Tag University

23-11-2016

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Columbia Manhattanville Campus

Two new buildings have been completed for Columbia University’s Manhattanville Campus on an abandoned industrial site on the island of Manhattan, New York. The Lenfest Center for the Arts and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, are due to open in the spring of 2017.

22-11-2016

SWBI Architects Adobe Campus Noida India

Maximising energy conservation and minimising ecological footprint are the keys to SWBI Architects’s new research and development centre in Noida, India designed for American multinational Adobe Systems.

18-11-2016

Grafton Architects UTEC University Campus in Lima, Peru

The new UTEC - Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia faculty in Lima, Peru, designed by Grafton Architects with Shell Arquitectos is an innovative form of university construction: a concrete vertical campus, a composition of volumes permeable to the city, light and air.

19-10-2016

MADE Associati’s Elena Lucrezia Cornaro School Campus

An elementary school surrounded by open fields, in close contact with the agricultural vocation of the land. This is a good description of MADE Associati of Treviso’s school campus, designed for children and the environment: an example well worth following.

30-09-2016

The finalists for the RIBA Stirling Prize

An art gallery or a library? A housing complex or a private home? A university campus or a school for civil servants? Who will win the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize? The winner will not be announced until October 6, but let’s take a look at some of the projects shortlisted for the prestigious prize that have been covered in Floornature.

22-09-2016

Brian MacKay-Lyons and Shobac, architectural workshop

Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited has been working since 1998 on what we could call a kind of architectural testing ground to explore ideas of form, materiality and building at Shobac farm in Nova Scotia, Canada.

16-09-2016

Architecture for education

The start of the new school year offers a great opportunity to look at school and university campus projects presented in Floornature.