The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Eton College science faculty reworked by CSK Architects
Three distinct department buildings have been refurbished and extended around a new shared four-storey space
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Holding on to arcadia: PUP at Surrey Docks Farm
On a modest budget, PUP Architects has rehabilitated and extended derelict structures at the south London city farm to bring a new lease of life to this vital community hub. Photography by Simone Bossi
Norfolk school block designed by DK-CM echoes postwar past
The cross-laminated timber building for Wroughton Academy in Great Yarmouth links two previously separate schools
Allies and Morrison completes student housing for Wadham College, Oxford
The Dorothy Wadham Building is a residential quad for undergraduates on a site in the Iffley Fields, south-east of Oxford
Urban Projects Bureau’s £2.2m Tooting school block completes
The 790m² Observatory Block at Graveney School uses walkways, terraces and different teaching levels to facilitate the teaching of STEAM subjects
David Morley Architects completes sports complex for Wimbledon school
The £21 million building includes swimming pool, gym and two-storey central pavilion
Child Graddon Lewis’s mixed-use Paddington block includes UK’s tallest school
The Dudley House scheme for Westminster City Council includes 197 affordable homes, a permanent home for Marylebone Boys’ Secondary School, a church and retail unit
FaulknerBrowns completes building with asymmetric pyramidal roof for Durham University
The 8,000m² Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre is formed of 11 modules which break down its volume on a sensitive site
Fraser Brown MacKenna science block opens at University of East Anglia
The £20 million facility at the western end of UEA’s parkland campus provides flexible undergraduate teaching laboratories plus more informal teaching space
Grimshaw transforms its furniture factory into building for Bath Spa University
The architect’s conversion of its 1970s Herman Miller furniture factory into the new home for Bath Schools of Art and Design realises the practice founder’s original intention – to make it adaptable to changes of use, says Fran Williams. Photography Paul Raftery