Educational Building
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Atelier cnS Plugs Arched Micro-Worlds into a Foshan Primary School to Blur Campus and Park
At the foot of Jinping Mountain, lightweight canopies and colored portals transform a renovated campus into a landscape that teaches through play.
Atelier cnS Stacks a Running Track Above Flexible Classrooms in a Dense Pearl River Delta School
A Foshan primary school doubles its capacity by building vertically and reopening its campus to a forgotten canal.
KPF Builds a 267-Acre University Campus in Guangzhou Designed Around Wind and Water
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's new Guangzhou campus trades academic silos for climate-responsive urbanism in the Pearl River Delta.
CCTN Design Converts a Century-Old Beijing Steel Mill into a 223,000 m² Lakeside Mall
Liugong Hui reimagines Shougang's industrial heritage between two lakes as a post-Olympic commercial campus in west Beijing.
FDA2044: A Scenography School Where Virtual Reality Reshapes Architectural Education
Extending Belgrade's Faculty of Drama Arts into a glass-wrapped campus that fuses immersive technology with stage design pedagogy.
FDA2044: A Scenography School Where Virtual Reality Reshapes Architectural Education
Extending Belgrade's Faculty of Drama Arts into a glass-wrapped campus that fuses immersive technology with stage design pedagogy.
MWArchitekten Builds a Farm Kindergarten That Thinks Like a Barn in Hohenems, Austria
A concrete-and-timber kindergarten on the edge of open farmland in Vorarlberg uses thermal mass and gable geometry to root children in rural life.
HGA Nestles a Cedar-Clad Music Building into the Vermont Hills at Marlboro
A cluster of gabled volumes channels New England's agrarian vernacular to house rehearsal rooms and a 10,000-score archive on a forested campus.
Aulets and Aixopluc Build a Timber School in Mallorca Modeled on Mediterranean Monasteries
A progressive school in Marratxinet channels monastic courtyard typologies and offsite CLT construction to create a climatic oasis.
Arquitectos Aliados Converts a Porto Factory into a Hotel Where Music Sets the Tempo
A 1980s electrical components factory in Porto becomes 62 hotel apartments organized around courtyards, gardens, and a 300-capacity concert hall.
Barkow Leibinger Wraps a Brutalist Tower in Brick at Rice University's Sid Richardson College
A trio of linked buildings in Houston negotiates between Rice's oak-shaded campus and the vertical Medical District across Main Street.
SSP SchürmannSpannel Wraps a Dortmund School in Pink and Rethinks the Corridor
A low-tech, U-shaped comprehensive school in Dortmund Westerfilde trades dark hallways for conical self-learning zones and a rooftop library.