OMA designs terraced sports center for UK's Brighton College

Ever since Brighton College opened its doors 170 years ago in England, it’s been associated with the distinguished architecture that makes up its campus, from the English Gothic revival of Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19^th century, and later buildings by alum Sir Thomas Graham Jackson in the early 20^th century.

Renderings have recently circulated of a new addition designed by Rem Koolhaas’ firm Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) for the college’s sport and sciences department.

Designs for what Dezeen reports to be “the biggest construction project in the school’s 170-year history” features a rectangular building at the edge of the school’s playing field. A running track is planned for the building’s roof, while sports facilities will be kept underneath. The basement will house the campus’ swimming pool.

A cascading façade is intended to mimic the terrace houses surrounding the prep-school to better fit its context.

According to BauNetz, the firm had won an invited competition back in 2013, and the renderings are now under review for approval by the city.

In September 2021, Penn reopened its renovated and expanded library as an open center for cross-disciplinary learning, prototyping, and collaboration. Now called Biotech Commons, the 17,000-sf building supports new modes of research by offering a range of spaces and services that is free to be scheduled by any student or faculty member.

University Buildings | Feb 17, 2022

A vacated school in St. Louis is turned into a center where suppliers exchange ideas

In 1871, The Carondelet School, designed by Frederick William Raeder, opened to educate more than 400 children of laborers and manufacturers in St. Louis. The building is getting a second lease on life, as it has undergone a $2 million renovation by goBRANDgo!, a marketing firm for the manufacturing and industrial sectors.

University Buildings | Feb 15, 2022

Ohio University's Chilled Water Plant #3 brings high design to a campus utility

Leers Weinzapfel Associates has also designed chiller plants on the campuses of Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard University’s Allston Campus, and the Ohio State University.