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News • News • 7 Feb 2023
Office of Political Innovation takes a playful and irreverent design approach to design for children
On the outskirts of Madrid in Encinar de los Reyes, Reggio School by the Office of Political Innovation is a bold and whimsical school that stimulates the imagination with elements such as cork walls, concrete arches, eccentric roofs, and round windows. The six-story pilot project for the Reggio Center for Pedagogical Research and Innovation is modeled on the Italian education model established in the 1940s by Loris Malaguzzi that encourages child-led forms of learning.
José Hevia
Firm principal Andrés Jaque, also the head of Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, conceived the building as a ‘vertical city’, with each level offering a different feel and architectur... More
News • News • 22 Jul 2022
Shoe Quarter by CIVIC Architects brings the cultural history of shoemaking back to its roots
The new Shoe Quarter by CIVIC Architects brings a new and innovative knowledge centre for shoe design, fashion, and production back to the Dutch leather and shoe city of Waalwijk. Situated in a listed building complex originally designed by Alexander Kropholler in the 1930s, the partially renovated, transformed, and expanded building displays a collection of 12,000 shoes alongside exhibitions, a knowledge centre, library, workshop space, laboratories for design and prototyping, as well as a museum café.
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Initially becoming a hub of production through the industrial development of the local craft of shoe craftsmanship, Waalwijk has in recent times seen shoe production disappear as an industry. A key aim of the Shoe Quar... More