CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE.

The new classroom at Mossbrook in South Yorkshire, England, is a science teaching space designed for learning about the natural environment through direct interaction with it.

The school teaches the National Curriculum. For children with learning difficulties this is done in a demonstrative and experiential way, but the approach is relevant to all children and the new classroom is a resource for pupils from schools throughout the Sheffield area.

The new Faculty of Music brings a breath of freshness to Montreal’s McGill University campus. This eight-stories building designed by Architects Saucier + Perrotte is located on a narrow strip of land at the South-East corner of McGill at the intersection of Sherbrooke and Aylmer streets. Design Principal Gilles Saucier did a careful reading of the urban context assimilating its components and deriving the conceptual guidelines for the building’s exterior.

South of the McGill Campus lies the Montreal downtown area. All the way to Sherbrooke, the land is relatively flat. Then it starts ascending upward to the mountain of Mont-Royal. Gilles Saucier was inspired from these topographical conditions; "It's as if McGill acted like a geological plate that shifted the city grid, so the building design accentuates that fact." The building was imagined as exposed strata that were eroded from Mont-Royal.

Based on their extensive Hollywood background, Bastien and Associates, Inc. created an educational center that closely emulates the working conditions of a professional film studio. The design goal of Marion Knott Studios unites professional entertainment industry standards with an academic environment tailored to both storytelling and techincal production.


From the column-free 34 ft. clear height soundstages to the state-of-the-art editing and mixing suites and the 500-seat screening theater, the components of the school of film and television reflect their industry counterparts.  The resulting professional quality elements facilitate students with a seamless transition between their academic experience and a career in the film and television industry.