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Diller Scofidio + Renfro designs art centre with “super lobby” in New Mexico

October 9, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

A stepped facade and a level almost completely wrapped in glass feature in the design of an arts and technology centre in New Mexico by architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology (CCAT) at the University of New Mexico will contain performance halls, labs, gallery space and classrooms. Diller

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Dezeen Debate features a student centre hailed as “eccentrically energetic in and out”

October 1, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne by US studio KoningEizenberg. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. US studio KoningEizenberg wrapped the Student Pavilion in a series of external concrete stairs and terraces. Readers praised the project, with one calling it “rich, layered, and eccentrically energetic

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Chybik + Kristof reveals plans for “culturally-sensitive” preschool in northern India

September 27, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has unveiled plans for a timber and rammed-earth preschool that will feature an outdoor classroom sheltered by fabric canopies in Mulbekh, India. Set to be built in the mountainous and remote Ladakh region, the Spring Dales Public School was designed by Chybik + Kristof in collaboration with non-governmental organisation Himalayan

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Woodstock pavilions showcase intersection of “digital and analog construction”

September 26, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Student and professor teams from US universities created seven pavilions that explore “digital and analogue methods of construction” for an architecture “live-work festival” in upstate New York. The pavilions demonstrated how machine technology can be used to aid in manual construction, such as sorting wood or pre-marking structures for more efficient assembly. Organised by Neal Lucas

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University of Melbourne Student Pavilion by KoningEizenberg is “like a big treehouse”

September 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

An external concrete stair with terraces connects the floors of the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne, designed by US studio KoningEizenberg. The 2,508-square-metre centre has a variety of dining, work, events and meeting spaces where students can “study and linger” throughout the day to help combat social isolation. It forms part of a wider

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Studio Gang converts tobacco warehouse into design studios for University of Kentucky

September 24, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

American architecture firm Studio Gang has converted a former 1910s tobacco warehouse into studios with a massive external shade structure for the University of Kentucky’s College of Design. Located on an “underused edge” of the University of Kentucky’s Lexington campus, the former warehouse was built in 1917 and acquired by the university in 1959, when

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Wright and Wright unveils transformation of British Academy headquarters in London

September 13, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

London studio Wright and Wright has refurbished the London headquarters of the British Academy, creating double-height spaces on the lower floor that aim to reflect the grandeur of the rooms above. Located at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace in central London, Wright and Wright intended to celebrate the building’s history while making it better suited for events,

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Archipelago converts brutalist post office in Belgium into learning centre

September 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Archipelago has transformed a former brutalist post office in Belgium into a learning centre, stripping it back to reveal its “spacious, generous and luminous” interiors. Located in Louvain-la-Neuve, the building was renovated for the Centre d’enseignement supérieur en Brabant wallon (CPFB), an education centre linked to the University of Louvain that focuses

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Red curtains line facade of FADEU Building at Santiago architecture school

September 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Sunshades and screens line the exterior of a concrete-framed university building in Santiago, Chile, by architects Alberto Moletto and Sebastián Paredes that was envisioned as an “articulator of the campus”. The building houses the FADEU – which stands for Facultad Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, or the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. It

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Mould growing on Toyo Ito-designed “largest wooden building in Asia”

August 30, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Mould is growing on Gaia, a mass-timber business school in Singapore that was completed last year for the Nanyang Technological University by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Singapore-based studio RSP Architects. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) claimed the 43,500-square-metre school was “the largest wooden building in Asia” in terms of the volume of timber used when it

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