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“World’s first net-positive energy” botanical garden completed in Florida

July 8, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture studios Olin and Overland have completed the “world’s first net-positive energy” botanical garden in Florida, which is powered by a rooftop array of 2,158 solar panels. The project is part of a three-year master plan led by Philadelphia-based landscape architecture studio Olin to expand the 15-acre Sarasota campus of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens,

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CLOU Architects stacks blocks to form kindergarten in China

June 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Playful openings and colourful windows brighten the pixelated exterior of West Coast Kindergarten, completed by Chinese studio CLOU Architects near Hangzhou. To maximise space on a small plot, CLOU Architects organised the 4,900-square-metre kindergarten across a series of stacked white volumes, intended to resemble children’s building blocks. This arrangement also gives rise to a pixelated form

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Ecology centre in coastal Maine is “model of holistic sustainability”

June 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design has incorporated local materials and energy-saving features into a Maine building that is meant to be “a new benchmark for academic buildings in northern climates”. Located in the town of Bar Harbor, the Davis Center for Human Ecology is located on the main, 38-acre (15-hectare) campus of

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Jestico + Whiles creates Cayman Islands school that doubles as hurricane shelter

June 23, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Jestico + Whiles has unveiled the John Gray School in the Cayman Islands, which also functions as a community space and hurricane shelter. Located in George Town on Grand Cayman, the school for 1,200 pupils was built on the site of a partially complete project that was abandoned in the early 2000s. Along

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WonKy embraces reclaimed materials for “all-weather” woodland education centre

June 22, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

An old shipping container and military parachute make up The Clearing education centre that architecture studio WonKy has created in Lesnes Abbey Woods in London. Located in the borough of Bexley, The Clearing is used for lessons in woodwork, nature conservation and sustainable woodland management. It is also open to local schools as an outdoor

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Krft sculpts “bulging” form for Brighton College arts centre

June 4, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A combination of grey brick and flint clads the sculptural exterior of this performing arts centre, which Dutch studio Krft has created for a college in Brighton, UK. The project replaces a series of ad-hoc extensions to Brighton College’s main building – an adjacent neogothic structure that was completed by architect Gilbert Scott in 1849.

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Krft sculpts “bulging” form for Brighton College arts centre

June 4, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A combination of grey brick and flint clads the sculptural exterior of this performing arts centre, which Dutch studio Krft has created for a college in Brighton, UK. The project replaces a series of ad-hoc extensions to Brighton College’s main building – an adjacent neogothic structure that was completed by architect Gilbert Scott in 1849.

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Hassell completes “democratic and non-hierarchical” building for Sydney law school

June 3, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Hassell has completed the Michael Kirby Law Building at Macquarie University in Sydney, organising its teaching spaces around a skylit, timber-framed atrium. Located on the university campus to the north of Sydney’s centre, the 8500-square-metre building replaces an existing two-storey administration centre built in the 1980s around an underutilised courtyard. Hassell transformed the

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Remix Studio elevates school campus in Shanghai on public podium

June 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Remix Studio has completed a campus for Futian High School in Shanghai, designed as a “city in the city” and linked by colourful walkways and bridges. The large campus, which measures over 120,000 square metres, was designed by Remix Studio to challenge the country’s typical hermetic educational architecture and create a more open

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Invisible Studio and Mole Architects create “big shed” as Forest School Camps base

May 23, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

The Big Roof is a flexible educational and storage space in eastern England, created by British practices Invisible Studio and Mole Architects for the Forest School Camps charity. Described by Invisible Studio and Mole Architects as a “big shed”, the project replaces three dilapidated agricultural buildings in the Cambridgeshire Fens previously used by the educational

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