News Skanska to demolish and rebuild Florida elementary school Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a $47m contract to demolish and reconstruct parts of an elementary school in Florida. Osceola County hired Skanska to knock down portions of the Reedy…
News Balfour Beatty to build stormwater treatment system under California school UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a contract worth around $60m to build a stormwater capture system under a high school in La Puente, California. As construction manager at-risk, it will…
News Skanska completes $233m Boston school in time for the bell Skanska’s programme management group, Skanska Integrated Solutions, has finished the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston’s Chinatown in time for the 2024 school year, earning praise from the city.…
News Balfour Beatty unveils $338m of US education projects in one week UK-headquartered contractor Balfour Beatty this week announced four education-related projects in the US together worth $338m. Three are residential and hospitality projects in Florida worth $168m, and the fourth is…
News Sierra Leone launches $65m schools overhaul The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) will join other development lenders to finance a $65m programme to improve schools in Sierra Leone. The work will involve extending…
News Ukraine builds underground schools to protect children from Russian missiles Local authorities in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast have begun building 10 underground schools to protect children against Russian missile strikes, Ukrainian news site Euromaidan Press reports. Parts of the oblast are…
News Design revealed for Amsterdam’s first modular wooden school A Dutch consortium has won a design competition for the Wisperweide school in Weesp, a city southwest of Amsterdam. This will be the first in a series of up to…
News Irish government announces €250m schools upgrade programme Construction has begun on Project Nore, a €250m development to fund seven school buildings in counties Tipperary, Kilkenny, Westmeath and Kildare. A joint venture between ABM Design and Build and…
News Skanska finishes $256m Massachusetts school renovation Skanska has completed the $256m, 451,000-sq-ft renovation and extension of the Belmont Middle and High School in Massachusetts, designed by Perkins & Will. The new four-floor high school will accommodate…
News 10 Design’s “grassland village” school wins Hangzhou design contest Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has won a competition to design an ideal 74,000-sq-m primary school in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, just south of Shanghai. 10 Design came up…
Projects ‘Arctitecture’: Designing a Greenland school that fits in In Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a school complex is rising that blends in visually with the country’s famous Sermitsiaq massif that towers over the city. Danish architects KHR explains…
News Ukraine’s printed school in pictures This week GCR reported on Europe’s first 3D printed school taking shape in Lviv, western Ukraine. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children…
News Qatar unveils four museums and a school at Venice biennale Qatar has unveiled five cultural venues at the 18th Venice architecture biennale. The exhibition, called Building a Creative Nation, displays renderings, studies, models and video of: Art Mill Museum, designed…
News Europe’s first printed school rises in Ukraine A humanitarian project is underway to print a 506.5-sq-m primary school in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with completion expected in weeks. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint…
News Amsterdam plans to build up to 30 modular schools from wood The Circlewood consortium, a collective of architects, engineers, builders and researchers, has designed a modular building concept that will act as the basis for up to 30 schools in Amsterdam.…
News Georgia announces $500m kindergarten fund The Caucasian state of Georgia has allocated $500m to build 300 kindergartens and renovate 585 more. Some $38m has already been spent as part of the project’s first stage, which…
News Heatherwick Studio designs British School in Tokyo UK architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the British School in Tokyo, a 15,000 sq m space that will accommodate 800 students, making it the largest international school…
News Skanska wins projects in Finland and Norway worth €74m Swedish contractor Skanska has won two building contracts, a residential project in Finland and a school in Norway, worth a total of €74m. The €38m residential development project (pictured above)…