Colleges & Universities

In Kalamazoo, DLR Group Completes a Mass-Timber Hub for Career and Technical Education Programs

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

KRESA Career Connect Campus is designed as a living laboratory where students are exposed to the equipment and daily tasks of skilled trades.

TenBerke Designs Mass-Timber Career Development and Leadership Hub for Smith College

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The firm’s Kathleen McCartney Hall merges two academic centers and dissolves boundaries between leadership, learning, and the future of work.

Bermúdez Arquitectos Builds a Vertical Campus in Central Bogotá

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:08:59 -0400

As the Colombian capital continues to grow, a 16-story educational tower signals a shift toward a denser urban fabric.

Ikon 5 Architects Envisions Rowan University’s Expanded Student Hub as a Transparent Agora

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:35 -0400

The New Jersey school’s new-and-improved Chamberlain Student Center features a glassy addition wrapped around a 1970s-era brutalist structure.

Spanish Practice Flow81 Converts a Call Center in Málaga into an Online University’s Headquarters

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:05:37 -0400

The climate-sensitive project is steeped in Andalusian tradition, including the extensive use of esparto grass.

Studio Modh Designs a Modern New Home for Thomas Jefferson University’s Medical Archives

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:03:46 -0400

Encouraging casual exploration, the ‘Wunderkammer’-inspired space replaces one that was dark and largely inaccessible.

Snapshot: A Landscaped University Building Evokes the Traditional Indian Stepwell by Way of M.C. Escher

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:20:00 -0400

Architect Sanjay Puri's clay brick–clad Prestige University campus rises 92 feet in a series of green roofs and paved terraces connected by small sets of stairs.

DIGSAU and MJMA Design a Muscular Addition to Princeton’s Dillon Gymnasium

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:17:44 -0400

A 1947 Collegiate Gothic fitness facility in the heart of Princeton's campus is renovated and expanded with a hybrid mass-timber addition.

MJMA and HDR Rejuvenate Queen’s University’s John Deutsch Centre in Ontario

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:02:59 -0500

The rehabilitation of a beloved student hub successfully settles into its historic context with a stone-brick clad addition.

In Belgium, an 18th-Century Religious Compound Becomes Home to the University of Hasselt’s Architecture School

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:29:20 -0500

The British-Belgian partnership of David Kohn Architects and Bovenbouw Architectuur finds renewed value in old ruins and dilapidated houses.

Outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Machado Silvetti Designs a Ground-Up University Campus Focused on STEM

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:33:45 -0500

The firm’s sprawling campus master plan for the state-owned Vietnamese-German University gives physical form to an emerging model of academic partnership.

A Building and Site for Contemplative Practice, by Aidlin Darling Design, Takes Shape at the University of Virginia

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:51:21 -0500

Set among a tranquil landscape, the hybrid steel and mass-timber Contemplative Commons aims to foster organic exploration of new ways of experiencing the world.

Biophilic Design and Adaptive Reuse Converge at Princeton’s Frist Health Center

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The inviting new student wellness center, designed by WRNS Studio, melds a 1920s academic hall with new wings housing an array of health services.

SHoP Architects Delivers an Elegant Academic Building on FIT’s Manhattan Campus

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:08:21 -0500

The 11-story Joyce F. Brown Academic Building adds a social commons and much needed classroom space to the public college.

Yale Divinity School’s New Housing, by Bruner/Cott and Höweler + Yoon, Reflects the Values of Eco-Theology

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Sitting on New Haven’s Science Hill, the 50-bed Living Village residence hall is seeking full certification under the world's most rigorous green-building rating system.

2025 Architectural Record Awards Winner: Shanfeng Les Roches School

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:49:50 -0500

Learn more about the awardee in the Unbuilt (firm) category by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office.

A Public Research Institute at the University of Arkansas Continues the School’s Pioneering Embrace of Mass Timber

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Designed by HGA with Hufft, the new Institute for Integrative & Innovative Research melds a public-facing timber pavilion with a steel-framed lab corridor.

VMDO Architects Completes the First Phase of a Freshmen Housing Complex in the Heart of the UMiami Campus

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:43:51 -0500

The new residential towers are designed to mitigate heat, humidity, and potential flooding.

At Indiana’s DePauw University, a 1938 Academic Hall is Reborn as a New Business School

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:22:33 -0500

Studio Ma’s transformation of a mundane campus building champions transparency and collaboration.

Payette’s Engineering Facility at Penn State Strengthens Interdisciplinary Research

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:05:00 -0500

The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building (ECoRE) brings efficiency to a typology known for large energy loads.

Ross Barney Architects’ Foglia Center in Illinois Brings Thoughtful Design to Industrial Spaces

jim@jamesgauer.com (James Gauer) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:46:23 -0500

At the workforce training–focused McHenry County College, a new hub for technology and innovation features labs for welding, CNC fabrication, HVAC, and more.

KieranTimberlake’s Partially Buried Scaife Hall Revitalizes a Neglected Corner of Carnegie Mellon’s Campus

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:07:00 -0500

Situated on the steep slopes of a ravine, the building serves as new home to the Pittsburgh university's mechanical engineering department.

2025 Architectural Record Awards Winner: Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:12:04 -0500

Learn more about the awardee in the Colleges & Universities category by MASS Design Group.

Patkau Architects Delivers a High-Performing Biomedical Building for the University of British Columbia

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:10:22 -0500

As Canada’s first purpose-built school for the integrative discipline of biomedical engineering, the new Gordon B. Shrum Building prioritizes collaboration.

Continuing Education: Building Technology November 2025

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:25:35 -0500

This special series showcases four programmatically flexible STEM facilities on college and university campuses.

In Denmark, Dorte Mandrup Designs Exemplary Accommodations for Apprentices in the Building Trades

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:24:26 -0500

Fonden for Håndværkskollegier's circular residential complex, which provides affordable housing to young people, is connected to a local technical college.

November 2025 Editor’s Letter

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500

As this issue highlights the inaugural Architectural Record Awards, as well as extraordinary examples of recently completed buildings, we are reminded of the potential of design.

A New Building Turns Oxford’s Courtyard Model on Its Head

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Designed by Hopkins Architects, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities is the largest building ever constructed by the university, and the largest in England built to Passivhaus standards.

The Hopkins Center, Dartmouth’s Wallace Harrison–Designed Arts Hub, Reopens after Transformative Revamp

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:02:51 -0400

Snøhetta’s renovation and expansion of the regional performing arts center adds new theater venues and rehearsal spaces while preserving the 1962 building’s mid-century appeal.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Campus Center Designed to Provide Creative Arts Context for Social Activities’

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:02:42 -0400

A short December 1964 survey of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College—recently reimagined by Snøhetta—refers to the building as a ‘valuable prototype for new campus fine arts centers being planned elsewhere in the country.’