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Reception Building for Dubai College
Education Architecture in UAE – Design by Godwin Austen Johnson Architects
5 Mar 2018
Reception Building for Dubai College
Design: Godwin Austen Johnson Architects
Location: Dubai, UAE
New Reception Building Adds Modern Direction for Dubai College

Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ) has completed the design of the new reception building for Dubai College.
The reception building is the latest phase of development for the school and has been designed to act as a contemporary student gateway to the existing campus whilst providing a new visitor arrival experience, purpose built offices and centralised staff facilities.
?Dubai College has a leading reputation as a traditional school that delivers quality education however they also have a charm and quirkiness that we wanted to maintain. It?s fundamentally a British school but very firmly rooted here in the Middle East with its juxtaposition of British quadrangles (or Arabic courtyards) and low density clusters of single and double storey faculty blocks,? said Jason Burnside, partner at Godwin Austen Johnson.

?The location of the building was a key driver in the way that we designed it,? said Burnside. ?It needed to occupy a very prominent location near to the plot boundary which means it is highly visible from the road and creates a public face for the school. In addition it has the added bene...