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University Architecture : Education Buildings
Major Academic Buildings + Projects from around the World
post updated 25 August 2024
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of University Architecture. We aim to include Tertiary Education buildings that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and design competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary Tertiary Education buildings but information on key traditional buildings is also welcome.
Tertiary Education Architecture
University Buildings : news + key projects
University Building Designs : I-G
University Building Developments : H-R
University Architecture : S-Z (this page)
University Architecture Designs
Education Architecture – recently added to this page:
Vienna University Library, Austria, central Europe
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
design image from ZHA
Vienna University Building
The new Library and Learning Centre rises as a polygonal block from the centre of the new university campus. The LLC’s 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.
UEL Buildings, England, UK
Design: Richard Murphy Architects
picture from architects
UEL Buildings
This Tertiary Education building accommodates 400 computers organised in approximately groups of 30 for both teaching and open access, a 400 seat lecture theatre, seminar rooms and a University entrance foyer. The ‘L’ shape plan forms two sides of the proposed central college green at the heart of the reorganised campus in Stratford (the other two sides formed by the rear of the existing University house and our recently completed Department of Podiatry and Physiotherapy).
Key Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
Saint-Denis University Building, France
Design: Du Besset-Lyon Architectes
image from architect
Saint-Denis University
St John’s College Building, UK
Design: Edward Cullinan Architects
image © Adrian Welch
St Johns College Cambridge
School of Medicine, Australia
Design: Lyons
picture : Gollings Photography
University of Western Sydney
Shenzhen University Library, China
Design: RMJM
photo : H. G. Esch
Shenzhen University building
State University of New York, NY, USA
Design: ikon.5 architects
image from ikon.5
American university building
Vienna University Building, Austria
Design: Estudio Carme Pinós
design picture from architects
University of Economics & Business
Universite Feminine d’Ewha, Korea
Design: Dominique Perrault
picture from Dominique Perrault
South Korea University building
University of Cyprus Campus, Nicosia
Design: BM3 Architecture
render from architect
University of Cyprus Building
University of Iowa building, USA
Design: Steven Holl Architects
photo © Andy Ryans
American University building
University of Leipzig, Germany
Design: Erick van Egeraat
proposal picture from architect
University of Leipzig
University of Oxford Building, England
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
design image from Caro
University of Oxford buildings
Victoria University, Australia
Michael McKenna Pty Ltd
building photo from architects
Australian University building
The Wedge, Denmark
Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter
photo : Jens Lindhe
Copenhagen Business School
William Gates Building, University of Cambridge, England, UK
RMJM Architects
photo from architects
University of Cambridge Building
Zollverein School, Germany
SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
image from SANAA
Zollverein School Essen
More University Architecture + College Building projects online soon
Educational Architecture Projects – No Images
Education Building Designs, alphabetical:
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, England
1960
Arne Jacobsen
Singapore Management University – Phase 1, Singapore
2006
Edward Cullinan Architects
Stockholm University Library & Student Union, Sweden
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Ralph Erskine
Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
2005-
Juha Leiviskä
Technical University, Graz, Austria
1993
Günther Domenig
Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
–
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd with IDP architects
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Canada
2006
Behnisch Architekten with architects Alliance
University of Antwerp Rectorate, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
VBM Architecten
University of Mística, Ávila, Spain
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Andrés Perea Ortega
University of Ontario, Canada
–
Diamond and Schmitt
University of Toronto Law School Expansion, Canada
2007
Hariri Pontarini Architects
University of Wales campus, Newport, Wales
2008-
BDP
University of Zurich – Library remodelling, Switzerland
2004
Santiago Calatrava Architects
More Education Building projects welcome.
Educational Architectural Designs
University of California Building, USA
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects
picture from RVA
Glasgow University – Main Buildings
Property Design
Contemporary Property Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Buildings / photos for the University Architecture page welcome