University architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about university architecture
Project • By Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes • Universities
Science Complex – MIL Campus
The Science Complex, the cornerstone of Université de Montréal's new MIL campus, is a flagship project for the metropolis. This distinctive scientific teaching and research facility, located on the site of the former Outremont marshalling yard, is the starting point for the revitalization of an entire sector.
Stéphane Brügger
The architectural design transforms the site to support the liveliness of this bustling environment, where students, researchers and professors cohabit and collaborate, and where uses are numerous and varied. The spatial composition of the public circulation is conceived as a ramification, spreading out over the entire site and crossing the public spaces at different levels. Classrooms,... More
Project • By Todd Architects • Universities
Queen's Business School Student Hub
In Belfast’s leafy Queen’s Quarter, TODD Architects has designed a new Student Hub and learning space. Part of Queen’s University Belfast’s wider Business School campus in south Belfast, the innovative and future-focused facility responds to the changing needs of an ever-growing postgraduate student body. A low-energy, ecological, and sustainable design approach was prioritised from the outset, resulting in the Student Hub achieving a BREEAM Excellent standard.
Donal McCann
Design and layout
The Queen's Business School Student Hub is located in the university’s Riddel Hall campus, a 10-minute walk from the main university campus. A former residence for female students, Riddel Hall is a Grade II l... More
News • News • 28 Oct 2024
De Zwarte Hond completes circular renovation and extension of 1970s Leiden University building
Architectural studio De Zwarte Hond has completed a considered circular renovation and extension of Leiden University’s former “Cluster Zuid” (South Cluster) building. The renovation project emphasizes reuse and sustainability.
De Zwarte Hond
Designed by Dutch architect Joop van Stigt in the late 1970s, the Cluster Zuid building is a representative example of structuralism in architecture. (Emphasizing the relationship between buildings and their social context, structuralism is focused on how buildings shape human interaction and behavior.) Following a thorough renovation program, the Cluster Zuid building reopened on 8 October 2024 as the Herta Mohr Building. (A Leiden University alumnus, Herta Mohr is th... More
News • News • 26 Sep 2024
KAAN Architecten completes healthy Education Centre in Groningen
Dutch architectural studio KAAN Architecten recently completed the Education Centre University of Groningen. The new Education Centre is the main entrance building to the Healthy Ageing Campus. The centre is designed to support learning, promote health, and foster social interaction — embracing these principles, its architecture prioritizes the well-being of more than 2,000 students and faculty members. The use of sustainable materials with a timeless quality enhances the centre’s healthy appeal.
Sebastian van Damme
Sebastian van Damme
KAAN Architecten
KAAN Architecten
Groningen is a city in the northern Netherlands with a large student population. The Healthy Ageing Campus is located on... More
Project • By Flad Architects • Laboratories
Ohio University Chemistry Building/Clippinger Labs
Ohio University recently completed a multiphase expansion and renovation project, which included constructing a 72,000-square-foot new Chemistry Building and renovating the existing Clippinger Laboratories building. Flad Architects collaborated with architect of record BHDP on all phases of the project.
Cory Klein
Cory Klein
Originally constructed in 1965, the existing Clippinger Laboratories building housed the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Geography, Geological Sciences, and Physics & Astronomy. In recent years it had outlived its original life expectancy. The university needed new and updated space to accommodate enrollment growth and the equipment required to invest in innovative research.
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News • News • 15 Aug 2024
KoningEizenberg designs “neighborhood hang-out” Student Pavilion for University of Melbourne
Santa Monica-based architectural studio KoningEizenberg Architecture designed the University of Melbourne’s new Student Pavilion as a kind of “neighborhood hang-out”.
Peter Bennetts
KoningEizenberg Architecture
The 27,000-square-feet (2,508-square-meter) Student Pavilion is part of a wider Student Precinct on the University of Melbourne campus. The pavilion creates an informal home for students and expands services for those who commute daily, providing casual dining, study, meeting, and event spaces. The pavilion’s design is driven by student input with insights on diversity, gender equity, well-being, and sustainability.
KoningEizenberg Architecture
The 225,000-square-feet (20,903... More
News • News • 27 Jun 2024
TODD Architects designs future-focused and sustainable Business School Student Hub in Belfast
TODD Architects has designed a new Student Hub as part of Queen’s University Belfast’s wider Business School campus in south Belfast. The innovative and future-focused facility responds to the changing needs of an ever growing postgraduate student body and promotes sustainable building design.
Donal McCann
TODD Architects
The new Queen's Business School Student Hub sits within Queen’s University’s Riddel Hall campus, a 10-minute walk from the university’s main campus. A former residence for female students, Riddel Hall is a Grade II listed red brick building set on a 13-acre (5.3-hectare) site surrounded by mature woodland. The Student Hub is sited on the campus’s southern boundary &mda... More
News • News • 20 May 2024
Filippo Taidelli Architetto designs transparent “knowledge hangar” near Milan
Milan-based Filippo Taidelli Architetto designed the Roberto Rocca Innovation Building as part of the campus of Humanitas University, an international medical school. Located in Pieve Emanuele, a comune in the Italian region of Lombardy and part of the Metropolitan City of Milan, the new building is characterized by its transparent facade and wooden load-bearing construction. The design concept is that of a “knowledge hangar”, a structure with reconfigurable spaces that respond to Humanitas University’s ever evolving needs and the rapid pace of technological innovation.
