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AWW retrofits east London office for adult education charity
AWW has adapted an east London office to create a new adult learning and community care hub for the Mary Ward Centre charity
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Witherford Watson Mann completes sensitive addition to one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges
Witherford Watson Mann has performed an intelligent and farsighted human-scaled retrofit at Clare College, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Philip Vile and Philipp Ebeling
Invisible Studio and Mole unwrap new base for Forest School Camps charity
Mole Architects and Invisible Studio have completed a £1.2 million low-carbon, low-energy base for educational charity Forest School Camps (FSC) at Haddenham in the Cambridgeshire Fens
Urban Oasis: Rivington Street Studio’s secondary school at Silvertown
Amid the regeneration of east London’s docklands, the practice has built Oasis Academy Silvertown, a building on an incredibly small site that nevertheless achieves a civic presence, says Fran Williams. Photography by Rachel Ferriman
In nature’s embrace: Loader Monteith’s woodland school for vulnerable teenagers
With their Learning Hub for the Harmeny Education Trust, Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have created a supportive woodland environment for teenagers who struggle with mainstream education, writes Chloe Spiby Loh.
ADP retrofits West Midlands office building into music school
A five-storey office building in Sandwell has been completely remodelled internally, providing facilities for 870 students, including a triple-height performance hall within an existing atrium
Sheppard Robson completes £32m Edinburgh Uni flexible teaching building
Sheppard Robson has created a new heart at the centre of the University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus
NVB completes academic hub and drama studio at Hertfordshire school
This 5,000m2 development for The Haberdashers’ Boys’ School in Elstree is part of an ongoing phased masterplan and consists of two buildings and new landscaped courtyard
Avanti completes housing and special needs school for Lewisham Council
The development in Sydenham, south-east London, provides 26 homes for families with temporary housing needs and six assisted living units as well as a specialist school
Delve transforms east London commercial unit into nursery
The Nest is the conversion of a vacant commercial unit into a nursery in Royal Wharf, east London