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24-02-2021

UAD presents the international campus of Zhejiang University in China

UAD is an architecture firm founded within Zhejiang University itself in 1953. It has over 1400 employees, some of whom have recently designed and built the university’s new international campus. The campus - situated between Lake Juanhu and a lagoon park - is designed in a neoclassical style which tends to vary from one block of buildings to the next, with the dark red brick as the common characteristic element connecting them all. A multifunctional space of excellence where students and professors alike can live and pursue their studies and research.

04-02-2021

Chapuis Royer Architectes Diderot University Restaurant Grenoble Campus

Chapuis Royer Architectures designed Diderot University Restaurant for the institution’s Grenoble campus, home to a number of emblematic architectural projects dating back to the early 1960s which are now protected twentieth-century heritage sites. The new building fits into this context with the intention of enriching the area’s architectural vocabulary and reinforcing the dialogue between existing buildings on the site.

14-01-2021

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati designs new science campus at University of Milan

The new campus, which will house the University of Milan’s scientific departments, will be built inside the so-called MIND-Milano Innovation District, located within the former Expo 2015 site. The architectural concept was designed by the CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati architecture firm for the Australian Lendlease real estate group, whom the University’s Board of Directors entrusted with the entire process of building and managing the campus.

13-01-2021

Zaha Hadid Architects designs a Student Residence at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Architecture firm Zaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with Leigh & Orange Limited, designed the new Student Residence for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The complex will house over 1,500 students and will become an example of the combination between advanced digital design, sustainable construction techniques and long-term operational strategies. The project is expected to be completed in 2023.

07-01-2021

Josep Ferrando Architecture, Sáenz Valiente building, UTDT Buenos Aires

Catalan architecture firm Josep Ferrando has realized the new Sáenz Valiente building for the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With its very clean lines, this mixed-use building won in two categories of the international FAD 2020 awards, one of the most important recognitions for architecture on the Iberian Peninsula. It was also certified with LEED Gold green building rating.

11-11-2020

BIG designs The Village - Hopkins Student Center, Baltimore

The Village will be a new student centre at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Campus in Baltimore. The international design competition closed recently and a special evaluation committee including students, faculty and staff from the famous American university chose the project submitted by architectural studio BIG.

16-10-2020

Kruchin Arquitetura designs new building and parking-lot at the UDF University Centre in Brasília (Brazil)

The expansion works of the UDF University Centre campus in Brasília (Brazil), designed by the Kruchin Arquitetura firm, played an important educational role even before the works were completed, starting in the construction phase. Students enrolled in Architecture, Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Law courses, in fact, had the opportunity to take part in technical visits and to take a close look at certain aspects of the project and its realisation, putting into practice the theory learned in class.

14-10-2020

Qarta architektura: Auditorium of the College of Polytechnics, Jihlava

With the new auditorium of the College of Polytechnics in Jihlava (VŠPJ), Czech Republic, Qarta architektura has expressed the modern idea of cultural community through a reflection on the concept of architectural decoration. The dialogical relationship with the building - formerly a communist court and now the location of the Polytechnic - plays a central role.