Impressive University Buildings

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)

Year of Construction: 2006

Swooping curves gently touch down at the ground plane before rising back to meet each other to from the roof.

Ohio State University, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture

Year of Construction: 2004

Exposed concrete and structural steel can be seen throughout the indoor and outdoor spaces.

Oxford University Biochemistry Building

Complete Year : 2008

Issam Fares Institute

Area: 3000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014

"The building emerges from the geometries of intersecting routes as a series of interlocking platforms and spaces for research, engagement and discourse," Zaha Hadid Architects.

University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

While cleverly using warm materials to provide a comforting environment for patients and visitors, these materials also cool the building. For example, the warm colors of angled perforated metal screens provide shading inside, the bright yet neutral palette warms up the space such as sand colored stone with polished alabaster colored terrazzo.

Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Medical Center

Serving as the executive architect, Gensler New York collaborated with Diller and Scofidio + Renfro to create a state of the art facility for Columbia University's medical and graduate students consisting of classrooms, a large lecture hall, critical technical spaces, anatomy labs and simulation centers.

The facade plays a dual role where it screens the multi-story open plans which glows at night to serve as a beacon for the campus. Rather than a conventional horizontal plan, they created a vertically stacked plan which is interconnected inside.

Grafton Architects

This firm was founded by the multifaceted architects, Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara in 1978. As a firm, they've won many awards, including the World Building of the Year Award 2008 among many other accolades; as individuals, they hold prominent roles in the academic world all around the globe. They specialize in public architecture with university campuses and schools being their most explored area.

Featured Projects

Solstice Arts Center: 2006, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland

Engineering and Technology University - UTEC: 2015, Barranco, Peru (RIBA International Prize 2016 - Winning Project)