Mälardalen University Building in Eskilstuna
3XN Architects is the winner of the architectural competition for a new educational building for Mälardalen University – a university college in Eskilstuna southwest of Stockholm, Sweden.
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Beinecke Library Renovation, Yale
Design: Gordon Bunshaft, redesign: HBRA Architects: following commencement ceremonies in May 2015, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will close its iconic building for 16 months to undergo a major renovation that will replace its climate-control systems and double its classroom space.
Oxford Brookes University John Henry Brookes Building
Design: Design Engine. In the context of historic piecemeal development, the need to address the campus as a whole was recognised. This was then enabled by the production of a masterplan in 2007
Aula Leipzig University, Germany
Design: Erick van Egeraat. In his design Erick van Egeraat did not rebuild the church stone by stone, but returns the memory of a long tradition and a rich history for everyone to interpret in their own way
Porter School Tel Aviv – PSES Building
Design: Geotectura / Axelrod-Grobman Architects / Chen Architects. In a milestone for sustainable building in Israel, the Porter School of Environmental Studies Building has been inaugurated, providing space for environmental teaching, research, exhibitions, conferences and demonstrations of environmental technologies. The EcoBuilding includes a Capsule suspended high over the atrium and the EcoWall, a thermal-solar tubes system for energy production.
Living Wall Biofilter Toronto, Ontario
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. A Canadian invention that improves indoor air quality and reduces a building’s energy costs turns ten years old this spring. The living wall biofilter – an installation of tropical plants adorning office, academic, commercial and civic buildings – is a sustainable design response to create a healthy indoor environment and lower the carbon footprint.
University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson
Design: Line and Space – during discussions defining the new facility, it became clear that there were a number of contradictions in the architectural program; the desire to provide a place suitable for active discourse as well as quiet solitude; the ability to enjoy reading in natural light while at the same time offering protection from its destructive nature.
University of Iowa School for Art Building
Design: Steven Holl Architects. The School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa, which also opened in September 2006, is awarded for successfully negotiating its site at the crossing of two orthogonal paths in the campus, at a place where the city grid is interrupted by natural landscape in the form of a small lagoon and a limestone bluff.
Library of Kunming University Building
Architect: STUDIO TWIST. The Library of Kunming University of Science and Technology is regarded as the symbolic center of the university campus.
The building form resembles stacked cubes on a plinth with bi-axial symmetry and a vertical central atrium. The central circular atrium serves as the spiritual center as well as the main vertical circulation of the library.
University of Cambridge Student Services Centre
Bennetts Associates architects appointed by the University of Cambridge to design its new Student Services building at the New Museum Site. The project will consist of part new build and part renovation of existing listed buildings.
Korea University Business School Hyundai Motor Hall
Design: Samoo Architects & Engineers. Planned as a 21st century business school that will be responsible for educating global leaders, the construction of Korea University’s Hyundai Motor Hall designed by Samoo Architects & Engineers has recently been completed.
Strasbourg School of Architecture, France
Design: Marc Mimram
Marc Mimram, the award-winning Paris based architecture and engineering practice, has
completed the first phase of Strasbourg School of Architecture (Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Strasbourg).
Suzhou Business School Building
Design: BDP, architects wins commission to design the International Business School in the ancient city of Suzhou which lies 80 km to the west of Shanghai. The school makes up the last building of the Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) south campus. BDP was appointed in 2012 to masterplan the large-scale campus to provide world-class teaching, laboratory and research facilities, and has already designed five faculty buildings on the site.
St Jeromes University Renewal, Waterloo, Ontario
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects
A ground-breaking ceremony today marks a new chapter in the 150-year life of St. Jerome’s University at University of Waterloo. It also marks a new collaborative design process to realize a campus expansion project.