The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Building study: David Brownlow Theatre by Jonathan Tuckey Design
A studied miscellany of materials and styles add performance spaces and a new civic presence to a prep school near Newbury, writes Jay Merrick.
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Office-to-nursery conversion completed by Harp & Harp
This new nursery at Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire for childcare provider The Wonderworks caters specifically for the film industry and uses a palette of robust natural materials in its design
Surman Weston turns caretaker’s cottage into charity cookery school
The Surman Weston-designed Hackney School of Food, an ambitious charity-backed cookery school for children, has just completed in Clapton for just £309,000
Performing arts centre for London school completed by Broadway Malyan
The £3 million project has transformed a Hampstead school hall into a fully flexible professional-standard concert venue
SimpsonHaugh with Reiach and Hall complete engineering building in Preston
The teaching and research facility at the University of Central Lancashire is designed to provide students with real-world experience
Walters & Cohen creates ‘university for school pupils’ at St Paul’s
Walters and Cohen Architects has added a major new energy-efficient building to St Paul’s School that supports the school’s vision for learning, discussion and interaction to happen both inside and outside the classroom. Photography by Dennis Gilbert
Henley Halebrown completes Hackney school and housing scheme
East London-based practice Henley Halebrown has completed Hackney New Primary School, a 8,180m2 mixed-use project with affordable housing in Hackney’s Kingsland Road Conservation Area
Glenn Howells completes £42m teaching hub for University College Birmingham
Glenn Howells Architects has completed Moss House, a new red brick teaching hub forming the second phase in the development of University College Birmingham’s new campus
NORR creates £29m Microsoft-affiliated school in Perth
Bertha Park High School is the first entirely new school to be built in Scotland in 25 years
Allies and Morrison completes 13-storey research hub for Imperial College at White City
The Sir Michael Uren Hub, which provides flexible laboratory space for biomedical science and engineering research, is named after the pioneer of the cement substitute GGBS