The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Twelve Architects completes £81m Sheffield Diamond
London’s Twelve Architects has unveiled its first finished UK project: this £81 million building for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Foster Wilson raises the curtain on £4.3m school theatre
Foster Wilson has created a new £4.3 million performing arts centre for Bedford School and the local community by converting a listed Moravian church and minister’s house
Design Engine unveils ‘Passivhaus’ Student Centre in Bournemouth
The Winchester-based Design Engine has completed the first stage of its transformation of Arts University Bournmouth’s Wallisdowne campus in Poole
RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 finalist: University of Greenwich by Heneghan Peng
Despite pandering to its limestone surroundings the materials of Heneghan Peng’s scheme are secondary to its success, says James Hogan
RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 finalist: Burntwood School by AHMM
The mature level-headed design of Burntwood is a progression from AHMM’s previous schools, says Felix Mara
Plymouth School of Creative Arts by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
It’s the calm chaos that disguishes this school, writes Jay Merrick
AHMM’s schools A to Z
Having spent the past eight years designing schools, Paul Monaghan presents an ABC of the lessons he has learnt on the projects
School design: England
After the scrapping of BSF Liverpool developed a system for non-iconic, cost-effective schools, says Sheppard Robson’s school specialists
School design: Scotland
Ryder Architecture’s Chris Malcolm presents the practice’s work on the Scottish Schools for the Future (SSF) programme
School design: Wales
Procuring new schools in Wales is, for the most part, a relatively straightforward but nevertheless imperfect process, says Stride Treglown’s Simon Trew