Steven Holl Architects has completed an Iowa a Visual Arts Building, located on the university's campus in Iowa City. It replaces a 1936 building that was heavily damaged by flooding in June of 2008., full_html
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Visual Arts Building by Steven Holl. Photograph © Iwan Baan
In addition to the general volume, the materiality of the new Educational Park of Marinilla is perhaps what stands out at first glance. Its outer skin, resolved with prefabricated panels of expanded mesh, allows the new building to become a semi-…
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Outside view of the Educational Park of Marinilla by El Equipo de Mazzanti. Photograph © Rodrigo Dávila
Steven Holl Architects has won the invited competition to design the new Rubenstein Commons -named after Institute Trustee David M. Rubenstein- at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. The IAS, which has a notable…
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Steven Holl’s watercolor concept sketches for the Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study.
The Art University Bournemouth’s new drawing studio, designed by alumnus Sir Peter Cook, is the first purpose-built drawing studio to open in the UK for 100 years and is the renowned architect and founding member of collective Archigram’s first…
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Inside vision workshop. Drawing Studio in UAB by CRAB Studio
The expansion of La Barrosa school consists on a new building, which will serve as a nursery. The school is located on the beach of La Barrosa (Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain). The pavilion, whose construction was completed in August 2015, is…
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Pabellón infantil del Exterior. Colegio La Barrosa por Gabriel Verd arquitectos. Fotografía © Jesús Granada
The intervention in Marquesa de Alorna School (Lisbon) aims to adapt the original and nowadays out-of-time model of the 50s to the new needs of the school type. The design results in an interesting clash between the parameters of the original 1956's…
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Vista de la nueva biblioteca desde el patio. Colegio Marquesa de Alorna por José Neves. Fotografía © Laura Castro Caldas y Paulo Cintra.
Designed by the architectural team of Zeidler and Snøhetta, the Ryerson Student Learning Centre…
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Ryerson University Student Learning Centre by Snøhetta and Zeidler. Photography © Lorne Bridgman
The school redesigned by Portuguese architect gives importance to the natural environment in which it is located, considering the whole as a public garden, and is adapted to the new needs through small interventions., full_html
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View of the patio. Francisco de Arruda School by José Neves. Photography © Laura Castro Caldas & Paulo Cintra
Jun Sekino was one of the nine architects that participate in Pordee Pordee School project, an initiative of charity Design for Disaster in order to recover some of the most damaged schools from the earthquake that took place in May of the last year…
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Baan Honghua school by Jun Sekino. Photograph © Spaceshift Studio
The Zollverein School of Management and Design by SANAA is on the main access road to the former mine Zeche Zolverein, declared World Heritage in 2001 and the subject of a Masterplan designed by OMA., full_html
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Interior view of the Zollverein School of Management and Design by SANAA. Photography © Carlos García Fernández