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Campus Protests Are Revealing the Precarity of Student Housing

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Students have begun mobilizing across the country, calling for university transparency and divestment from corporations profiteering from the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed six months, while others have showed up in counter-protest. This isn’t necessarily novel—student housing is fragile. According to the Spectator , ".a

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Student Innovation Center by KieranTimberlake

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To further strengthen its multidisciplinary culture of innovation, the University needed a high-quality, centralized space for undergraduate students to explore ideas outside the bounds of conventional curricular structures. The concept of the Center is unique and had no precedent at the time of design in 2016. A SHARED SPACE.

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Ten architecture projects by students at the University of Hong Kong

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Dezeen School Shows: a thesis investigating how buildings in southeast Asia withstand natural hazards is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Hong Kong. The palm trees located on the site have concrete in their cavities to allow the birds to nest. "A

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Yale School of Architecture Dean Deborah Berke has been awarded the Topaz Medallion

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Relisten to Archinect's 2016 podcast conversation One-to-One #41 with Deborah Berke. Berke was also lauded for her efforts to diversify the school and for leading an initiative to tackle and investigate the issue of slave labor in the construction supply chain.

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Fully-Saxon Middle School by Lemanarc SA

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The Fully-Saxon Middle School was put out to tender in 2011, and the jury approved the "compactness of the school and the energy pillar of the building" proposed by SMI Design, which was completed and has been welcoming nearly 400 students (11-14 years old) since January 2016.

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RAMSA overhauls 120-year-old Schwarzman Student Center at Yale

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A student centre at Yale University has reopened for the first time since 2017, following a restoration project by New York City architect and former dean of the school of architecture Robert A M Stern. Formerly known as the Yale Commons, the new Schwarzman Student Center reopened on 1 September 2021, in time for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Students set out ideas for better urban living in My ArchiSchool's first publication

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10 Sustainable Urban Architecture Concepts by My ArchiSchool features the work of ten students. The students were encouraged to examine how the way we live in the city will change in the next twenty years and create projects that will help to tackle the challenges that lie ahead. The book contains 80 pages. Partnership content.