All Blog Posts Tagged 'education' (16)

Located on the research campus of the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, the Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) specializes in the investigation of different multidisciplinary work flows. …

The concept of a “study cascade” is the design strategy of the new Medical and Graduate Education Building at Columbia University’s Medical Center.  A network of social and study spaces are distributed across oversized…

Created by Melbourne-based architectural and urban design practice Lyons, the Biosciences Research Building for the Australian…

The imposing Cottbus Library has an amoeba-like footprint and a glazed glass façade that is covered in repetitive white text and images.  The neutral-colored approach is…

This delicate timber structure holds some of Australia’s most powerful microscopes.  The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM) Processing and Devices (P&D) Building at the University of Wollongong serves as a bridge connecting…

The Sir Duncan Rice Library of the University of Aberdeen is conceived as a cube that evokes the ice and light of the north.  Its straight exterior is covered in a façade whose myriad angled lines are reminiscent of shards of ice.  By contrast,…

AME-LOT is a student housing proposal covered in a skin of recycled wooden pallets.  To create the building, Paris-based Stephane Malka Architecture claims that no…

Many others have been impressed with the Nardini Research Center and Auditorium, dedicated to the famous Nardini distillery, and now it’s my turn.  Italian-based architecture firm…

Japanese practice Tezuka Architects aims to tear down the boundaries between internal and external – between built and natural environments – with their project…

Alsop Architects won an open international competition in 2002 to build the New Arts Complex for Goldsmiths College in London. The Phase One building, also known as the Ben Pimlott…

This sculptural addition to the University of Alaska evokes the imagery of the state’s mountains, coastlines, and glaciers.  The…

The Kindergarten 8Units nursery brightens up its corner of the…

The new academic building for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is called…

The  Junior Boys building at Penleigh and Essedon Grammar School (PEGS) in Australia was recently…

Expected for completion in 2012, the Miami Dade College campus center will be a 2.5 million square foot, mixed-use architectural icon.  The giant extruded…