Category Archives: Education

Located in Melbourne, Australia this project was designed as a Campus for the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) which hosts the Year 11 and 12 senior students. The project was designed by the architectural practice of McBride Charles Ryan and its shape is based on the infinity symbol which also offered two protected courtyards along with enhancing the access to natural light, offering better views and improving the ventilation. The main place of the project is at the central…

The Red Bull Music Academy was designed by the practice of INABA in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York and it occupies four floors of a vacant building transforming them into an exemplary learning environment with collaborative areas that make the traditional classrooms obsolete. The interior has curved walls which create the space for each area and the entire project spreads over a surface of 38000 square feet with the ground level extending into a former warehouse and thus offering…

The practice of Behnisch Architekten was employed by the University of Baltimore after they won the contest to create a new building for the law school, one which can provide a contemporary and functional solution while also offering a center for the enhancement of the culture and commerce of the region. The site for the project is opposite Penn Station offering a gateway into the city. The building is composed of three volumes, each containing one of the three main…

This original project is designed as a small town where the children are the inhabitants offering a new and interesting way of thinking of a nursery. The space is safe and diverse, with an architecture that resembles a town, thus having a main street, alleys and squares with houses in-between them. There is a single branch in the basic module designed for 25 children and it spreads over a surface of 95 square meters with a multi-purpose room, toilets, a…

The architectural practice Ministry of Design completed the OCBC Singapore Campus interior in a 10 floor building in the CBD. The project includes a dedicated learning hub for OCBC Bank which is a global banking leader whose headquarters is found in Singapore. The new space is meant as a place where continual learning can take place and a space which also redefines the way that learning happens, aiming at maximum efficiency. The classrooms proved to be too restrictive for both…

Located in the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in Arizona, USA, the Health Sciences Education Building was completed in 2012 and it is a model of interdisciplinary approaches to the health sciences research and education that sprung from the partnership of the Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. The project was designed by the practice of CO Architects and it spreads over 268000 square feet and six floors that include the administration and faculty offices, lecture halls,…

The Daegu Gosan Public Library was designed by the architects Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Frisly Colop Morales, Jason Easter and Adrian Yau as a portrayal of knowledge through a temple where it is shared and spread. It is designed as a place where ideas can be shared and information can be accessed either in the form of books or the newer mediums of digital information which are extremely popular in Korea in general. The library also focuses on the local culture trying…

This impacting project was designed by the practice of Mazzanti Arquitectos and their purpose was to create a landscape rather than an architectural object, something that develops and is related to the geography and topography of the site. Since the project is on hill in the city of Medellin, in the northern Andes, one of the most affected regions during the 1980s by the violence of drug traffic, the city tries to improve the education of the population and thus allow…

The Kauwi Interpretive Centre was created in 2012 in Lonsdale, an industrial suburb within the city of Onkaparinga, Australia and it was designed by the architectural practice of Woodhead. The building tries to offer a modern connection with the ancient landscape and the name Kauwi means water in the local Karuna Aboriginal language, since one of the Centre’s main purposes was to educate the people about the importance of water and the way it can be improved. The Centre offers…

The renowned architectural practice of Perkins+Will in New York designed the Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a lot of sustainable features and a daring aspect that completely changes the aspect of the previous outdated facility. The inspiration for the design came from the two programs that the engineering building houses, namely Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering. Starting from this, the exterior tries to be an architectonic manifestation of these activities, with the color and patterns…