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Snøhetta’s antler-shaped Reindeer Husbandry School takes form in Norway

January 10, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has shared construction photos of Čoarvemátta, an angular educational facility nearing completion in Norway’s Sápmi region. Čoarvemátta is being designed by Snøhetta on the outskirts of central Kautokeino for Sámi National Theater Beaivváš and Sámi High School and Reindeer Husbandry School, which are two important institutions in the area that has traditionally

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Civic Architects and VDNDP “embrace imperfections” for retrofit at Dutch university

January 3, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The “ruin-like” concrete frame of a former chemistry laboratory has been transformed into a series of workspaces for the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, in this project by Civic Architects and VDNDP. Providing a new home for the International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences (ITC), the building was designed to be a “sustainable symbol”

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Dezeen Awards China architecture project of the year “opens up new possibilities”

December 14, 2023 Amina Amber 0

A school with colourful volumes and sinuous curves by Trace Architecture Office won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Architecture project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. The studio picked up the prize at the inaugural Dezeen Awards China 2023 party earlier this week, which took place at the Neri&Hu-designed Sukhothai hotel

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JEB acoustic partitions and furniture create modern campus for UOW College Hong Kong

December 14, 2023 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: acoustic partitions and furniture brand JEB have provided interior solutions for the University of Wollongong’s new Tai Wai campus in Hong Kong, which aims to create an adaptable learning environment. The University of Wollongong (UOW) College Hong Kong campus in Tai Wai covers 15,000 square metres and supports 3,300 students with modern facilities including

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Studio Gang nestles Kresge College expansion in Pacific forest

December 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the

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Robotically woven fibres wrap university building for textiles in Germany

December 11, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

A web of glass and carbon fibres envelops Texoversum, a university building for textiles that architecture studios Allmannwappner and Menges Scheffler Architekten have created in Germany. Located in the city of Reutlingen, Texoversum forms part of the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences campus expansion and contains offices, workshops, a university store, collaboration areas and a

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Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

November 28, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. The Walker Hall project involved transforming a “vacant, seismically unsafe building” on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern

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Page\Park brings “external living room” to University of Stirling

November 23, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

A university building by architecture studio Page\Park, which is shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award, is the focus of this video produced by Stephenson&. It is the final film in a series published by Dezeen this month with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), spotlighting the award’s 2023

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Jones Studio designs education centre to show “preciousness” of water in Arizona

November 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture firm Jones Studio has designed an educational centre in Arizona with the aim of raising awareness about water resources and infrastructure in the region. The Water Education Center will form part of a Central Arizona Project (CAP) facility north of Phoenix and highlight the “contested topic of water in the west”, according to Jones

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OMA to expand Seoul university with cluster of buildings and courtyards

November 21, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

A cluster of buildings and courtyards that act as “a natural extension” of a mountain will define this campus expansion, which Dutch studio OMA is creating for Hongik University in Seoul. The extension is being developed by OMA to simultaneously increase the amount of teaching facilities for the South Korean university and its available green

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