Medgar Evers College in New York, United States

The Medgar Evers College designed by Ennead Architects is located in New York, United States.  Academic Building 1 defines a new campus identity and furthers the College’s mission to provide an environment in which students obtain a high quality, career-oriented undergraduate science education. The building provides thirteen state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories for physics, chemistry, [...]

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The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School/ Khoo Teck Puat Building in Singapore

Designed by  RMJM, The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School/ Khoo Teck Puat Building is located in Singapore. Khoo Teck Puat Building in Singapore is the instrument for the success of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS), the first collaboration of its kind in Singapore between two of the world’s top higher education institutions – Duke University [...]

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The John Spoor Broome Library in California, United States

Located in California, United States, designed by Foster + Partners, The John Spoor Broome Library is a 137,000 sq ft facility on the California State University Channel Islands campus. Designed by Lord Norman Foster and completed in 2008, the Broome Library is an integration of an existing structure—Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture built [...]

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Harvard University – Northwest Science Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Harvard University – Northwest Science Building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, had one plot of under-utilised land remaining on its historic campus. One of the University’s goals was to maximize utilisation of the site, which weaves between six existing buildings and faces a historic neighbourhood of residences. [...]

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Centre for Systems Biology in University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Centre for Systems Biology,located in University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Designed by Holmes, the 3-storey Waddington Building, provides 1,600 sq m of laboratory, office and ancillary spaces. Natural light is injected through the inclusion of floor to ceiling windows which give views onto landscaped gardens. The building has been designed as extremely energy-efficient [...]

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