Education

Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers’ KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. BIG’s design was chosen as part of an open call,

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio’s design for its first building in South America, which was informed by indigenous weaving practices. Renderings of the seven-storey building planned for Bogotá in Colombia show a facade made of a series of colourful, undulating columns. Several readers were shocked by the cultural reference points

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UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university building with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices. Located in Bogotá, along the city’s Calle 72 thoroughfare, the seven-storey building will be part of the Universidad Ean and will host the school of sustainable design and

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UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university building with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices. Located in Bogotá, along the city’s Calle 72 thoroughfare, the seven-storey building will be part of the Universidad Ean and will host the school of sustainable design and

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US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and “prioritized inclusion”, drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Buffalo office of Cannon Design completed the 163,000-square foot (15140-square metre) Western Michigan University Student Center in 2023. “The primary concept

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US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and “prioritized inclusion”, drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Buffalo office of Cannon Design completed the 163,000-square foot (15140-square metre) Western Michigan University Student Center in 2023. “The primary concept

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