The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Ahead of the curve: Brighton College arts centre
Dutch practice krft, working with Nicholas Hare Architects as delivery architect, has created a unique and striking performing arts centre for private school Brighton College, says Rob Wilson
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
WonKy creates woodland education space using shipping container and parachute
The Clearing in Bexley, south-east London, is a multifunctional education space for teaching the importance of woodland management and conservation
Sam Jacob Studio refurbishes Kent School of Architecture studios
The new teaching spaces for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Kent in Canterbury incorporate influences from the Bauhaus to Warhol’s Factory
Stanton Williams hands over Emmanuel College additions
Stanton Williams has taken the wraps off its £21 million part re-use, part new-build project at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
David Chipperfield completes renewal of Royal Academy Schools
The project, with Julian Harrap Architects as heritage consultant, restores historic studios and creates a new suite of dedicated workshops
Nex and Donald Insall refurbish George Gilbert Scott-designed library in Oxford
The refurbishment of Exeter College Library combines sensitive restoration with modern additions, including a new entrance
BDP reworks two Brutalist buildings as ‘creative heart’ for Coventry University
BDP’s new home for Coventry University’s College of Arts and Society has a new link extension which provides a public-facing hub and display space
Fashion forward: Allies and Morrison’s new home for London College of Fashion
The building in Stratford, east London, provides over 40,000m² of space for 5,000 students over 17 storeys, bringing together departments previously dispersed across six sites
AWW retrofits east London office for adult education charity
AWW has adapted an east London office to create a new adult learning and community care hub for the Mary Ward Centre charity
Witherford Watson Mann completes sensitive addition to one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges
Witherford Watson Mann has performed an intelligent and farsighted human-scaled retrofit at Clare College, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Philip Vile and Philipp Ebeling