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Environments of Curiosity: Translating Pedagogy into Architectural Form in Montessori, Waldorf, and Beyond

Olivia Poston — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Children encounter space differently from adults. For them, the world is not yet rationalized into function and circulation but is experienced through emotion and curiosity. Where adults may navigate rooms through habit, children inhabit them through immediacy. A patch of sunlight becomes an event. The curve of a hallway invites wandering. The sound of footsteps on wood or the softness of fabric beneath fingertips is not background but information. What adults may dismiss as peripheral moments quietly mediates their sense of safety, autonomy, belonging, and possibility. Architecture is an opportunity for pedagogy to become physical.

Flakstad School / LINK arkitektur

Valeria Silva — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000

With its location in the rugged Lofoten landscape, the building is exposed to wind and all the forces of nature. The weather conditions were a key consideration in the design of the building to create a school with a strong focus on local climate adaptation.

CABI Headquarters / Scott Brownrigg

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The Scott Brownrigg-designed headquarters for the international not-for-profit organization, CABI, has been successfully completed. CABI applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Scott Brownrigg worked alongside Project Managers and Lead Consultant Ridge and Partners LLP (Ridge) to complete a low-energy design that offers a two-story office space, successfully integrating an experimental bio-diverse landscape with a new collaborative flexible working environment.

Borgafjellet Elementary School / LINK arkitektur

Andreas Luco — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000

A model for a healthy indoor climate. The newly opened elementary school 'Borgafjellet' on the western coast of Norway, near Bergen, is unique in its combination of hybrid ventilation and solid wood on all surfaces. The overall goal for the project was to create the best possible healthy indoor environment for the 420 pupils and their teachers. The project group set high ambitions for sustainability, climate footprint, durable materials, and indoor climate, cultivating an innovative building with solid sustainable qualities for many generations.

Lambeth Civic Quarter / Cartwright Pickard Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Lambeth Civic Quarter is centered around the refurbishment and expansion of the 1908 grade II listed Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton and the construction of an 11,000sqm BREEAM Excellent Civic Centre. In addition to the Town Hall and Civic Centre, the master plan also includes three residential schemes at Somerset Place, Ivor House, and Olive Morris House.

Gateway Building / Scott Brownrigg

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

A stunning new 210,000 sq ft gateway development has been completed on the world-renowned Cambridge Science Park. The building was designed by global architectural practice Scott Brownrigg and developed by property consultants Bidwells on behalf of Trinity College and TUS Park.

Arm Holdings Headquarters / Scott Brownrigg

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Scott Brownrigg’s design for a new headquarters for ARM Holdings has completed. The creation of the new head office on Peterhouse Technology Park recognises the technology designer’s status as a global leader. Consolidating other ARM offices around Cambridge, UK, the new development will initially house 1,700 ARM employees and support its continued growth within the technology sector.

Horten Upper Secondary School / LINK arkitektur

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Norway’s highest environmentally classified education building
Horten upper secondary school won the international sustainable BREEAM Awards 2019 for the best public sector building at the design stage. The project is referred to as an example of a future-oriented learning environment and is Norway’s highest environmentally classified education building. The building is innovative and avant-garde in terms of environmental solutions and will generate more energy than it consumes. The sustainable ambitions comprised high architectural quality, handling of logistics, environmentally friendly solutions and encouraging next-generation pedagogy.

Vendelsö Hage Preschool / LINK arkitektur

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Vendelsö Hage preschool is the result of a close collaboration with the company Friendly Building, Turako AB, Hemfosa Properties and Pysslingen preschools. The preschool was built using passive house technology with prefabricated modules. The task has been to satisfy the preschool’s programme requirements, create an attractive design, a healthy working environment for children and teachers as well as a good project economy.

Skandion Clinic / LINK arkitektur

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Skandion Clinic is Scandinavia's first cancer clinic for treatment with proton therapy. A patient hotel with 86 double rooms has been constructed adjacent to the clinic. Seven counties have collaborated with Akademiska Hus to realise this unique collaborative project. LINK won a parallel assignment in 2007 with a proposal where the plot's buildable area was fully utilized and Uppsala was provided with a new signature building with a secure and high-tech interior. The clinic opened in 2015 and will treat approximately one thousand patients every year.

Video: Reiulf Ramstad Explains "The Nordic Way of Building"

Marie Chatel — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:00:00 +0000

“We believe that architecture makes sense when it’s anchored in the locales where it’s built, and the people who are going to use it. That’s why I’m not so occupied with the zeitgeist of architecture.”

Algard Church / LINK arkitektur

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 14 May 2015 02:00:26 +0000

Ålgård, just outside Stavanger, is a very vibrant congregation with many activities. One of the aims of the new church was to bring together as many functions as possible under one roof. A challenge with the project was therefore to create suitable rooms for a classroom, an office, a café, without affecting the actual Church space.

Community Church Knarvik / Reiulf Ramstad Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The new Community Church in Knarvik, located on the scenic west-coast of Norway north of Bergen, is built on a privileged site overlooking the cultural landscape and local town centre. The building is carefully adapted to an existing hillside between built and natural environment, providing the church with an inspiring context of the surrounding heath landscape. Its distinctive and innovative character and central location makes it a landmark in the community, to be inviting and inclusive for all people to cultivate their faith throughout the week.

Doncaster Civic Office / Cartwright Pickard Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

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Divine Inspiration: 15 Spiritual Spaces

Connor Walker — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

In honor of those celebrating Easter Sunday, we’ve compiled a list of the most breathtaking places of worship from our Religious Architecture Pinterest board. From vast, open halls, to intimate places of prayer and contemplation, these works are sure to spark your appreciation for divine architecture. See them in all their glory, after the break...

Ny Krohnborg school / Arkitektgruppen Cubus AS, Rambøll Norge

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Ny Krohnborg – The rehabilitation of a run-down local school becomes a vehicle for neighbourhood regeneration. The rehabilitated Ny Krohnborg school and nursery is the beating heart in a renewed neighbourhood.

Norwegian School of Economics / LINK arkitektur

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Norwegian School of economics has over a longer period, been planning to create a campus, to gather all of their students and staff. They have previously been renting space outside the campus environment for 100 people, space for studying and auditoriums.In 2006 the tender for the architectural and engineering planning for a new building was launched. Link Arkitektur, Sweco engineers and Smedsvik Landskapsarkitekter won the tender and began planning the new building.

Verket / LINK arkitektur

Javier Gaete — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The housing project “Verket” is situated close to Damsgårdsundet harbour front in Bergen. Like so many other harbour areas in European cities and in the rest of the world, this part of the city is going through a transformation; from industry to housing and business areas. This unique location between the Fjord and the mountains and in addition, within walking distance to the city centre and university, gives future residents innumerable possibilities concerning work and recreation.