Giovanni Hanninen
Filippo Taidelli Architetto
Described as “a place of learning and exchange where science and innovation meet the... More
Project • By Moriyama Teshima Architects • Universities
Goldring Student Centre, University of Toronto
The Goldring Student Centre at Victoria University, at the University of Toronto, is a renovation and expansion of the existing 1952 Student Union building known as Wymilwood, a historically listed building by Eric Arthur. Designed to LEED Silver, the new Student Centre doubles the size of the original building and introduces contemporary and accessible, indoor and outdoor student and administrative spaces.
Tom Arban
Tom Arban
Tom Arban
Formal spaces include the offices of the Dean of Students, Student President and Governing Council, Alumni Affairs, and other governing bodies. A variety of informal spaces, such as student lounges, study and seminar rooms, as well as outdoor patios and terraces, provide users alternative, le... More
News • News • 26 Apr 2024
Tilburg University inaugurates the Marga Klompé building constructed from wood
The Marga Klompé building, designed by Powerhouse Company for Tilburg University in the Netherlands, has recently opened. Except for the natural stone facade, the 5000 square meter building is entirely constructed from wood.
Sebastian van Damme
Sebastian van Damme
Sebastian van Damme
The building is named after the first female Dutch minister, who received an honorary doctorate from the former Catholic University of Tilburg in 1982. According to the architects, the 33 by 33-meter cube serves as a tribute to another renowned campus structure and the first building realized on the campus, the Cobbenhagen building, designed by Jos. Bedaux in 1962.
Within the nearly energy-neutral building the program i... More
News • News • 19 Mar 2024
Allies and Morrison conceives new London College of Fashion home as a 21st century factory atelier
London-based architectural practice Allies and Morrison has completed a new home for the London College of Fashion (part of UAL — University of the Arts London). Located in the city’s East Bank cultural quarter, the college is conceived as a 21st century factory atelier.
Simon Menges
The new building marks the first time the London College of Fashion’s departments, previously in six different locations, have come together under one roof. Spread across seventeen stories, the building provides more than 40,000 square meters (430,556 square feet) of space for 5,000 students and faculty. “Through robust and flexible architecture, it aims to suit the long-term needs and ambitions of one of the UK’s m... More
News • News • 14 Dec 2023
Benthem Crouwel Architects designs a circular and energy-neutral building at Amsterdam Science Park
Amsterdam-based Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed a circular and energy-neutral building at Amsterdam Science Park. Named LAB42, it is the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) new central hub for digital innovation and AI. The multifunctional building is constructed in a way that is entirely flexible, sustainable, and demountable.
Photo: Jannes Linders
Amsterdam Science Park is a collaborative initiative of UvA, the municipality of Amsterdam, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. LAB42 houses students, staff, and researchers from UvA’s Informatics Institute, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, and the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence. The building also hosts busines... More
News • Detail • 2 Nov 2023
Detail: Woven carbon and glass fiber facade of Texoversum School of Textiles
The Texoversum School of Textiles at Reutlingen University is a teaching, research, and innovation center. The new Texoversum building is part of a wider university campus expansion plan and features a highly expressive, cutting-edge woven facade. A collaboration between Munich-based architectural practice Allmannwappner, Frankfurt-based architectural practice Menges Scheffler Architekten, and Stuttgart-based structural engineers Jan Knippers Ingenieure, Texoversum is the first building of its kind with a facade of woven carbon and glass fiber tiles. The remarkable structure places textiles in the vanguard of technological development.
Brigida Gonzalez
allmannwappner
The design theme of Texoversum School of Textiles is re... More
News • News • 23 Oct 2023
LMN Architects completes Interactive Learning Pavilion at UC Santa Barbara
Seattle-based LMN Architects has completed the development of an Interactive Learning Pavilion at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). A state-of-the-art educational facility, the pavilion is part of the University’s Pacific shoreline campus.
Patrick Price
Tim Griffith
The new Interactive Learning Pavilion is the first dedicated classroom building to be constructed on the UCSB campus since 1967. The 90,000-square-feet (8,361-square-meter) pavilion provides 2,000 classroom seats across a mix of contemporary learning environments, including: five tiered lecture theaters, three active learning spaces, twenty flexible classrooms, a technical office suite, and informal teaching spaces. LMN Architects descr... More
News • News • 18 Oct 2023
The University of Warwick’s Faculty of Arts Building fosters engagement across the arts
The new Faculty of Arts Building at the University of Warwick, England, is a celebration of the arts: its architecture is a creative expression of collaboration and exploration. Shortlisted for the 2023 Stirling Prize, the building was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. At its nucleus, a grand sculptural timber staircase criss-crosses and spirals upwards around a series of studio, exhibition, and event spaces. “Originally conceived as a central ‘cabinet of curiosities’, it is now fondly described by its users as the ‘tree of knowledge’, reflecting an early sketch with a tree at the heart of the building,” says Andy Theobald, Partner at FCBStudios. “Its central trunk and branches reach out ac... More