Glasir – Tórshavn College, Faroe Islands Building
Glasir – Tórshavn College Faroe Islands, Education Building Project Photos
Glasir – Tórshavn College
New Education Centre Building – design by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
19 Apr 2019
Glasir – Tórshavn College
Design: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
A CLOSER LOOK: BIG FORGES A LANDSCAPE FOR LEARNING ON THE FAROE ISLANDS
Photos by Rasmus Hjortshoj
Students have settled in at Glasir – Tórshavn College, a 19,200m2 (206,000ft2) vortex-shaped education center that combines three schools under one roof and celebrates the dramatic Faroese landscape.
Located on a rising hillside within earshot of the Atlantic Ocean and the verdant fells of the capital Tórshavn, Glasir fuses three schools into one – the Faroe Islands Gymnasium, Tórshavn Technical College and the Business College – serving over 1,750 students, teachers and support staff.
BIG won the initial design competition together with Fuglark Architects, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad. Recently, BIG celebrated the opening of the Isenberg School of Management extension at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
?This building gives us all the conditions we need to succeed. It is now our responsibility to get as much as possible from this fantastic environment. We are certain that our new surroundings will have a great impact on how teachers will teach and how students will learn,? says Bogi Bech, CEO, Glasir.
Glasir retains the autonom...
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