School

BIG has had a remarkably busy year and is back yet again with a new project called The Heights. The public school, which also involved Leo A Daly as executive architect, has an unusual design that fans out to create outdoor terrace areas.

Shortly after completing the University of Massachusetts' Business Innovation Hub, Bjarke Ingels Group has gone back to school with another educational project named Glasir. The building hosts three different schools on a steep hillside plot overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Faroe Islands.

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) recently completed a new extension for the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Named the Business Innovation Hub, the building offers additional study space and social areas, and is defined by an eye-catching copper facade.

New research has revealed that a short night sleep with an afternoon nap is better for a teenager's mood and cognition than a longer, continuous night’s sleep. On the other hand, the split sleep students reported higher glucose levels, a marker that points to increased diabetes risk.​

In one of the most comprehensive studies to date examining teenage sleep patterns and high school start times, it's been revealed that later starts increased sleep duration and improved overall attendance and grades.

A wooden boarding school dormitory located on the edge of a rainforest in northern Brazil has been declared the world's best new building. Children Village was chosen from a longlist of 62 projects to receive the prestigious RIBA 2018 International Prize.

​In 2017, China revealed an ambitious masterplan to lead the world in both AI research and deployment by 2030.​ It has been revealed recently that several new technological innovations are now being tested in Chinese schools redefining how children can be educated in the 21st century.​

The spaces where we learn are evolving with a growing emphasis on connectivity, collaboration and sustainable design. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has celebrated these principles by announcing the winners of its annual Library Building Awards and Education Facility Design Awards.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled plans for a new primary school. Consisting of large vaulted structures that promise a pleasant and daylight-filled learning environment, the Lushan Primary School in Jiangxi Province, China, will also be built with help from an industrial robot.

MB Architecture harnessed its extensive experience with shipping container-based projects while designing a new media lab for Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Comprising four recycled containers, the prefabricated building was delivered in two parts and installed in just half a day.

The impressively sustainable Copenhagen International School, by C.F. Møller Architects, has an exterior almost completely covered in solar panels. These produce over half of the building's required electricity – no mean feat in a Scandinavian country like Denmark.

UK-based Young Driver recently unveiled its production model of the Firefly, featuring many of the same features found on a typical car for adults but sized and built for kids as young as 5 years old.