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McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak National Observatory / SOM | Classics on Architecture Lab

April 9, 2025January 5, 2025 by Anton Giuroiu

Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: SOMYear: 1962Photographs: John Owens, Joshin Yamada, Ezra Stroller, Bill MarisCounty: PimaCountry: United States The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, completed in 1962 by SOM, is the world’s largest unobstructed aperture optical telescope, designed for studying the sun’s properties. Owned by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, its 50-ton heliostat atop …

Rolex Learning Center / SANAA

August 6, 2024 by Anton Giuroiu

Architects: SANAAArea: 37,000 m²Year: 2010Photography: Iwan BaanLead Architects: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue NishizawaProject Team: Yumiko Yamada, Rikiya Yamamoto, Osamu Kato, Mizuko Kaji, Naoto Noguchi, Takayuki Hasegawa, Louis-Antoine Grego, Tetsuo Kondo, Matthias Haertel, Catarina CanasStructural Engineering: SAPS – Sasaki and PartnersContractor: Losinger ConstructionHVAC Engineering EnerconomMEP Engineering: Scherler Ingénieurs-ConseilsFacade Consultant: Emmer Pfenninger PartnerEnergy Concept: SoraneClient: EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique …

Family Box in Beijing / SAKO Architects

July 27, 2024 by Anton Giuroiu

Architects: SAKO ArchitectsArea: 4150 m²Year: 2013Photographs: Ruijing PhotoConstruction: Shenzhen Weiye Decoration GroupArchitect In Charge: Keiichiro SAKO, Kumiko FukasawaClient: Beijing Family BoxCity: BeijingCountry: China Family Box in Beijing, designed by SAKO Architects, is an early childhood education center located in the Beijing CBD residential area. The center’s design, inspired by colorful trees, is playful and abstract. …

Cité internationale Paul Ricœur / Hérault Arnod Architectes

October 19, 2023March 16, 2017 by Aline Chahine

The Cité Internationale is an hybrid building, it brings together three different owners and four independent programs

Back of the Yards High School / STL Architects

September 8, 2023June 13, 2016 by Aline Chahine

This urban high school is organized into three thematic components: body, mind and spirit, that relate to the various programs and activities within the school

Lycee Francais de Chicago / STL Architects

September 9, 2023June 9, 2016 by Aline Chahine

Located in close proximity to the heart of Lincoln Square in Chicago, the new 85,000 SF Lycée Française de Chicago has been conceived as a unique educational campus

University Center, The New School / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

September 8, 2023April 4, 2016 by Aline Chahine

For nearly a century, The New School has been at the forefront of progressive education, with design and social research …

Gokceada High School Campus / PAB Architects

September 9, 2023January 9, 2016 by Aline Chahine

Gokceada is a characteristic island in Northern Aegean Sea with small scale masonry houses in organic urban patterns.

School complex “Les Bartelottes” / NOMADE architects

September 8, 2023December 14, 2015 by Aline Chahine

The school absorbs the additional population resulting from the surrounding new housing as well as the growing school population of Ville-du-Bois.

HPA Energy Lab / Flansburgh Architects

September 9, 2023October 29, 2015 by Aline Chahine

Conceived as a high school science building dedicated to the study of alternative energy, the new 4,000-nsf Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy functions as a zero-net-energy, fully sustainable building

John Curtin College of the Arts Year 7 Teaching Facility / JCY Architects and Urban Designers

September 9, 2023September 15, 2015 by Aline Chahine

The development of this new school facility was in response to the West Australian Department of Education’s new program of integrating year 7 into secondary schools for the start of 2015.

Central Taiwan Innovation Campus MOEA / Bio-architecture Formosana + NOIZ ARCHITECTS

September 9, 2023August 24, 2015 by Aline Chahine

Located in Nantou County’s Central Taiwan Science Park in Zhongxing New Village, Central Taiwan Innovation Campus MOEA (CTIC) is a multi-purpose Research Institute.

EEA / PAN Architecture

September 9, 2023August 3, 2015 by Aline Chahine

PAN ARCHITECTURE has delivered a modular extension to Marseille’s Architecture School.

AvB Tower / Wiel Arets Architects

September 8, 2023June 30, 2015 by Aline Chahine

The AvB Tower is a hyper-hybrid academic building and a dynamic hub threading The Hague’s central train station to the adjacent urban envelope …

School of Engineering at Lancaster University, England / John McAslan + Partners

September 9, 2023May 20, 2015 by Aline Chahine

This new home for the School of Engineering at Lancaster University provides a diverse range of workshops; laboratories and academic offices

The Learning center for Polytechnique School, France

September 8, 2023April 7, 2015 by Aline Chahine

Sou Fujimoto Architects, Manal Rachdi OXO Architectes and Nicolas Laisné Associés, Won the first Prize for the new Learning Centre of the Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris-Saclay.

University of Toronto Mississauga Innovation Centre, Canada / Moriyama & Teshima Architects

September 8, 2023March 26, 2015 by Aline Chahine

The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), the second-largest campus of the University of Toronto, is set on a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River

Nanyang Technological University / Heatherwick Studio

September 7, 2023March 11, 2015 by Aline Chahine

The Learning hub was completed in March of 2015, is part of a £360 million scheme by Nanyang Technological University and is the first redevelopment of its campus in twenty years.

New School / Dream Design Studio

September 9, 2023March 3, 2015 by Aline Chahine

Elena Dobrovolskaya and Dream Design Studio designed an uncommon primary school. They created an optimistic environment where children not only acquire knowledge but also learn about the world.

Kita HISA kindergarten / baukind

September 8, 2023September 26, 2014 by Aline Chahine

Kita Hisa, formerly a retail store, was rebuilt to create a pleasant, safe and stimulating kindergarten with enough space for 70 children

Education Center for the University of Cordoba / Rafael de La-Hoz

September 8, 2023July 5, 2014 by Aline Chahine

Cubic form and zero gravity, the Vial-Norte UCO building is the result of the combination of massive volumes with light spaces.

Rudolf Steiner School / LOCALARCHITECTURE

September 8, 2023May 20, 2014 by Aline Chahine

Located in a green belt of Lausanne’s western metropolitan area, the school building of Bois-Genoud integrates the Rudolf Steiner pavilion campus.

New building at Albert Einstein High School / NBJ

September 8, 2023October 11, 2013 by Aline Chahine

The overall restructuring of Albert Einstein High School, ends with the completion of the last building renovation developed by the architect agency NBJ associated with François Privat architects. The High School is a vast building of the 60’s.

University of Toronto’s Health Sciences Complex / Kongats Architects

September 8, 2023May 9, 2013 by Aline Chahine

The Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex at the University of Toronto Mississauga accommodates teaching and research facilities for the new medical school to be based at the Mississauga campus.

Kindergarten, Neufeld an der Leitha / Solid Architecture

September 8, 2023September 3, 2011 by Aline Chahine

The design by SOLID architecture for the kindergarten in Neufeld an der Leitha emerged as the winning project in an invited competition …

Pre School for Early Childhood / Giancarlo Mazzanti

September 8, 2023June 4, 2011 by Aline Chahine

Starting from the special understanding of Malaguzzi Loris pedagogical philosophy, was born the idea of creating an element that suggests 3 interrelated centralities, and which cause a range of situations and experiences among children, teachers and family.

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