Education
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Technical
Technical Study: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London
Carl Turner tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he won the biggest project of his career – and then had to design it a nerve-wracking three times
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Technical Study: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins’ new theatre is a virtuoso performance, with an inspired and highly innovative glulam diagrid ceiling
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Technical study: Garden Halls, London
TP Bennett and Maccreanor Lavington’s elegant stepped facades in the heart of Bloomsbury show how off-site methods can help student accommodation to raise its game. Amanda Birch reports
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Technical study: Churchill College, University of Cambridge
6a Architects’ new timber-clad student court is a clever inversion of the original brutalist college, writes Hugh Strange
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Senate House north block by Mace and Rock Townsend
A Mace-led team has turned the north end of Senate House into a light-filled learning space and glazed courtyard for the School of Oriental and African Studies
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David Attenborough Building by Nicholas Hare Architects
Nicholas Hare Architects has preserved the integrity of the original Arup Associates brutalist Cambridge landmark while ensuring the radical remodelling works well for its new users. Becoming an exemplar of sustainability was something it took in its stride
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Holy Cross School by Cullinan Studio
Cullinan Studio’s prefabricated school in Swindon extracts spatial and architectural delight from a lean, compact template and answers today’s challenge of how we can build more schools for less money, while maintaining design quality. Ike Ijeh takes a look
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How to design for people who hear with their eyes
As a $60m international design competition is launched by Gallaudet, Washington’s specialist university for the deaf, its campus architect Hansel Bauman shares insights from a decade of research into DeafSpace design
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CEIP 215 school, Girona, Spain by H Arquitectes
This refurbishment of a 1980s school in the small Catalonian village of Vidreres prioritises durable, low-cost construction while instilling a greater sense of space that values daylighting and a stronger relationship with the outdoors
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London Business School by Sheppard Robson
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia by Architype
The £11.6m Enterprise Centre in Norfolk is one of the most innovative green buildings in the UK. But for its prefabricated cladding, it relies on the region’s most traditional building method
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Mansfield College East Range building, by Rick Mather Architects
This modest two-storey building involves a high level of technical complexity to work round a grade II* listed building and a tricky site in the centre of Oxford
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Victorian tower extension, Brighton College by Richard Griffiths Architects
Landmark ‘stump’ reaches its intended height - more than a century after it was completed
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Enjoy the silence
Hounslow’s £150m school rebuilding programme aims to give children under Heathrow’s flight path quieter classrooms and better ventilation
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Low-energy office building in Austria by Baumschlager Eberle
Architect Baumschlager Eberle has simplified its 2226 Lustenau office building in order to maximise energy savings
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Caragol school and nursery, Mallorca by SMS Arquitectos
Locally produced concrete provides a low-cost solution for a simple yet sophisticated education scheme
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The Exchange Building, University College Falmouth by Burwell Deakins
Burwell Deakins’ Exchange building gives Falmouth students a vibrant new thoroughfare in which to meet and study
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UCL Academy, Swiss Cottage School by Penoyre & Prasad
Concrete creates a strong civic presence at two north London schools, while quietly working to reduce energy use within
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St Paul's School, London by Nicholas Hare
Architectural standards were slipping at the 500-year-old St Paul’s School in London, but the elegant exposed interiors and concrete colonnades of Nicholas Hare’s new science building augur well for the future
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The St Alphege building, University of Winchester by Design Engine
Design Engine’s new teaching block for the University of Winchester is dominated by a steel-and-timber portico inspired by Christian symbols