Education case studies
Free school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they’ve opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions…
Rebuilding Iraq: Mott MacDonald's Marsh Arab school
How do you start to rebuild a country devasted by war? When Mott MacDonald was asked to make a school for the Marsh Arabs, it went back to using traditional woven reed – reconnecting the community to its roots.
The hospitable: Foster + Partners’ Circle Bath hospital
Foster + Partners intended its first ever healthcare project – the 28-bed Circle Bath – to be as warm and welcoming as a five-star boutique hotel
Sunderland university student union: All bar none
There’s no room for slackers at Sunderland university’s dazzling new student union, which packs its impressively generous spaces with sports halls and exercise areas. You can’t even get a pint around here
Party Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre
Ash Sakula’s Carnival Arts Centre is Luton’s answer to Notting Hill – buzzing with life and invention and a haven for stiltwalkers and other forms of streetlife
Rivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio’s flamboyant design for York St John University’s new quadrangle in England’s most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it’s built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
Michael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett school – London’s first Building Schools for the Future project – succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There’s probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
Cost of school refurbishment: case study
They might not have the glamour of new-build, but refurbishments, such as this one at Castle Hill school in Kent, have their wow factor too - nowhere more so than on price. Ike Ijeh sums it up
The new arrival: Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital
Weighing in at £585m, Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital was expected to be a difficult birth. Instead, it has been delivered with few complications, no trips to casualty, and ahead of its due date. Thomas Lane hands round the cigars
Penoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon
Video: Westminster Academy by AHMM
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris design for this new London academy won Building’s Public Project of the Year award
Plane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson’s spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
University of Hertfordshire campus
The University of Hertfordshire is no stranger to innovation, as its de Havilland campus demonstrates.
Free school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they’ve opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions…
Rebuilding Iraq: Mott MacDonald's Marsh Arab school
How do you start to rebuild a country devasted by war? When Mott MacDonald was asked to make a school for the Marsh Arabs, it went back to using traditional woven reed – reconnecting the community to its roots.
The hospitable: Foster + Partners’ Circle Bath hospital
Foster + Partners intended its first ever healthcare project – the 28-bed Circle Bath – to be as warm and welcoming as a five-star boutique hotel
Sunderland university student union: All bar none
There’s no room for slackers at Sunderland university’s dazzling new student union, which packs its impressively generous spaces with sports halls and exercise areas. You can’t even get a pint around here
Party Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre
Ash Sakula’s Carnival Arts Centre is Luton’s answer to Notting Hill – buzzing with life and invention and a haven for stiltwalkers and other forms of streetlife
Rivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio’s flamboyant design for York St John University’s new quadrangle in England’s most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it’s built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
Michael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett school – London’s first Building Schools for the Future project – succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There’s probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
Cost of school refurbishment: case study
They might not have the glamour of new-build, but refurbishments, such as this one at Castle Hill school in Kent, have their wow factor too - nowhere more so than on price. Ike Ijeh sums it up
The new arrival: Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital
Weighing in at £585m, Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital was expected to be a difficult birth. Instead, it has been delivered with few complications, no trips to casualty, and ahead of its due date. Thomas Lane hands round the cigars
Penoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon
Video: Westminster Academy by AHMM
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris design for this new London academy won Building’s Public Project of the Year award
Plane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson’s spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
University of Hertfordshire campus
The University of Hertfordshire is no stranger to innovation, as its de Havilland campus demonstrates.
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Free school conversions: Making the switch
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University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
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Rebuilding Iraq: Mott MacDonald's Marsh Arab school
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Cost of school refurbishment: case study
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The hospitable: Foster + Partners’ Circle Bath hospital
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The new arrival: Balfour Beatty’s Birmingham PFI hospital
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Sunderland university student union: All bar none
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Penoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
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Party Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre
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Video: Westminster Academy by AHMM
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Rivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
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Plane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
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Michael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
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University of Hertfordshire campus
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Skanska wins £25m Bath Spa University job
Firm beat off competition from Bam, Cowlin, Leadbitter and Sir Robert McAlpine to win the project
Shepherd Construction wins £12m Grantham academy job
The project in Grantham will include demolition of the current building and construction of a new two storey block
Bruntwood to deliver £60m Manchester Business School development
BDP-masterplanned project will include a four-star hotel, conference venue and education centre
Kingerlee start work on £12.5m college at University of Oxford
Bennetts-designed blocks will house 54 postgraduate students
Cool school: Ashmount primary school, Islington
Construction is due to start on Ashmount primary school in Islington, London.
Morgan Sindall scoops £17m university job
University of Sussex picks contractor to start on 8000m2 project in October
Stride Treglown student tower wins planning in Preston
The £13m scheme by developer contractor Marcus Worthington will have 275 student bedrooms and studios
Vinci wins contract for Nottingham Trent student accommodation
UPP awards Vinci contract to deliver 727 new student residences designed by Church Lukas
Manchester approves 33-storey student tower
Second tallest building in Manchester will provide accommodation for 520 students
Circle Hospital, Reading by Bryden Wood: Outside the Circle
Architect Bryden Wood has gained detailed planning consent for a £24m private hospital in Reading
Holmes submits plans for £33m Erskine school
BAM Construction could start on site in January 2011 on Park Mains High School in Renfrewshire
Bioenergy Centre, Nottingham: Food for thought
Work started this week on a £25m Bioenergy Centre for the University of Nottingham at its Sutton Bonington campus.
Project of the month: Birmingham's £2.4bn BSF programme
The achievement of financial close on the Catalyst Lend Lease project shows banks still have an appetite for large-scale BSF
