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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.

21-07-2020

Berger+Parkkinen Associated Architects designs new Pharmaceutical Institute and Laboratory building in Salzburg

The Berger+Parkkinen Associated Architects studio has designed a new building for the Paracelsus Private Medical University (PMU) in Salzburg. It is the so-called House D, where the laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Institute are located. The building was recently completed, built a few steps away from House C, a project that the Berger+Parkkinen Associated Architects studio completed in 2013 for the Austrian university. The two buildings create an interesting architectural interaction and the characteristics they share make them immediately recognisable as part of the same campus, even if they are located on opposite sides of the road.

08-05-2020

O'Donnell + Tuomey design Central European University in Budapest

The ongoing pandemic has resulted in exhibitions and events, such as the RIBA International Prize, being postponed. Waiting for the 2021 edition, let’s look back at one of the finalists of the last edition: the project designed by architecture firm O'Donnell + Tuomey for the first construction phase of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. The project was the recipient of several awards including, among others, the Women in Architecture Awards Architect of the Year 2019, which went to architect Sheila O'Donnell.

01-05-2020

Green university in Pisa by Heliopolis 21

A zero-impact building for SR1938 university campus in Pisa by Heliopolis 21

22-04-2020

Giuseppe Tortato Architetti creates the Interior Design project for Campus Certosa

The Giuseppe Tortato Architetti firm designed the restyling project of the Campus Certosa complex in Milan. The goal was to modernise the overall image of the campus, providing the external façades of the main building with a new look, to then proceed with the indoor spaces. For the interior design project, architects completely reorganised the students’ dorms, together with the reception, common and meeting areas, in order to ensure the greater well-being of those who spend time in these spaces.

20-04-2020

Piuarch’s Human Technopole Campus research building on the former Expo site in Milan

Piuarch, the architectural practice founded by Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini and Monica Tricario, won the international design contest held by Fondazione Human Technopole and Arexpo for the former Expo site in Milan, where the Human Technopole Campus will be built: a new research facility, ten floors high with 35,000 square metres of floor space where cutting-edge laboratories and technologies will be available to scientists about three years from now.

15-04-2020

John Ronan Architects designs the Ed Kaplan Family Institute in Chicago

The headquarters of the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship is a new open and bright building designed by architecture firm John Ronan Architects in the heart of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, an iconic project by Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe. The project is one of the eight recipients of the annual Architecture Awards 2020 handed out by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

05-09-2019

IDOM Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit Senegal

In Senegal, the Spanish firm IDOM has designed an extension for Alioune Diop University, drawing inspiration from the natural surroundings and using conventional low-energy construction techniques and bioclimatic strategies. The project was selected among the finalists of the 2019 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has recently won the 2019 COAVN Award in the category Arquitectura y Urbanismo Extraterritorial.