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BuckleyGrayYeoman completes performing arts centre for Highgate schoolSubscription
The professional-standard facility at Channing School is equipped with rigging and lighting that can be operated by children
Architects needed for rollout of RIBA programme to teach architecture in schoolsSubscription
The RIBA is calling for architects to help bring architecture teaching into schools as it starts to roll out a nationwide educational drive
Space to grow: Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Bellenden PrimarySubscription
The Peckham Rye building is that rare thing in London, an entirely newly-built state school, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Anthony Coleman
30.08.18: SchoolsSubscription
The latest AJ focuses on schools, with building studies of Edinburgh’s Boroughmuir High School by Allan Murray Architects; and two schools in the London Borough of Southwark: Haverstock’s Belham Primary School and Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Bellenden Primary School. PLUS We meet Patricia Brown, the behind-the-scenes fixer with big ideas for London’s future; and we look back at a controversial RIBA presidential ...
Show parents the quality of schools they should demandSubscription
School design cannot avoid being a political issue, says Paul Finch
On the waterfront: Boroughmuir High School by Allan Murray ArchitectsSubscription
Despite its restrictive canal-side site, this Edinburgh school building has an impressive clarity and airiness, says Calum Duncan. Photography Keith Hunter
Nick Baker scoops Kazakhstan school contestSubscription
Nick Baker Architects has won an international competition for a new £7.7 million addition to Haileybury’s satellite school in Astana, Kazakhstan
Scott Brownrigg completes ‘stick of rock’ academy in SurreySubscription
The £30 million Three Rivers Academy in Walton-on-Thames is described by the client as ’very much not a standard specification building’
Defects found at 19 Edinburgh council properties after Oxgangs school collapseSubscription
Inspections have discovered 19 properties owned by City of Edinburgh Council with similar issues to those at the school where a wall collapsed in 2016
‘Plastic bubble’ in Preston among 12 new post-war schools listings Subscription
Patty Hopkins’ High-Tech Fleet Infants School in Hampshire (1985) and a plastic ‘bubble’ at Kennington Primary School in Preston (1974) designed by Lancashire County Council Architects’ Department have been handed Grade II listings
Bring back clerk of works, says Scottish parliament report on school building defectsSubscription
Public bodies need to reduce the gap between themselves and building design teams and to employ a clerk of works on construction projects, according to a Scottish parliamentary committee
Labour pledges £13bn to boost schools estateSubscription
Labour has pledged £13 billion to refurbish the country’s schools and build more to meet shortfalls
07.09.17: Three schoolsSubscription
The latest AJ focuses on three school schemes: in south Wales, Stride Treglown’s all-through Ysgol Bae Baglan takes pupils from nursery through to sixth form; Collective Architecture’s improvements to the confusingly named Toronto School in Scotland include a new gym hall; while Haverstock’s Alexandra Centre for special needs pupils rejuvenates part of Neave Brown’s Camden estate. PLUS we meet Ben Derbyshire who ...
07.09.17: Three schoolsSubscription
The latest AJ focuses on three school schemes: in south Wales, Stride Treglown’s all-through Ysgol Bae Baglan takes pupils from nursery through to sixth form; Collective Architecture’s improvements to the confusingly named Toronto School in Scotland include a new gym hall; while Haverstock’s Alexandra Centre for special needs pupils rejuvenates part of Neave Brown’s Camden estate. PLUS we meet Ben Derbyshire who ...
AJ Retrofit Awards finalists revealed Part 5: Housing, health and internationalSubscription
The AJ can announce the final set of finalists vying for this year’s ‘retrofit Oscars’. Today: Housing, health and international project
AJ Retrofit Awards finalists revealed Part 4: Shops, schools, leisure and higher educationSubscription
The AJ can reveal the fourth set of finalists vying for this year’s ‘retrofit Oscars’. Today: Shops, schools, leisure and higher education
Sajid Javid asks hospitals and schools to carry out extra fire safety checksSubscription
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has asked all hospitals and schools to carry out additional fire safety checks following the Grenfell Tower tragedy
New probe to investigate safety of PFI schools across ScotlandSubscription
The design of Scottish schools built under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is due to come under fresh scrutiny – this time by members of the Scottish Parliament
Exclusive: Demolished eco-school’s design ‘fell below expected level of competence’Subscription
A zero-carbon school by White Design, demolished last year, was damaged by water ingress ‘largely due to defects in the design’, a damning report has found
Audit office calls on government to assess school design standardsSubscription
The National Audit Office (NAO) has praised the Priority Schools Building Programme’s value for money, but it called on the Department for Education to evaluate the quality of buildings produced
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