Education
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Building StudiesBuilding Study: Bellenden Primary School, London, by Cottrell and Vermuelen
A compact island site in south-east London has been turned into a spacious, playful primary school that’s cleverly knitted into the urban fabric
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Building StudiesNick Hayhurst and Jonathan Nicholls' inspiration: Villa dall’Ava, Paris, France
The directors of Hayhurst Co on OMA’s ‘structurally bonkers’ house
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Building StudiesChris Dyson's inspiration: Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire
Chris Dyson frequently references Louis Kahn’s clarity of vision and craftsmanship in his own work
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Building StudiesLab City, Paris by OMA
OMA’s first science building unifies a whole engineering school under a giant ETFE roof. Ike Ijeh assesses the result
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Building StudiesNew Science Building by Sheppard Robson
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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Building StudiesYoung Street Campus, Cambridge by Richard Murphy Architects
The architect has skilfully integrated Anglia Ruskin University’s new nursing and music therapy campus into a close-knit network of Cambridge terraces, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building StudiesEvelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, by Zaha Hadid Architects
The aggressive swagger of Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy reflects the hard-edged dynamism found within the school itself
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Building StudiesBlavatnik School of Government, by Herzog & de Meuron
This departmental building for the University of Oxford entwines concepts of government and architecture and holds its own against the city’s historic fabric, says Ike Ijeh
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Building StudiesUniversity of Sussex arts centre by RH Partnership
The renovation of the University of Sussex’s arts centre transforms the space beyond an education facility to a fully fledged performance venue
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Building StudiesChrist Church Spitalfields nursery and community centre by Scabal
In the shadow of Christ Church Spitalfields, Scabal’s school building is enmeshed in a dispute that threatens its existence