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Department for Education Net Zero Accelerator
The Department for Education is recruiting delivery partners for its programme to decarbonise a swathe of UK schools [Deadline: 19 March 2025]
Tag: Schools
Budget: Rachel Reeves pledges funding for housing, HS2 and schools
Chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves has promised major funding for housing, schools and HS2 in Labour’s first budget since coming to power
Space race: time running out to save Future Systems’ pioneering school pod
The race is on to save a ‘space age’ classroom designed by pioneering avant-garde architecture practice Future Systems
Adrian James Architects completes Arts and Crafts-inspired girls’ boarding house
The distinctive design of Queen Elizabeth Hall at Shrewsbury School combines features such as arched openings and chequerboard fenestration, steep-pitched roofs, dormers and tall ventilation stacks
Book review: ABC – Schools of the Future
Rob Wilson reviews Paris-based Le Penhuel & Associés architectes’ school primer and finds it both a fun-coated bigging-up of a single practice and incredibly enjoyable. Illustrations by Quentin Vijoux
Case study: Riverside Primary School by Architype
The 550-pupil school in Perth is Scotland’s first certified Passivhaus school. Photography by David Barbour
DaeWha Kang helps kids envision design solutions for ‘turbulent’ future
DaeWha Kang Design has enlisted primary school children to provide images for a new V&A exhibition
Stanton Williams designs first boarding houses for girls at historic school
Work will start next week on Stanton Williams’ plans for the first boarding houses for girls at a 642-year-old independent school in Hampshire
Government pledges £1.8bn for school repairs ‘on top of RAAC’ expenditure
The government has announced £1.8 billion of funding to fix maintenance and safety issues in schools that do not contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)
Let’s celebrate one of the profession’s best qualities – visionary thinking
The AJ’s February issue – which is published today – showcases architects’ ability to instigate positive social and environmental change