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Major Academic Projects from around the World – Educational Built Environment
post updated 20 May 2023
Guide to School Buildings
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of School Building Designs. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed education buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary Education buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
We have 5 pages of School Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.
School Buildings : news + key projects (this page)
School Building Developments A-E
School Building Designs : F-K
School Architecture Designs : L-O
School Architecture : P-Z
School Building – Latest Designs
Education Architecture News arranged chronologically:
St Paul’s School Building, Brook Green, Hammersmith, West London, England – 16 Feb 2016
Design: John McAslan + Partners
image from architect
Transformative scheme for a major new building development at St Paul’s Girls’ School wins planning approval.
Albert Einstein High School, Bagnols sur Cèze, France – 4 Oct 2013
Design: NB Architectes
photo : Paul Kozlowski
The High School Albert Einstein, Brassens site, is a vast building of the 60’s. Built following a strict and repetitive pattern, it is composed of large linear buildings from 60 to 80 m length and large metallic workshops surrounded by large dilated and unattractive space. Site’s analysis shows several functional gaps. Today it is important to change establishment’s image by the way of idea and contemporary vision.
Montpelier Community Nursery, London, England – 10 Sep 2013
Design: AY Architects
photo : Nick Kane
The school takes the form of a pavilion opening on to a part-sheltered play area with a park beyond. The selection of materials is a key part of the scheme’s success. The black stained Siberian larch sits inconspicuously in the trees and contrasts with the white-washed internal woodwork.
Oasis Academy, north London, England – 9 Aug 2013
Design: John McAslan + Partners
photo © Hufton + Crow
This newly completed Oasis Academy Hadley, Enfield – a specialist Maths, ICT and Music school – has been designed as a highly sustainable building. Located on a former industrial site, the project sits at the heart of a wider urban regeneration plan.
St James Senior Girls’ School, London, England – 15 Jul 2013
Design: Squire and Partners
image from architect
Squire and Partners has won a competition to design a new sixth form facility for St James Senior Girls’ School in West London, providing an exemplary learning environment which facilitates a transition between secondary school and life as a young adult.
Paul Chevallier School Complex, Lyon, France
Design: Tectoniques Architects
photo : Renaud Araud
Paul Chevallier School Complex – 2 Jul 2013
The Paul Chevallier school complex is situated in Rillieux-la-Pape, a northern suburb of Lyon. At 5,034 m2, it is an unusually large project; and this indicates the growing attractiveness of the area. The complex currently comprises a nursery school and an elementary school.
Mouriz School Center, Paredes, northern Portugal
Design: CNLL
photo : Fernando Guerra
Mouriz School Center – 5 Jun 2013
This is a two-storey school center, including a kindergarten and an elementary school located in Mouriz, Paredes, Northern of Portugal. Formally the school was defined as a longitudinal volume.
Rivers Academy, London, England, UK
Design: Jonathan Clark Architects
image from architects
Rivers Academy Building – 22 May 2013
This is a new steel-framed single storey pavilion building with a cantilevered roof canopy. The main objective here was to add a completely new, modern and welcoming administration and reception area in front of the existing entrance to suit the size of the school today and better encourage parents to access the school and facilitate dealing with visitors.
Maria Grazia Cutuli Primary School, Afghanistan, Asia
Design: various architects
picture © AKAA / Nazes Afroz
Maria Grazia Cutuli School Building – 3 May 2013
This building has been shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.
St Paul’s School Science Building, London, England, UK
Design: Nicholas Hare Architects
photo : Alan Williams Photography
St Paul’s School Science Building – 29 Apr 2013
The science departments at St Paul’s School have just moved into their new building, which was handed over in January 2013. NHA were appointed in 2006 to develop the whole school masterplan proposed by architects Patel Taylor on its prominent riverside site in Barnes.
Trumpington Community College Building, Cambridge, England, UK
Design: Avanti Architects
image from architects studio
Trumpington Community College Building – 23 Apr 2013
Trumpington Community College will provide places for 750 students and be at the heart of Clay Farm, an urban extension to the south of Cambridge, as 4,000 new homes are built over the next decade. When the new five-form-entry school – which will specialise in science – opens in September 2015, students will be welcomed into a 21st century learning environment.
The Infinity Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design: McBride Charles Ryan
photo : John Gollings
The Infinity Centre – 22 Apr 2013
The idea of infinite learning became the mantra. Radiating out from the library, along the length of the form, are specialist precincts and a variety of learning spaces. Each wing of the building then returns to link up, forming cloisters and the resulting plan of an infinity symbol. Being structured around two protected courtyards has enhanced the learning space’s access to light, ventilation and view.
School Buildings
Key Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
A P Møller School, Germany
Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller
photo : Julian Weyer
A P Møller School
Bilger Breustedt school, Munich, Germany
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
image from Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Taufkirchen School
The Bridge Academy, Hackney, London, UK
BDP
image © Martine Hamilton Knight
The Bridge Academy
Evelyn Grace Academy, London, UK
Zaha Hadid Architects
photograph © Adrian Welch
Evelyn Grace Academy
Fuji Kindergarten, Japan
Tezuka Architects
building photograph : Katsuhisa Kida
Fuji Kindergarten
Hazelwood School, Glasgow, Scotland
gm+ad architects
photo : Andrew Lee
Hazelwood School
Michael Faraday Community School, UK
Alsop Sparch, Architects
photograph : Morley von Sternberg
Michael Faraday Community School
Nigel Peck Centre, Melbourne, Australia
John Wardle Architects
picture from architects
Melbourne School Building
School in Campinas, Brazil
UNA arquitetos
image : Nelson Kon
School in Campinas, São Paulo state
School in Paspels, Switzerland
Valerio Olgiati
building photo © Archive Olgiati
Paspels School Building
Thor Heyerdahl School, Larvik, Norway
Schmidt Hammer Lassen
picture from architects
Thor Heyerdahl School
Westminster Academy, London, UK
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)
photograph © Tim Soar
Westminster Academy Naim Dangoor Centre
More School Buildings online soon
Nursery School Buildings : Designs
picture from architect
Education Architectural Designs
Better School Design – Monthly Article for e-architect
photo : Article 25
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary School Architecture page welcome
