Following our previous visit to San Francisco-based WRNS Studio, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Connecticut this week to explore the work of Newman Architects. Based in New Haven, the firm was founded in 1964 with the principle of “creating functional, nurturing environments... View full entry

The body in charge of K-12 planning and construction in New York City was recently profiled by the AIA New York as it prepares for a surge in student enrollment that’s expected over the next decade. The New York School Construction Authority (or SCA) is a specialty city agency that employs... View full entry

Caltech has held the groundbreaking ceremony for the HOK-designed Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement in Pasadena, California. Upon its projected completion in 2025, the center is set to become “one of the world’s most advanced hubs for studying quantum science and technology.”... View full entry

A team comprising SCAPE, Architecture Research Office (ARO), and Colloqate has unveiled a vision for a high school campus in Brooklyn with anti-racism, climate action, sustainable food systems, environmental justice, and experimental learning at the heart of its curriculum. The Launch School at... View full entry

MAD Architects has completed the YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten in Beijing as a part of a commission in 2017. The project site, covering an area of 9,275 square meters, consisted of an original 18th-century Siheyuan courtyard, an adjacent replica courtyard built in the 1990s, and a... View full entry

Previously covered on Archinect, the Plant Sciences Building at Washington State University has officially opened. Designed and constructed by design-build team of Skanska and LMN Architects, the facility will be the new center for interdisciplinary research that will integrate faculty and... View full entry

School/House was designed in response to COVID-19 as schools across the globe are struggling to meet the spatial demands of social distancing. According to the School/House website, SOM's architects and engineers worked closely together to create an alternative to existing modular classrooms on... View full entry

ZAS Architects, in collaboration with Denmark-based CEBRA Architecture, has unveiled the design for a new student-centered learning and support hub at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC). The new facility is a "learning landscape" that encourages flexible education through an... View full entry

Grimshaw, in collaboration with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting as architect of record has unveiled the initial designs of the new 21,000-square-foot arts complex for Santa Monica College (SMC) in Southern California. The building will replace an existing car park and serve as the... View full entry

The new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine building in Pasadena, California is nearing completion.  Back in February of last year, the medical giant released renderings and a virtual tour of the new structure, which was designed by Yazdani Studio. The four-story building is due to be... View full entry

The Urban Projects Bureau (UPB) has recently completed its second building at Graveney School in Tooting, London. The Observatory Block came from a long-term collaboration between the school and UPB. The UPB team recieved funding for a new 8-classroom teaching block in 2017, which after additional... View full entry

Hardly any other American city is as closely associated with higher education as Boston, with some of its universities making frequent appearances in Archinect's academia-related news coverage. As part of our month-long editorial Spotlight on Boston, why not take a look at ten standout... View full entry

With school shootings becoming a point of concern for many across the country, K-12 design methodologies are beginning to address the issue as well.  Fruitport High School in Fruitport, Michigan, for example, is undergoing a $48 million renovation project aimed at incorporating some of these... View full entry