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St Antony’s College Gateway Building, Oxford, England
Design: Bennetts Associates

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St Antony’s College Building Oxford - 14 May 2013
Construction has started on Bennetts Associates’ new Gateway Building for St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, a graduate college specialising in international relations, economics, politics and specialist areas of history.

Higher Education and University Center in Le Havre, France
Design: Baumschlager Eberle

photo : Sebastien Morel
Ecoles - Université Le Havre - 15 Apr 2013
The building is made of two twin elements, side by side, centralizing three establishments: the campus of Sciences-Politiques for undergrad education and the two schools SPI (Sciences for engineers) and INSA-Civil engineering. The architects eventually proposed to group together the three institutions in two different entities unified in one single building.

School by the Lagoon, Sri Lanka
Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates

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School by the Lagoon - 12 Apr 2013
The Two thousand Four boxing day tsunami was the worst natural disaster to hit Sri Lanka in living memory. For a country already reeling from a two and a half decade old war the timing of the tsunami could not have been worse. The East and South coasts of Sri Lanka were totally devastated with 40,000 human casualities in addition to the colossal damage caused to the road network, bridges, harbours, schools etc.

Cardiff and Vale College, Wales, UK
Design: BDP

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Cardiff and Vale College Building - 4 Mar 2013
BDP has won the competition to design the 16,000 sqm Cardiff City Centre Community Campus for Cardiff and Vale College. The college is one of the largest in Wales serving Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and this project brings together many of its activities onto a single campus in the heart of the city.

Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Design: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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Yale-NUS College Singapore - 12 Jul 2012
Yale-NUS College will be first liberal arts college in Singapore, offering four-year undergraduate degrees on a campus that integrates learning and living. This new institution, jointly created by Yale University and the National University of Singapore, will enroll up to 1,000 students. Adjacent to NUS’s University Town, the project comprises a central campus green flanked by academic and administrative buildings as well as three residential colleges, each arranged around its own courtyard.

Worcester College Building, Oxford, UK
Rick Mather Architects

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Worcester College Building - 23 Jun 2011
Design Competition to design a new Lecture Theatre and College Kitchens for Worcester College. The architecture contest sought to select an architect-led team with whom the College can work to deliver a building of architectural distinction that will be a worthy adjunct to the College’s numerous listed buildings and its beautiful grounds and gardens.

Ceylinco Sussex College, Horana, Sri Lanka
Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates

photograph : Waruna Gomis
College Building in Horana
The Site is located in Horana, overlooking the paddy fields. The brief made the project a challenging task, as it required the school to be housed in one building with classes from grade one up to O/L, a science lab, staff rooms, toilet blocks, a play area and assembly hall- which could accommodate the entire school.

School of Education Sciences, Seville, Spain
Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

photo : Gonzalo Navarro
School of Education Sciences

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