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The patio is considered the heart of Pierre et Colette Soulages Primary School, © Severin Malaud

Careful restoration
Pierre and Colette Soulages Primary School by NAS...
NAS Architecture has transformed the former Montpellier Conservatory into a primary school, combining history with modernity through the use of a light-flooded patio and exposed structures.

Facade of The Third Space from Studio Saar, © Edmund Sumner

Cultural and Learning Center
Third Space in India by Studio Saar
One of Studio Saar’s latest project reimagines the third space as a dynamic cultural center rooted in Indian heritage.

View of the Lina Bo Bardi Building and the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, © Leonardo Finotti

Brazilian architectural icon
Metro Arquitetos Expand Museu de Arte de São Paulo
57 years after the inauguration of Lina Bo Bardi's iconic Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), the museum recently unveiled its latest extension, called Edifício Pietro Maria Bardi, designed by Metro Arquitetos.

Pavilion for Expo Osaka 2025 by Lina Ghotmeh - Architecture, © Iwan Baan

Iconic Awards 2025
Mapping the Present: Iconic Awards 2025
Renovation instead of new construction, attitude instead of icons: the Iconic Awards 2025 show how architecture is shaping change with everyday concepts for work, health, education and energy.

The open-plan classrooms face nature, are flooded with light and are furnished with child-friendly furniture. © Mariela Apollonio

Nature as a primary classroom
School in Valencia by Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes
Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes are designing the Imagine Montessori School in Paterna near Valencia – a nature-oriented learning facility for children.

Erwan Bouroullec on his Chair “Mynt”. © Vitra

Interview with Erwan Bouroullec
„It’s About Building a Purpose"
From a farmhouse in Burgundy to the Mynt chair for Vitra – Erwan Bouroullec shares how listening, simplicity, and purpose shape his design work across very different scales.

Multi-storey access routes run through the house to help you find your way around. The 275 mm-thick glued laminated timber construction is clearly visible in the walls. © Kuvatoismisto Kuvio

XXL log cabin
School and Community Centre by AOR Architects
In Tuusula, north of Helsinki, the young architectural firm AOR has brought together four educational institutions to create the Monio cultural and educational centre. Its construction is particularly unusual: Monio is the largest building in Finland to be constructed using logs to date.

The atrium is the hub for communication within the school community. © Daisuke Hirabayashi

Behind large doors
Guggach School Complex in Zurich
The new primary school, located at the foot of the Käferberg, was designed by Weyell Zipse Architects and offers space for around 260 pupils. A three-storey, manually operated sliding gate opens onto the adjacent school playground.

A large roof overhang protects the new glazed south front of the hall from the sun. © Brigida González

Clever strategy
Multi-Purpose Hall by Atelier Kaiser Shen
When renovating the multi-purpose hall in German Ingerkingen, Baden-Württemberg, Atelier Kaiser Shen took inspiration from the image of a Chinese bowl: multiple repairs give the building its unique charm.

In the evening, the building becomes a softly glowing lantern. © Marcos Guiponi

A translucent forest house
Children's Learning Centre in Uruguay
On the outskirts of the coastal town of La Barra, Diego Arraigada Arquitectos, Rafael Solano and livni+ has designed a pavilion-like learning centre for children that extends the school curriculum with various courses.

The structure of Nordøstamager school staggers down to the street over five storeys. The facades are uniformly clad in ceramic panels. © Niels Nygaard

Accessible roof landscape
Nordøstamager School in Copenhagen by Christensen...
Christensen & Co. designed their new school building in south-east Copenhagen as a house for the whole neighbourhood. The roof terraces and many of the rooms on the ground floor are open to local residents.

The education centre is a single-storey wooden pavilion. © Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of Enrico Molteni Architecture

Under one roof
Educational Centre in Parma by Enrico Molteni
Enrico Molteni has designed a filigree pavilion on the university campus in Parma, whose wooden shell houses two buildings with different uses.

The sculptural structure is clad in a dress of hand-cut grey Seeton bricks. © Stijn Bollaert

Sculptural monolith
Performing Arts Centre in Brighton by krft
For the Performing Arts Centre at Brighton College, Krft and Nicholas Hare Architects designed a solitaire with a shell of flint blocks and light grey Seeton bricks.

Temporary sports building for the Freudenberg-Enge cantonal schools in Zurich, © Ralph Feiner

Nominee DETAIL Award 2024
Circular Sports Buildings
The nominees for the Detail Award 2024 have been announced: Pool Architects have developed combinable and reusable modules for temporary sports halls.

DETAIL Circular Building Award, sponsored by USM
Temporary Sports Buildings
Pool Architekten have developed combinable and reusable modules for temporary sports halls.

Externally, the school complex is protected by a hard shell of beige exposed concrete. The flat wings of the building follow the gently sloping topography of the site. © Cyrille Weiner

Hard shell, light core
School Centre in Béziers by O-S Architectes and N...
The new Samuel Paty School Centre in Béziers, in the south of France, presents two radically different faces to the city and to the courtyard.

The shed roof form is clearly recognisable in the red-on-red brick and steel facades. © Federico Covre

Brick and metal accents
Piero Pirelli Institute in Milan by ARW
In the Bicocca district of Milan, ARW has transformed the former Pirelli training centre into an office building. The impressive warehouses have been opened up and the ensemble has been given a uniform dark red colour.

View of the central stairwell of the Fuchshof School in Ludwigsburg, © Zooey Braun

Prefabricated timber-hybrid building
Fuchshof School in Ludwigsburg by Von M
For its new primary school, the city of Ludwigsburg has opted for timber as the main construction material. With the exception of the central stairwell and the emergency staircases, the entire structure is made of this renewable raw material.