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Inverurie Community Campus wins DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 An independent panel of 16 judges has named the £55 million Inverurie Community Campus the Development of the Year (Public Buildings) at the Scottish Property Awards 2021. The Inverurie Community Campus, which accommodates 1,600 pupils and provides amenities such as a community café, dance studio, gymnasium, games hall and a swimming pool for students and the wider community, was recognised for its collaboration, engagement and wider community benefits. The 360 rooms within the school include flexible and multi-purpose learning spaces with furniture and equipment designed to support new and innovative pedagogies.
All paths lead to learning
Ormiston College’s Centre for Learning and Innovation (CLI), designed by BSPN Architecture, has won the 2021 ALIA Library Design Awards – School Libraries. Situated at the epicentre of Ormiston College, the CLI is purposefully located to reactivate the “school heart” and create an active hub where all paths lead and transverse. The arrangement of internal functions and configuration of spaces across two floors promotes the flow of learning from noisy, active, collaborative group areas to quiet, personalised and individual places. Ultimately, this allows teachers to utilise modalities (digital, tactile and visual) aligned with their pedagogical intent to support the full spectrum of student learning experiences.
“A landscape of play and learning” On 31 March 2021, three years after the project began, BS KA public school in Zottegem, Belgium, finally opened. The vision of this playful learning design, by Rosan Bosch Studio, B2Ai, Alheembouw and Denis Dujardin, was to create a “landscape of play and learning” that motivates movement and interaction across age groups while supporting learners’ self-agency.
