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Jules Ferry School is a model for a sustainable learning environment

A school in France is showing the world how to use eco-friendly design to create much more than buildings. The...

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Modular Tree-House School concept connects kids with nature

Could this be the school of the future? Designer Valentino Gareri has created a concept for the Tree-House School,...

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NYC’s Bronx 1 charter school achieves LEED Silver

New York City-based CTA Architects’ sustainable renovation and expansion of the Bronx Charter School for Excellence...

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5 buildings on this Missouri campus just achieved LEED Platinum

The Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri has just reached a major sustainable building...

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University of Toronto Scarborough learning hub to welcome nature indoors

Canadian firm ZAS Architects and Denmark-based CEBRA Architecture have unveiled the design for the Instructional...

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Early learning center sustainably embraces rural New Zealand

In the rural New Zealand haven of Dairy Flat, U.K.-based architecture firm Collingridge and Smith Architects has...

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SUNY New Paltz Engineering Innovation Hub achieves LEED Gold

In New York’s Hudson Valley region, the public liberal arts college SUNY New Paltz has earned a LEED Gold certification...

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Educational center in Russia has a wind turbine and rooftop solar panels

Located in the Russian village of Khryug in southern Dagestan, the Luminary Inspiration Center is a welcomed educational...

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Sculptural aluminum roof keeps Cal Poly building cool

California State Polytechnic University's (Cal Poly) Pomona campus recently welcomed a new gateway building that...

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Energy-neutral school in Utrecht enhances biodiversity

At the Winkerlaan in Utrecht, Dutch architecture firm EVA architecten has completed SO Fier, an energy-neutral...

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Wellesley’s Global Flora greenhouse can generate all of its own energy

Boston-based architecture firm Kennedy & Violich Architecture has flipped the script for energy-intensive greenhouses...

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UNStudio unveils “future-proof” energy-generating education building for TU Delft

UNStudio has unveiled designs for Echo, a new multipurpose academic building for TU Delft that will not only generate...

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Geothermal-powered dorm minimizes its carbon footprint in Quebec

Near Sherbrooke, Quebec, Montreal-based ARCHITEM Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski has recently completed the Mitchell Family...

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Community collects locally sourced materials to construct a school in Vietnam

The Xuan Hoa commune in the Lao Cai province of northwest Vietnam is, like much of the surrounding area, a region...

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Stanford’s sustainable scholars building embraces the California landscape

A former parking lot has been converted into the Denning House, the new home for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program...

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Singapore’s new-build, first net-zero energy building opens its doors

Opened earlier this year, the newly completed NUS School of Design & Environment 4 (SDE4) is distinguished...

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Former concrete factory is reborn as a unique music-inspired high school in Denmark

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and Denmark-based COBE Architects have just finished construction on the Roskilde...

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Geotectura Studio completes an ecological building on a former brownfield in Israel

A former brownfield has been transformed into the remediated site for ECO-TUBES, the Azriel Faculty of Design’s...

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Robotically fabricated Wander Wood Pavilion pops up in just over three days

Traditional materials and futuristic technologies have come together in the Wander Wood Pavilion, a large-scale...

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MVRDV will transform the Tirana Pyramid, a former communist monument, into an education center

Albania’s controversial Tirana Pyramid—a former monument to the country’s communist leader—will finally...

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Magical new classroom reconnects children with nature in the UK

Dramatic swooping roofs top this new timber-clad building designed by Studio Weave for Belvue School, a secondary...

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs robot-assisted vaulted classrooms for China

Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled designs for Lushan Primary School that blends forward-thinking construction techniques...

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Architecture students build a tiny CLT classroom in just 3 weeks

A team of 13 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) architecture students designed and built Emerge, a tiny timber...

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Perkins+Will designs LEED Gold-seeking academic building for York University

Perkins+Will just won a design competition for Toronto’s York University School of Continuing Studies - and their...

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Solar-powered school will teach children how to grow and cook their own food

C.F. Møller and Tredje Natur have unveiled new renderings for the New Islands Brygge School, an innovative lower-secondary...

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Historic train shed transformed into Tasmanian School for Architecture

A stellar example of adaptive reuse is being used to house and teach students at the University of Tasmania School...

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This rammed earth school in Ghana school cost only $13,976 to build

This amazing school in rural Ghana was built in 60 days for just $13,976. The new InsideOut School replaces the...

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Foster + Partners’ London playground is built of natural and sustainable materials

A new urban oasis for school children in London combines sustainable design with holistic learning. Foster + Partners...

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This candy-colored school in Spain disappears into the sky

  The upper floor of this candy-colored school in the city of Salamanca, Spain, disappears into the sky....

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Natural light floods this solar-powered business school in Frankfurt

According to the World Green Building Council, students score higher on tests and learn up to 26% faster when placed...

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