In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio’s design for its first building in South America, which was informed by indigenous weaving practices. Renderings of the seven-storey building planned for Bogotá in Colombia show a facade made of a series of colourful, undulating columns. Several readers were shocked by the cultural reference points
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Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least
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UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university building with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices. Located in Bogotá, along the city’s Calle 72 thoroughfare, the seven-storey building will be part of the Universidad Ean and will host the school of sustainable design and
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Architecture studio MoDus Architects has extended a daycare in the town of Terlano, Italy, to create the Tartan School nursery, kindergarten and youth centre. The small South Tyrolean town is surrounded by orchards and vineyards, which the studio used to inform the nursery’s appearance. “The school derives its name from the plaster facade of the
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US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and “prioritized inclusion”, drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Buffalo office of Cannon Design completed the 163,000-square foot (15140-square metre) Western Michigan University Student Center in 2023. “The primary concept
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Online group Architects for Gaza has launched the Gaza Global University to offer free education to architecture students impacted by the Israel-Hamas conflict. Architects for Gaza (AFG), which is led by architects and University of Westminster educators Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif, revealed it was establishing Gaza Global University earlier this month. AFG plans to
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British architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann has inserted an oak-framed structure into a narrow site within the Grade I-listed Clare College at Cambridge University. Originally built in 1326 and then reconstructed in 1785, the 1,060-square-metre college needed an update to improve its accessibility, escape routes and services, as well as more flexible space to house
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Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. Located centrally within the campus at a junction of existing pathways, the 1,000-square-metre gridded structure was designed to create flexible and non-hierarchical spaces for students to learn, study and socialise in a
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Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, is “the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood”. Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg, the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone. The main structure and internal
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Gabled concrete forms surround a planted courtyard at Samuel Paty School in Béziers, France, created by local studios Ateliers O-S and NAS Architecture. Located in the city’s Devèze district, the single-storey school is designed by Ateliers O-S and NAS Architecture to balance well-lit, navigable spaces with a feeling of enclosure and privacy for those inside.
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