The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
David Chipperfield completes renewal of Royal Academy Schools
The project, with Julian Harrap Architects as heritage consultant, restores historic studios and creates a new suite of dedicated workshops
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Nex and Donald Insall refurbish George Gilbert Scott-designed library in Oxford
The refurbishment of Exeter College Library combines sensitive restoration with modern additions, including a new entrance
BDP reworks two Brutalist buildings as ‘creative heart’ for Coventry University
BDP’s new home for Coventry University’s College of Arts and Society has a new link extension which provides a public-facing hub and display space
Fashion forward: Allies and Morrison’s new home for London College of Fashion
The building in Stratford, east London, provides over 40,000m² of space for 5,000 students over 17 storeys, bringing together departments previously dispersed across six sites
AWW retrofits east London office for adult education charity
AWW has adapted an east London office to create a new adult learning and community care hub for the Mary Ward Centre charity
Witherford Watson Mann completes sensitive addition to one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges
Witherford Watson Mann has performed an intelligent and farsighted human-scaled retrofit at Clare College, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Philip Vile and Philipp Ebeling
Invisible Studio and Mole unwrap new base for Forest School Camps charity
Mole Architects and Invisible Studio have completed a £1.2 million low-carbon, low-energy base for educational charity Forest School Camps (FSC) at Haddenham in the Cambridgeshire Fens
Urban Oasis: Rivington Street Studio’s secondary school at Silvertown
Amid the regeneration of east London’s docklands, the practice has built Oasis Academy Silvertown, a building on an incredibly small site that nevertheless achieves a civic presence, says Fran Williams. Photography by Rachel Ferriman
In nature’s embrace: Loader Monteith’s woodland school for vulnerable teenagers
With their Learning Hub for the Harmeny Education Trust, Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have created a supportive woodland environment for teenagers who struggle with mainstream education, writes Chloe Spiby Loh.
ADP retrofits West Midlands office building into music school
A five-storey office building in Sandwell has been completely remodelled internally, providing facilities for 870 students, including a triple-height performance hall within an existing atrium