Robarts Library University of Toronto building

Robarts Library University of Toronto building

The new building design by Diamond Schmitt Architects brings daylight and views to a five-storey, glass-enclosed addition. The original concept for Robarts Library included three pods surrounding the core of the library.

Cowan Court Cambridge Building

Cowan Court Cambridge building

Design: 6a architects. This new hall of residence captures much of the ethos behind the original design for Churchill College but gives us a bold and extremely well thought through contemporary interpretation of it.

Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages

Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages Jinghu Campus

Architects: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design

From the idea of materialisation of paradise to the design concept of simplism, the design of the library blends together oriental and western design philosophies to offer the readers a wonderful reading space.

Byron House Nottingham Trent University

Byron House Nottingham Trent University building facade cladding

Students had to move from buildings at Nottingham Trent University after similar cladding to the Grenfell Tower was discovered. Three of seven blocks at Byron House student accommodation reportedly use Reynobond ACM PE panels for building cladding.

GSA Student Accommodation Spain

GSA Student Accommodation

Design: Javier Aguilar Viyuela. GSA, the global student accommodation leader, announces that it has acquired a Spanish student accommodation portfolio, operating business and brand

Embodied Computation Lab Princeton University

Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab | www.e-architect.com

Design: The Living, Architects – commissioned by Princeton University, this lab is a simple but futuristic building hosting research on the future of buildings. Just as biologists use an electron microscope to study organisms, architects will use this structure to study buildings and construction systems.

44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields: LSE Design Competition

Paul Marshall Building Competition Winner - Grafton Architects

Dublin-based architecture practice Grafton Architects wins unanimous approval for a £100m redevelopment of the London School of Economics’ Paul Marshall Building. In 2016 they won the architectural competition to design 44 Lincoln’s Inn fields for London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

DeBruce Center at University of Kansas

DeBruce Center at the University of Kansas Building | www.e-architect.com

The architecture breaks with the sports museum conventions of bright colors and bold logos in favor of a more sophisticated building form and a lighter, more reductive materials palette of structural glass, honed black concrete and aluminum. This allows the building to remain deferential to the fieldhouse during the day and gives it more versatility of use.

Taubman Complex, Southfield, Michigan

Taubman Complex, Southfield, Michigan | www.e-architect.com

Design: Morphosis Architects with Albert Kahn Associates. This 36,700-sqft academic laboratory building for Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, provides advanced facilities for robotics engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences and related programs.

CARL Auditorium at RWTH Aachen University

CARL Auditorium

Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

The new educational facility points to a more holistic understanding of learning and science and signals a humanistic approach focusing on the human scale. The C.A.R.L. is centrally located at the meeting point of Campus Mitte and Campus West.

The Oculus at the University of Warwick building

The Oculus

Architects Berman Guedes Stretton create a new visual focal point for the University of Warwick. A new state-of-the-art teaching centre named The Oculus features an impressive 18m tall glazed frontage to University Road beneath a striking curved laminated timber roof

The Student Housing Company in Melbourne

The Student Housing Company

Design: DKO Architecture. Award-winning student accommodation provider, The Student Housing Company, has announced exciting international expansion plans, with its first Australian development to open in Melbourne in July 2018.