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A Melbourne school is creating great industry waves for its mix of stunning architecture and environmentally responsible principles. Acting as an incredible promotion of green thinking to both the young students attending and the wider community, is the junior building at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS). While the striking building, transformed by architectural firm McBride Charles Ryan is completely passive in its design, an absolute feat in its own right, it is its aesthetic that truly stands out. Oftentimes in green building projects a building's visual appeal is ignored in order to focus on the sustainable building aspects. While environmental responsibility may be more important than design greatness, it is incredibly positive to see such a prime example of a culmination of these ideas executed so elegantly.

Architecture can serve various purposes: seamlessness between interiors and exteriors; creating an all-inclusive inward-looking environment... Read about this beautifully designed Music School and give us your feedback on other purposes of architecture...

In 2008, Marita Cheng identified a problem: too few girls in engineering, the field of her passion. Deciding to do something about it, Cheng and a number of her peers formed Robogirls, a student club which would set up and run LEGO robotics competitions for girls' schools around Melbourne, with teams receiving training and support in the lead up to the completion. What started from there has now grown into an organisation introducing girls to engineering in schools not just across Australia but also in England, Ireland, Holland and New Zealand.  Robogirls' success has now earned Marita the 2012 Young Australian of the Year.

TAUTEM Architecture and BMC2 Architects use a bold geometric architectural vocabulary to design the Antoine de Ruffi school building in Marseille, anchoring the edifice on various points - sustainability, environment and human comfort.

Is coexistence really a new typology? Check out the renewed urban energies of the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark and leave us your views…

The entire approach to education has been gradually and consistently undergoing a shift. Check out the reconstitution of this horticultural school in the south of France and leave us your views…

YEp ! about sustain and cities, also architecture ! This page, thanks to biological Architecture from Berkeley school of archi. said about 60 h of focal videos about sustain and biomimicry, parametric archi ..;etc get to share if you find some very good pearl ! ;)

Zaha Hadid architects unveil their design for a pioneering new institute and genocide memorial in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, which will bring together a museum, research centre, graduate school, document archives and research library. Read here...

Can an asymmetrical brick arch be perpetrated? IAnD and Ar. Samira Rathod invite your views in an exclusive peek into her drawing board contemplations...

Lifescale - When we come across profound thinking in architecture and design, it opens up new avenues of action…Check out acclaimed Ar. Jaisim's views on architecture and share with us your feedback...Click on the link to read more>>