Education

Leers Weinzapfel completes America’s first cross-laminated timber academic building

April 28, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s new design school is the first academic building in the US to have a structural frame made of cross-laminated timber, according to its architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates. The Design Building is situated within the university’s campus in the city of Amherst, in central Massachusetts. It is the first cross-laminated timber

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Leers Weinzapfel completes America’s first cross-laminated timber academic building

April 28, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s new design school is the first academic building in the US to have a structural frame made of cross-laminated timber, according to its architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates. The Design Building is situated within the university’s campus in the city of Amherst, in central Massachusetts. It is the first cross-laminated timber

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Leers Weinzapfel completes America’s first cross-laminated timber academic building

April 28, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s new design school is the first academic building in the US to have a structural frame made of cross-laminated timber, according to its architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates. The Design Building is situated within the university’s campus in the city of Amherst, in central Massachusetts. It is the first cross-laminated timber

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Ma Yansong invites architecture students to apply for 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship

April 28, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Dezeen promotion: Beijing architecture studio MAD is calling for students to apply for its travel fellowships, allowing them to research architecture in countries all around the world. MAD founder Ma Yansong launched the MAD Architecture Travel Fellowship programme in 2009. For 2017, it offers five international architecture students the chance to visit China, and sponsors five Chinese students to travel abroad.

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Berman Guedes Stretton upgrades Powell & Moya’s modernist University of Oxford buildings

April 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Berman Guedes Stretton sought to preserve and enhance the modernist designs of buildings at two University of Oxford colleges during renovations to improve their interior layout. The Oxford- and London-based firm was invited to oversee the renovation of a building designed in 1969 by Powell & Moya, a firm best known for its Skylon tensegrity structure at the 1951 Festival of Britain.

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New images of van Egeraat’s Metzo College

February 7, 2007 Marcus Fairs 0

Photographer Mirjam Madiol has kindly sent us new images of Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects’ just-opened Metzo College in the Netherlands. For more details of the project, see our earlier story here. All images are © Mirjam Madiol Photography and used with permission. To see more of Madiol’s photos of the building, and other winners

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Van Egeraat school opens

February 2, 2007 Marcus Fairs 0

Metzo College, a school designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects, has opened in the Netherlands. The school, at Doetinchem in the east of the country, resembles a ziggurat with a scooped-out core containing gardens. Last week the building won the Dutch National School Building Award (Scholenbouwprijs) in the higher education category. We are waiting

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