Education
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Building StudiesBuilding Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
The postgraduate block is a deft study in how to do contextual architecture when the context happens to be your own work, writes Ike Ijeh
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Building 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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Nick 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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Chris 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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Lab 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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New Science Building by Sheppard Robson
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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Ark Putney Academy, London, by Hawkins Brown
Elliott School was one of LCC’s finest post-war comprehensives, but had its fair share of problems. When an ambitious redevelopment was announced, former pupils led a mutiny to save the buildings they loved. Five years later Chloe McCulloch returns to assess the results
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Young 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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Lyndhurst School, London, by Cottrell and Vermeulen
Cottrell and Vermeulen’s third school for the London Borough of Southwark proves that intelligent design can be achieved via government school building programmes, and without reverting to cookie-cutter tropes. Ike Ijeh reports
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Evelyn 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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Blavatnik 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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University 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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Christ 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
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Southwark Park Primary School, Bermondsey, south London by AOC
New extensions provide internal and external learning spaces
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Hazlegrove Preparatory School by Feilden Fowles Architects
New building links to the existing red brick walls of grade II listed Hazlegrove House
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Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design by Feilden Clegg Bradley
By taking on an all-encompassing role in the creation of Condé Nast’s fashion college, Feilden Clegg Bradley has succeeded in delivering a timeless classic
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Jonathan Ellis-Miller's inspiration: Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre
Jonathan Ellis-Miller admires the way in which Hopkins Architects combined industrial practicality with poetic otherworldliness in the design for the Schlumberger research centre in Cambridge
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Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' Secondary School extension by Cottrell & Vermeulen
With a striking bespoke design and a passionate client, this extension to a Roman Catholic girls’ school shows educational buildings can’t always fit the mould
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University of Limerick Medical School by Grafton Architects
Grafton Architects’ buildings for Limerick University demonstrate the practice’s theory of placemaking
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Queen’s University Belfast student accommodation by Richard Murphy and RPP
Richard Murphy and RPP Architects have worked to provide a sociable environment designed to counter postgraduate isolation
