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School Architecture
Major Educational Design Developments from around the World
Guide to School Architecture
We've selected what we feel are the key examples of School Architecture. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed education buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary Education buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
We have 4 pages of School Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.
School Buildings : news + key projects
School Building Developments : A-E
School Building Designs : F-N
School Architecture : O-Z (this page)
School Architecture Designs
Education Architecture - latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
School CEIP Josep Guinovart, Castelldefels, Catalunya, north east Spain
Design: Pich-Aguilera Architects

photo : Simon Garcia • arqfoto
School CEIP Josep Guinovart - 23 Jul 2012
The proposed implementation of the project responds clearly to the specific characteristics of the site. The developed project incorporates favourable solutions and spatial relationships to external and internal requirements for an educational activity. The proposed solution for the whole building is to divide it in two sections each one associated with a teaching activity; the kindergarten is organized in one story building and located in the south part of the site, and the primary school program is distributed in two stories in the north.
Panyaden School, Chiang Mai, Thailand
24H > architecture

photo © Ally Taylor / Panyaden School
Thailand School Building
In the lush green surroundings of a former fruit orchard, where Thailand’s highest mountains meet the flat rice fields, Panyaden School contracted this Dutch architecture studio to design its environmentally friendly school buildings. This 5,000 m2 primary school consists of an informal arrangement of pavilions, organized along pathways inspired by the shape of the tropical antler horn fern. This original design has since evolved organically to its final form which is still in keeping with its original purpose of creating buildings from earth’s elements and shapes that are an ode to nature’s beauty.
Sølvgade School, Copenhagen, Denmark
C. F. Moller Architects

photo from architects
Sølvgade School Building
Denmark's oldest school, the listed Sølvgade School built in 1847, close to King Christian IV's famous historic naval barracks, Nyboder, in Copenhagen, has for many years been lacking space and modern facilities. C. F. Moller has carefully renovated the school and done an extension which in its form and colors is true to the surroundings, but also adds a modernistic twist to the school.
Thor Heyerdahl School, Larvik, Norway
Schmidt Hammer Lassen

picture from architects
Thor Heyerdahl School
The Thor Heyerdahl School of Advanced and Further Education in Larvik, Norway has been inaugurated. The 33,400 m2 new school, designed by the Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, is the largest new school building in Norway. Schmidt hammer lassen won the international competition for the school including a 4000 spectator sports arena in 2005. One year later, the company won the competition for a school building of City of Westminster College. The new school is pointing to the future as a social and educational experiment. The students of the technical educations are deliberately mixed with college students aspiring for later university degrees. Thus the architects have made Norwegian thoughts on educational reform concrete.
Tianjin Xiqing Elementary School, China
Vector Architect studio

photograph from architect
Tianjin Xiqing School
The competition program called for a design of an elementary school of 48 classes. The major functions include regular classrooms, special program classrooms, cafeteria, training gymnasium, administration areas and an outdoor exercise field. Our goal is to establish a unique place within the school that encourages interaction between the students and teachers through their daily learning and teaching life.
Key Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
Oldham Schools PFI project, England
Architects Co-Partnership Ltd

photo from CABE
Oldham Schools Architecture, Manchester
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Oslo International School Building, Norway
Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter

picture from architects
Oslo International School
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Paredes School, Portugal
Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes

photographs : Nelson Garrido
Paredes School Building
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Peer Per School, Belgium
Bekkering Adams Architects

picture from architects
Peer Per School
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Primetime Nursery School, Brazil
Marcio Kogan

building photo : Nelson Kon
Brazilian nursery school, São Paulo
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School Brug, Belgium
UArchitects + LENS°ASS architecten

picture from architects
School Brug
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School in Campinas, Brazil
UNA arquitetos

image : Nelson Kon
School in Campinas, São Paulo state
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School in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna
franz zt

image : lisa rastl © franz zt gmbh
School in Deutsch-Wagram
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School in Paspels, Switzerland
Valerio Olgiati

building photo © Archive Olgiati
Paspels School Building
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Tellus Nursery School, Stockholm, Sweden
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

picture : Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
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Templestowe Park Primary, Australia
McBride Charles Ryan

photograph © John Gollings
Templestowe Park Primary School
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Wellington Academy, England
BDP

picture from architects
Wellington Academy Building
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Westminster Academy, London, UK
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

photograph © Tim Soar
Westminster Academy Naim Dangoor Ctr. |
Whitehead Building, University of London
A-EM Studio Ltd

photo from CABE
Goldsmiths College Building, UK |
School Architecture - No Images
Education Buildings, alphabetical:
Oxford Academy School, England
HKR Architects
Oxford Academy School building
St Bridget's Montessori School, Sri Lanka
1963
Geoffrey Bawa with Laki Senanayake
Sculzendorf school redevelopment, Berlin, Germany
2008
zanderroth architekten
Strawberry Vale School, Canada
1997
Patkau Architects Inc, Vancouver
Teresian School / Col-legi de les Tersianes, Barcelona, Spain
1894
Antoni Gaudí, Architect
More School Architecture welcome
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Education Architecture - Links to key buildings
Langley Academy Building
Hazelwood School, Glasgow, Scotland
Nursery School Buildings : Designs

picture : Åke E:son Lindman
Better School Design - Article for e-architect

photo : Article 25
French School Lycee Franco Japonais
Taiwan Architecture Awards
Scottish Education Architecture - Selection
Craigmillar School Building
Edinburgh School of Art
Royal High School Building
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary School Buildings page welcome:
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School Architecture - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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