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Project • By Bean Buro • Offices
Qurio / Cultivating Curiosity
“Fairytales and curiosity inspired the design; ideas such as ‘breadcrumbs’ as colourful geometries on the floor, ‘keyholes’ windows for peeking through walls, and curvy white acoustic ceiling panels that float above like clouds.” — Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, co-founder of Bean Buro
“We created an adaptable environment for different spatial setups. The idea is similar to a theatre stage. Young learners can choose how they would like to engage with the class.” — Lorène Faure, co-founder of Bean Buro
Bean Buro
The Brief: A curious learning centre
We were tasked to create an inventive learning centre for Qurio—a high-quality enrichment school for children aged four... More
News • News • 8 Feb 2021
Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre responds to its historic context with playful modules and pyramidal roofs
Located in proximity to the historic city centre of Durham, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre offers innovative teaching and learning space at Durham University. The town’s iconic cathedral and historic building grain factor in throughout the project. Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, the centre was delivered in a team collaboration with Space Architects and Galliford Try.
Jack Hobhouse
In 2017, a new University Strategy was launched to offer a strategic direction for Durham University over ten years. FaulknerBrowns were engaged to support and inform this development with the development of a new University Masterplan. Central to the University Strategy and Masterplan was th... More
Project • By bureau SLA • Primary Schools
Nature and Environment Learning Centre
bureau SLA designed a school building that is a teacher itself. In the Nature and Environment Learning Centre in Amsterdam sustainability can be easily experienced and understood by children. In Amsterdam, every primary school student is provided with his or her own 6m2 garden to care for. These students are also enrolled in classes where they learn about nature and the environment, held in one of the buildings dedicated to the purpose throughout Amsterdam. As of this year though, Amsterdam Noord becomes host to a new building designed specifically for this purpose: the Nature & Environment Learning Centre.This new building replaces two temporary structures (which housed the program for the previous five years). In addition to bein... More