A Pyramidal University Campus Towers over a Japanese City
With numerous functional and visual connections to the surrounding city of Ibaraki, Otemon Gakuin University's newest building is inviting despite its sleekness.
With numerous functional and visual connections to the surrounding city of Ibaraki, Otemon Gakuin University's newest building is inviting despite its sleekness.
The University of New Mexico's recently completed plaza—in some ways, 50 years in the making—has "shorelines," which help visually impaired people navigate the expanse.
The Dublin-based firm worked with a somewhat radical program that juxtaposes dance studios with a library and lecture area for the southwest London university.
A salutation to the two science departments it holds, the Check Point Building’s ephemeral form contrasts with the campus’s more orthogonal buildings.
Inside the library, 100,000 volumes appear to float midair across staggered honeycomb steel mezzanines.
The British firm totally revamped an re-skinned two massive Modernist buildings, creating a new welcoming pedestrian environment in the process.
The building’s developers and architects want the House to be a tangible example of eco-conscious living.
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts finds Holl eschewing restraint, but his powers of atmosphere remain intact.
The Verb Active Media Table, to launch later this year, will integrate storage and technology to foster flexible learning environments.
With major architecture firms getting involved, these formerly neglected institutions are having a design renaissance—and showing us how design could transform the American education system.
In revisiting the speculative proposal, pupils at the School of Architecture at Taliesin strive for avant-garde status without the aesthetic trappings of “Mr. Wright.”
Elkus Manfredi Architects on innovation and collaboration in urban environments.
Ross Barney Architects on making children's spaces where children can grow, develop, and blossom.
We are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of religious architecture within the United States today.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s newest Manhattan project for a medical school upends the typology’s ingrained gloominess.
The School of Architecture's unique new urban planning initiative focuses on the crossroads of race, gender and the built environment.
PInCH, a competition that embraces design thinking, is attempting to revolutionize biomedical research.h.
At Oxford, the Middle East Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects is a stainless-steel-clad facility that stands out by fitting in.
A new library at Williams College is flexible enough to fit rapidly evolving collections, technologies, and student study habits.
Leers Weinzapfel Associates used highly engineered timber as the primary structural system in their plans for the University of Massachusetts Amherst Design Building.