BE_Design proudly presents the Komera Leadership Center, a facility in the rural eastern province of Rwanda providing health, education, and mentorship programs for young women, and a place for family development initiatives and community gatherings.
Project name
Komera Leadership Center
Architecture firm
BE_Design
Principal architect
Bruce Engel
Construction
Local workforce that maintained an average of 40% female representation, and provided on-site skilled labor training
Material
Woven eucalyptus screens and brick patterns
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Community Center
Winning Proposal by the consortium of GOA (Group of Architects) and Jiangnan Management. Sanliting Kindergarten introduces an engaging, dynamic architectural boundary that extends beyond the immediate site to create a safe yet stimulating environment by promoting community connections, fostering intergenerational integration, and celebrating childh...
Project name
Sanliting Kindergarten (Plot JG0904-R22-39 of Sanliting Unit)
Architecture firm
GOA (Group of Architects), Jiangnan Management
Location
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Principal architect
Zhang Xun
Visualization
GOA (Group of Architects)
Client
Qiandong Construction Investment
Typology
Educational Architecture › Kindergarten
For over 40 years, San Francisco University High School (SFUHS) has excelled as a leader in secondary education in the Bay Area, building strong and deepening ties among its students, teachers, administrators, families, alumni, and the larger community. This will be the school’s first ground-up project, which will support reorganizing and re-energi...
Project name
University High School California Street Campus
Architecture firm
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Design team
William Leddy. Aaron Thornton. Frances Kwong. Jasen Bohlander. Aruna Bolisetty. Chris Detjen. Sara Sepandar
Collaborators
Contractor: Truebeck Construction. Structural Engineer: Forell Elsesser. MEP/Lighting Engineer: PAE/LUMA. Civil Engineer: Luk and Associates. Landscape Architect: In Situ landscape Architecture. Food Service: Patrick Stein and Associates. Dry Utilities: Urban Design Consulting Engineers
Visualization
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Client
San Francisco University High School (SFUHS)
Typology
Educational › University Campus
The School Complex is located in the south-east of the historic center of Sant E'lpidio a Mare. The relation site-to-context has created a conceptual approach as a starting point for the project proposal.
Project name
The Renovation of Primary and Secondary School “ Andrea Bacci ”
Architecture firm
Maden Group & Setannta7
Location
Sant E'lpidio a Mare, Italy
Typology
Educational › Primary and Secondary School
An urban landscape inside a former airplane parts storage warehouse accommodates an eclectic series of uses for a Los Angeles area private school, while at the same time providing an inspirational series of intervening spaces to enrich the student experience.
Project name
Crossroads Arts and Athletics Facilities
Architecture firm
LOC Architects
Location
Santa Monica, California, USA
Principal architect
Poonam Sharma
Design team
Ali Jeevanjee, Tessa Forde
Structural engineer
Miyamoto International
Tools used
Revit, Enscape 3D
Construction
Douglass Design Build
Material
Concrete, marine plywood, polycarbonate
Client
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Typology
Educational › Warehouse Conversion
The importance of architecture in building a learning environment for students is exciting and one that begs to be studied. Naturally, the way you design a place shows how it will be used; thus, architecture is indispensable in the future of learning.
Written by
Bernard Williams
In the mountain city of Chongqing, there is such a middle school that integrates
individualized educational thinking into the campus environment. It is like a spaceship
that landed on the earth out of nowhere. The conflicting and inclusive traits are just
rightly integrated, which makes you wonder whether there a possibility to subvert the...
Project name
Chongqing Nankai Liangjiang Secondary Schoo
Location
Chongqing, China
Photography
gad, Shiromio Studio, Jinrong Huang, Guangkun Yang
Principal architect
Qiulong Zhu. Project creator: Yan Wu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Xin Guo, Kai Tang, Zhen Lu, Xiangpeng Xing
Design team
Qiulong Zhu, Yan Wu, Xin Guo, Yang Yu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Lingyan, Wang, Lin Li, Zhen Lu, Kai Tang, Xiangpeng Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lu Zhng, Min Li
Landscape
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education
Structural engineer
Tao Yu, Xiaodong Lv, Zhiwei Shan, Jia Huang, Bo Zhou, Qijun Shu, Jitao Shi, Tao Li, Lianhua Wang, Chuankun Wang, Huaqiang Wang, Changling Pei, Haiyang Liu
Environmental & MEP
Water Supply and Drainage: Junfang Cui, Fengyuan Zhou, Zhen Li, Dan Zhao, Haibin Liu, Yunlong Jiang. HVAC: Yuankun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Luchun Wan, Jidong Xia, Zhengguang Liu, Shufeng Liu. Electrical: Lin Zhou, Weihao Mu, Longsheng Feng, Yuanyuan Sui, Xingyue Zhou, Yutuan Wang.
Construction
CMCU Engineering Corporation (Construction Drawing)
Tools used
SketchUp, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator,Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Enscape, V-ray
Client
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education Information Consulting Service Co., Ltd.
Typology
Educational › School
TUDIOPEZ and Zarhy Architects have completed The Helmsley Science Building, a groundbreaking facility located in Tel Hai's College Eastern Campus in northern Israel. The building is the result of a strategic partnership between Tel-Hai College and Migal – Galilee Research Institute, providing both academic teaching and cutting-edge research facilit...
Project name
The Helmsley Science Building, Tel Hai Academic College
Architecture firm
STUDIOPEZ, Zarhy Architects
Location
Tel Hai Academic College, Tel Hai, Israel
Photography
Mikaela Burstow
Design team
Partners-in-Charge: Daniel Zarhy, Pedro Peña, David Zarhy. Project architect: Noa Rapoport w\ Danielle Alon. Competition: Nitzan Zilberman
Collaborators
Lab planner: U.B. Doron. Accessibility: Efrat Fluk
Structural engineer
Keidan Project Management
Environmental & MEP
Plumbing, HVAC, Electricity: Weisberg Engineering. Fire Safety: Moore Fire Engineering
Landscape
Miller-Blum Landscape Architecture
Typology
Educational Architecture › University, Science Building
