Educational Building
Simple Architecture Builds Rammed Earth Classrooms for Burmese Migrant Children on the Thai Border
In the border town of Mae Sot, a compact learning center made of local earth and timber gives displaced communities a place to grow.
Scenic Architecture Office Lifts an Entire Sports Complex Above a Shanghai School's Playing Field
The Anna Pao Sohmen Centre at YK Pao School stacks six levels of athletics, making, and gathering on a tight campus site.
Warren and Mahoney and MJMA Stack an Entire Athletic Campus Vertically in Central Auckland
A 22,280-square-metre recreation centre rises eight floors on a single city block, burying its pool underground and placing courts in the sky.
Rômulo Marques-Carvalho and Ana Lucia Silveira Build a 1,000-Student Environmental School Inside a Teresina City Park
A steel-framed campus in northern Teresina wraps around existing trees, trading demolition waste for environmental pedagogy at full scale.
Walters & Cohen Weave a Flint Science Center into Canterbury Cathedral's Precincts
A four-storey physics building in Canterbury replaces a 1970s block with knapped flint, limestone, and deep archaeological sensitivity.
GGR Architectes Anchors a New Neighborhood in Frouzins with a Brick and Timber School Complex
A cruciform plan of terracotta brick and exposed wood frames four courtyards for 140 students outside Toulouse, France.
Huajian Group Wraps a Shanghai Primary School Around Circular Courtyards and Rooftop Gardens
A 23,000 square meter campus in Pudong's Tang Town replaces rigid corridors with curved pathways, planted voids, and orange canopies.
Taller de Arquitectura de Bogotá and Taller Architects Build a Vertical Campus in Downtown Bogotá
A three-volume university complex trades floor area for public space, anchoring a new master plan for Central University in Colombia's capital.
Mario Cucinella Architects Grows Three Elliptical Towers from a Hanging Garden on Via Ostiense
Roma Tre University's new rectorate trades institutional severity for permeable, climate-tuned towers rooted in a former industrial quarter.
LoHA Transforms an Arata Isozaki House into a Café and Lifestyle Shop in Rural Japan
A 1985 concrete residence in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture becomes a scarf shop where products float like clouds between structure and ground.
Empty Space Architecture Carves Courtyards Through a Lisbon House to Pull the Garden Inside
A 160-square-meter renovation in Lisboa reorganizes domestic life around planted courtyards and a double-height library wall.
G.Natkevicius & Partners Threads a New Faculty Building into Kaunas's Interwar Modernist Campus
A 5,217 square meter public health faculty in Lithuania channels 1930s rationalism through concrete arches and twin atriums.