Umeå School of Architecture by Henning Larsen Architects + White Arkitekter

 
Umeå School of Architecture was inaugurated in late September. 

"The intention has been to design an open, robust study environment where each student feels part of the creative study community. The open layout and informal meeting places create a light and laboratory-like atmosphere supporting idea development and creative work processes."

Architect Per Ebbe Hansson, Henning Larsen Architects
Umeå School of Architecture
Umeå, Sweden

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Cahill Center for Astrophysics, by Morphosis

"The building is the result of a series of forces that collide to produce unique spaces of discovery. Force lines track the movement of form and light through the building’s faceted façade, the central vertical volume, and the stitches. As one moves through the space, formal fragments coalesce to reconstruct the interactions among light, architectural elements, and bodies as physical traces of the institution’s new ideas."

Morphosis
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

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Library and Learning Centre in Vienna, Zaha Hadid

"The new library and learning center rises as a polygonal block from the center of the new university campus. The design takes the form of a cube with both inclined and straight edges. the straight lines of the building’s exterior, separate as they move inward, becoming curvilinear and fluid, generating a free-formed interior canyon that serves as the central public plaza. All the other facilities of the LLC are housed within a single volume that also divides, becoming two separate ribbons that wind around each other to enclose this glazed gathering space… I am delighted to be working in Vienna as I have a close affiliation with the city. As a centre of research, the Library and Learning Centre is forum for the exchange of ideas. It is very exciting for us to be part of the University’s expansion."

Zaha Hadid architects
The university of economics and business, Vienna

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