The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Noises off: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Birmingham Conservatoire
This £57 million conservatoire successfully filters out the sounds of its busy urban context, writes Rob Wilson
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Levitt Bernstein and Burwell Deakins complete latest phases in UCL’s campus transformation
The newest spaces in University College London’s ambitious building programme restore a lost connection through the campus
Make completes University of Oxford’s first BREEAM Outstanding building
This 7,500m² medical research building is dedicated to analytical research into the causes, consequences, prevention and treatment of disease
Fit for purpose: University of Birmingham sports centre
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Sports and Fitness Centre is well weighted to its site, writes Rob Wilson. Photography by Hufton + Crow and Paul Riddle
Turning over a new leaf: Collective Architecture’s Toronto Primary School
A verdant theme runs through Collective Architecture’s impressive improvements to this primary school in Livingston, writes Alan Dunlop. Photography Keith Hunter
Haverstock’s Alexandra Centre: an act of political will
Haverstock’s special needs facility for 16 to 25-year-olds pays its dues to Neave Brown’s celebrated Camden estate, writes Jon Astbury. Photography by Simon Kennedy
From nursery to sixth form: Stride Treglown’s Ysgol Bae Baglan
The south Wales ‘all-through’ school shares many facilities with its local community, writes Jon Astbury. Photography by James Morris
Hampshire County Council Architects’ Civitas Academy transforms a neglected site
Formerly a goods yard, the site close to Reading Central Station is now a primary school and community centre designed by Hampshire County Council’s architects’ department
Haverstock gives new lease of life to dilapitated Islington school
The new Moreland school colourfully declares its presence to the estate
Cartwright Pickard transforms Royal Holloway’s former boiler house
The distinctive structure in Egham, Surrey now houses a café and events space