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University buildings designs and architects

e-architect try to select university building designs + educational architecture projects from around the globe. Discover higher education architecture projects information, news and pictures of the best new university building designs globally.

The website features a selection of the best new higher education building designs around the world, by respected designers.

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Somerville College Student Accommodation Oxford

October 14, 2023June 30, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

The demolition of the Radcliffe Infirmary exposed a long blank façade as the college had long turned its back on the hospital.

Brasenose College Oxford University Building

August 17, 2019June 26, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

Brasenose College’s bursar has highly commended Berman Guedes Stretton’s recently completed work at the college, reinforcing the practice’s reputation for bringing exceptional design skill and imaginative space use to the most challenging historic buildings.

Frick Chemistry Laboratory Princeton University

June 20, 2023June 22, 2012 by Adrian Welch

The Frick Chemistry Laboratory represents an expression of contemporary building craft, seamlessly integrating modern architectural features and cutting-edge sustainable building technologies.

University of Semnan Auditorium & Library, Iran

March 13, 2020May 23, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

Locating at Semnan university campus as a focal point, offers an architectonic articulation with different architectural styles of surrounding faculties in the campus.

Lincoln College Oxford Arts Centre Building

August 14, 2020April 26, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

Stanton Williams’ new Arts Centre for Lincoln College, one of the colleges of Oxford University, has received planning permission.

University College Ghent: Schoonmeersen

December 11, 2020April 26, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

University College Ghent Campus Schoonmeersen building

Among five invited participants SADAR + VUGA won first prize for the design of the three markers of the campus development masterplan.

Campus Schoonmeersen Ghent Sports Hall

May 20, 2024April 26, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

University College Ghent Campus Schoonmeersen Belgium building

The new sports hall becomes a northern gate to the campus. Its monolithic volume is on the northern side lifted up, opening its interior sports ground to a viewing from the surrounding.

University Senate Center Beer-Sheva, BGU

November 16, 2020April 26, 2012 by Adrian Welch

The office building, which faces the campus’s main entrance plaza, on the main lengthwise pedestrian axis, is shaped like a monolithic cube with sandstone cladding, and encloses a circular inner courtyard.

Osgoode Hall Law School York University building

February 3, 2025April 19, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

A newly transformed Osgoode Hall Law School opened officially today at York University in Toronto. An extensive renovation and expansion of the 43-year-old facility adds study and administrative space and brings a welcome infusion of natural light and improved amenities to better serve Canada’s largest law school.

Portland State University Architecture Events

December 16, 2024April 18, 2012 by David McManus

Respected British architects and educators Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth will deliver the fourth and fifth presentations in our “Firsts” inaugural lecture series.

Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges Yale University

March 14, 2021April 16, 2012 by David McManus

Original date built: 1962. New building completed in 2011, renovation + new-build architect: KieranTimberlake. Gold Medal from the AIA Philadelphia Chapter, shortlisted in the New/Old Category at the 2011 World Architecture Festival.

University of St Andrews BMS Annex Building

June 23, 2019April 13, 2012 by Adrian Welch

BMS Annex Building, University of St Andrews: the brief was driven by scientific vision to create new academic positions to promote interaction between research groups within the building and also to the adjacent buildings.

University of Warwick Building, Materials Sciences

September 15, 2022April 13, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

University of Warwick Materials & Analytical Sciences Building, Architect, English Academic Project University of Warwick Building English Building in Warwickshire design by bmj architects, England, UK 13 Apr 2012 University of Warwick Campus Design: bmj architects This new build primarily serves the departments of Physics and Chemistry on the campus of University of Warwick. Photographs … Read more

University of Oregon Department of Architecture

March 14, 2021April 9, 2012 by David McManus

How does architecture act as an interface between seemingly disparate environments, social structures, and contextual anomalies? In what ways is, ‘interface’ challenged or guided by the concept of ‘appropriateness’?

UB School of Architecture & Planning Events, NY

December 21, 2024April 1, 2012 by David McManus

UB School of Architecture & Planning Events, Buffalo, NY, USA architectural events – New York architectural exhibitions + lectures by this faculty

Monash University Student Housing, Melbourne

February 22, 2023March 21, 2012 by Isabelle Lomholt

A nominee in this year’s Institute of Architects Awards that will be presented to the jury on Saturday 24 March is the Monash Student Housing that sets a new standard of student housing.

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo, NY

May 10, 2025March 19, 2012 by Adrian Welch

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo, New York Design Event, Lecture News, Date

UB School of Architecture & Planning Event : Buffalo, NY

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo Exhibition : Architecture Information

UB School of Architecture & Planning Events 2012

Upcoming Lecture in March
Wednesday, Mar 21
5:30 pm
301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus

SA&P Lecture: Keller Easterling
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Lecture Title: Disposition

Question: How can space be information?

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City and a professor at Yale University. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft: Global Infrastructure and Political Arts, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.

Recent Lecture in March
Wednesday, Mar 7
5:30 pm
301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus

SA&P Lecture: David Gissen
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Lecture Title: Maintenance Environments

Question: What does the historicization of space and objects look and feel like?

David Gissen is the author of the book, Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments, and editor of the “Territory” issue of AD. His work explores novel conceptions of nature within architecture and the foundations for experimental forms of historical inquiry. He is an associate professor and coordinator of history and theory in the Division of Architecture, California College of the Arts.