The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Circling the square: David Kohn’s Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
David Kohn Architects has created a striking, sinuous addition that plays innovatively with materials, building techniques and architectural forms
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Shared values: Office S&M creates King’s Cross nursery fit-out
In London’s King’s Cross, Office S&M has created a carefully considered nursery fit-out for growing ethical childcare provider MEplace, focusing on the holistic wellbeing of toddlers, writes Rob Wilson. Photography by Megan Taylor
Building study: Manalo & White’s new block at a school for deaf children
Working with deaf architect-led practice Richard Lyndon Design, Manalo & White has created a supportive learning addition to one of the UK’s largest specialist schools for deaf children
Hopkins completes science and technology centre at Hertfordshire school
The three-storey CLT and glulam-framed blocks are integrated with existing buildings on Haileybury school’s campus, focused around a central courtyard and cloister
Building study: Bennetts Associates retrofits the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
With its Edinburgh Futures Institute retrofit, Bennetts Associates has breathed new life into one of the Scottish capital’s major architectural landmarks
Hassell completes ‘flagship’ business school in Glasgow
Hassell has completed a six-storey building on the University of Glasgow’s Gilmorehill campus in the city’s West End
Adrian James Architects completes Arts and Crafts-inspired girls’ boarding house
The distinctive design of Queen Elizabeth Hall at Shrewsbury School combines features such as arched openings and chequerboard fenestration, steep-pitched roofs, dormers and tall ventilation stacks
Haworth Tompkins’ £14.5m ‘transformation’ of Warburg Institute unveiled
Haworth Tompkins’ refurb creates a 140-seat auditorium, new gallery and extension hosting library rooms for the centre, which is dedicated to the study of art and culture
Hopkins completes School of Data Science in Virginia
Hopkins Architects’ new building at the University of Virginia, designed in association with VMDO, incorporates a portico and brick elevations designed to reference the campus’s Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda
Jestico + Whiles completes £73 million Cayman Islands secondary school
The practice won a competition to design and complete the largest school on the islands after work on a previous scheme was left half-built in 2012