandemic, takes place with live streaming January 27 through 29, 2021. Organised by Italy’s National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists (Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori or CNAPPC) and the country’s network of provincial orders of architects, the event promotes the culture of design and underlines architecture’s social function. The CNAPPC’s virtual museum will be inaugurated during the event, and the awards for “Architetto italiano” (Italian Architect), “ Giovane Talento dell'Architettura Italiana” (Young Talent in Italian Architecture) and a Special Prize entitled “(Ri)progettare la scuola con le nuove generazioni post Covid-19 ” ((Re)designing the school with the new post Covid-19 generations) will be awarded.

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.

25-12-2020

BIG’s glass and timber Student Centre for Johns Hopkins University

Construction of the new Hopkins Student Centre is due to begin in 2022 and be completed in 2024. The glass and timber structure has earned the building the nickname “the beach next door”

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.

11-12-2020

BCKJ Architects wins the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award

The Chinese BCKJ Architects studio, founded by architects Dong Mei and Liu Xiaochuan, is the winner of the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award promoted by Britain's Royal Academy of Arts. The award jury, chaired by architect Norman Foster, selected the BCKJ Architects studio from a shortlist of four finalists which, in addition to the winner, included the AAU Anastas, AOR Architects and WHBC Architects studios. This year, the Royal Academy of Arts also recognised architect Cristina Iglesias, who was selected as the winner of the 2020 RA Architecture Prize.

19-11-2020

Zero Energy Design Lab Boys’ Hostel Block at St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management

Boys’ Hostel Block at St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management in Gurugram, India is a fluid sequence of functional, environmentally sustainable spaces. Under the leadership of architect Sachin Rastogi, Zero Energy Design Lab reinterprets Indian vernacular architecture in view of today’s needs and construction techniques to come up with a meticulously designed project that obtains its character from the basic building block: the brick.

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.