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OVA crowns school in Prague with rooftop play areas and vegetable gardens

January 11, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

Czech architecture studio Opočenský Valouch Architects has completed Vida Elementary School on the outskirts of Prague, topping its red-brick volumes with a terrace of teaching spaces, play areas and vegetable gardens. Located in the town of Chýně in Prague-West District, the three-storey building comprises an elementary school and a sports complex with indoor and outdoor

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Ross Barney Architects exposes mechanical elements at Illinois technical school

January 9, 2026 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based practice Ross Barney Architects has highlighted ducts and machinery at an industrial-style community college building outside of Chicago, USA, to expose students to the very mechanical systems taught at the school. The Foglia Cen­ter for Advanced Tech­nol­o­gy and Inno­va­tion (CATI) at McHen­ry Coun­ty Col­lege (MCC) was designed for technical education in Crystal Lake, Illinois,

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Arabian knights influence interiors of Abu Dhabi riding school by David/Nicolas

January 7, 2026 Alyn Griffiths 0

Hand-carved reliefs and marquetry details elevate the custom joinery inside this equestrian academy in Abu Dhabi, where French-Lebanese duo David/Nicolas has designed a library and saddle workshop. Set across 65,000 square metres on Jubail Island, Abu Dhabi Royal Equestrian Arts (ADREA) is billed as the world’s first school of classical horsemanship outside of Europe, complete

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Kwong Von Gilnow rich history Rice University architecture school “rich history” in renovation

December 13, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

American architecture studio Kwong Von Glinow has renovated parts of the architecture school at Rice University, adding three new spaces through a “programmatic re-invention” of the 1947 building in Houston, Texas, USA. The 3,775-square-foot (350-square-metre) renovation took place inside the MD Anderson Hall, which was originally designed by Staub and Rather and expanded in 1981

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Coldefy completes timber-framed school in northern France

December 13, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

A cantilevered first floor marks the entrance to the timber-framed Robert Badinter Secondary School in Cambrai, France, completed by architecture studio Coldefy with Relief Architects. Located on the site of a former railyard opposite the city’s 19th-century train station, the school accommodates 650 students and forms part of a wider urban renewal in the city.

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AMMA completes mass-timber modular school “that breathes” in Barbados

December 10, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

American architecture studio AMMA fabricated mass-timber structures in Spain before installing them for the Oceana Innovation Hub school in Barbados in a modular arrangement that reflects vernacular architecture. AMMA, the new studio established by MASS Design Group cofounder Michael Murphy, was commissioned by nonprofit XQ Institute to create a model for a rapidly deployed school

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AACM designs kindergarten in Italy to feel like “a small village”

December 9, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

An “abstract ensemble” of pyramidal roofs cloaked in terracotta tiles was designed to evoke the feel of a small village at Kinder Rain, a kindergarten in Italy recently completed by local architecture studio AACM. The 672-square-metre kindergarten is located in Piove di Sacco, Padua, where it occupies a green site surrounded by trees. Looking to

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Toro Arquitectos designs ring-shaped Ciales Kindergarten in Puerto Rico

December 1, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create “a safe, engaging, and functional environment” for children. Ciales Kindergarten replaces a former funeral home, which was transformed by Toro Arquitectos and extended with a circular structure alongside it. The “unremarkable”

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“A handsome, compact, efficient building” says commenter

November 28, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a school in Canterbury completed by Walters & Cohen with a material palette of flint, oak and limestone. Located alongside an entrance to Canterbury’s cathedral precincts, The Rausing Science Centre was designed to balance a traditional material palette with a “crisp and contemporary” approach. “What a thoughtful

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Hand-cleft oak shingles cloak wellbeing centre in Hertforshire by Okra

November 27, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Irregular oak shingles that double as a habitat for bugs and bats cover the exterior of The Apple House, an education and wellbeing hub in Hertfordshire, UK, by London design collective Okra. Located in Serge Hill, The Apple House is designed for local community interest company The Serge Hill Project, which aims to demonstrate how

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