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We feature a selection of the best new educational building designs around the world, by respected designers.
“Projects grow out of their site” is the credo – or even a doxa – of Christian Charignon, founder of the Tekhnê architectural firm. This is proven by the gymnasium in Saint Martin en Haut in the Lyon area – an imposing box, 45 m long by 25 m wide and 10 m high.
Design: Allen Jack+Cottier, architects. This school building for the International Grammar School in Ultimo, Sydney, celebrates the joy and excitement of discovery and learning for the young students, who have absolutely fallen in love with it.
Binh Duong, a new city which is 30 minutes away from Ho Chi Minh City, has a typical tropical climate all year round. The site is located in the middle of a flourishing forest with a wide variety of green and fruits, running rampant.
The Druk White Lotus School, designed by Arup Associates, has jointly won the Inspiring Design – International Award at the British Council for School Environments 2009 Awards.
Opus 5 is a French architecture company, based in Paris, working on both the design of contemporary buildings and on the renovation of important historical edifices mixing patrimony and modernity
The construction of the new Ben Wyvis primary school in Scotland has been undertaken by Barr Construction on behalf of the Highland Council with the objective of meeting the highest standards of teaching accommodation, site facilities and sustainability.
CEIP Josep Guinovart, Catalunya: Castelldefels school, Catalan education development design by Pich-Aguilera Architects – the proposed implementation of the project responds clearly to the specific characteristics of the site.
The competition asks for a big school in Allscwhil, a low density residential zone, in the only free spot of a certain dimension in the area.
The new building of the Calvijn Christian comprehensive school in Barendrecht, designed by Mecanoo architects, celebrated its topping out. The 9,000 square-metre Calvijn Groene Hart site offers all forms of secondary-school education for roughly 1,250 pupils. The school building will come into use at the beginning of 2013.
Three buildings celebrate the spirit of education, unfolding as a sequence of spaces for learning, socializing, and gathering: a new Sixth Form block, a remodelled Victorian vicarage, and a new assembly block which links to a sequence of other smaller external social areas.
A team led by Balfour Beatty, with Jestico + Whiles as architect, has won a design competition for the new Durand Academy Upper School. The project, a state secondary boarding school for 600 students, will create all through education at Durand Academy for students who begin their education on the school’s existing South London site.
The original school was designed Lutyens and is listed Grade II*. Any change of any kind was going to be controversial and 17 redevelopment schemes have previously been rejected
At the patio of the Infant School ´La Herradura´ a new organic landscape grows against the rigid tipology of the original building, opposed and superimposed.
This is an elementary school project to be layered by different kinds of learning and playing spaces vertically like “a small hill”. The scheme is to create a rich environment in which children freely gather to “a hill” and discover their preferred place learning together.
Singapore International School (Hong Kong) – Secondary School Campus: the project demonstrates a successful design approach with an agenda premised on sustainable redevelopment and renewal.
The new Collège des Tuillières is an integral part of an urban environment with an architecture inspired by Le Corbusier’s “Radiant city”.
The Royal High School Bath, Cranwell House design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, UK: Junior Department planning permission & listed building consent