The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Building study: Bennetts Associates retrofits the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
With its Edinburgh Futures Institute retrofit, Bennetts Associates has breathed new life into one of the Scottish capital’s major architectural landmarks
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Hassell completes ‘flagship’ business school in Glasgow
Hassell has completed a six-storey building on the University of Glasgow’s Gilmorehill campus in the city’s West End
Adrian James Architects completes Arts and Crafts-inspired girls’ boarding house
The distinctive design of Queen Elizabeth Hall at Shrewsbury School combines features such as arched openings and chequerboard fenestration, steep-pitched roofs, dormers and tall ventilation stacks
Haworth Tompkins’ £14.5m ‘transformation’ of Warburg Institute unveiled
Haworth Tompkins’ refurb creates a 140-seat auditorium, new gallery and extension hosting library rooms for the centre, which is dedicated to the study of art and culture
Hopkins completes School of Data Science in Virginia
Hopkins Architects’ new building at the University of Virginia, designed in association with VMDO, incorporates a portico and brick elevations designed to reference the campus’s Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda
Jestico + Whiles completes £73 million Cayman Islands secondary school
The practice won a competition to design and complete the largest school on the islands after work on a previous scheme was left half-built in 2012
Ahead of the curve: Brighton College arts centre
Dutch practice krft, working with Nicholas Hare Architects as delivery architect, has created a unique and striking performing arts centre for private school Brighton College, says Rob Wilson
WonKy creates woodland education space using shipping container and parachute
The Clearing in Bexley, south-east London, is a multifunctional education space for teaching the importance of woodland management and conservation
Sam Jacob Studio refurbishes Kent School of Architecture studios
The new teaching spaces for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Kent in Canterbury incorporate influences from the Bauhaus to Warhol’s Factory
Stanton Williams hands over Emmanuel College additions
Stanton Williams has taken the wraps off its £21 million part re-use, part new-build project at Emmanuel College, Cambridge