text: Work starts on Bogle Architects' Singapore school | News | Architects Journal
  Work starts on Bogle Architects' Singapore school
  11 September, 2015 By Richard Waite
  Construction has begun on a 50,000m² early years school in Singapore designed by Bogle Architects
  When completed The Early Years International School will be able to hold 2,000 children aged from 18 months to five years pupils as well as 400 members of staff.
  Bogle Architects was founded by Ian Bogle after he departed BFLS (Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver) in 2012 and now has studios in London, Prague and Hong Kong.
  The practice's design for the 50,000m² school building is arranged into 'clusters', stacked vertically over five or six floors as interlocking and overlapping blocks.
  Each cluster has four classrooms with green walls and external balconies for play.
  The clusters sit on a podium level linking to the bus, car, taxi and pedestrian entrances, as well as external play space, a swimming pool, a multifunctional hall, and specialist classrooms for art, music and dance
  Project Leader Holm Bethge said: 'It's vast scale and transport implications have led us to find new solutions while keeping our design true to the concept of the 'nursery at the end of the road.'
  External ETFE canopies on the street frontage provide protection from the weather.
  Designed in collaboration with education experts and local outfit A61 Architects, the project is due for completion in 2017.
  Structural Engineers: Aecom
  Project (Local) Architect: A61 Architects
  Design Team: Bogle Architects
  Tender date: February 2015
  Start on site date: July 2015
  Contract duration: 26 months
  Gross internal floor area: 50,000m²
  Form of contract and/or procurement: Design and Build
  M&E consultant: Aecom
  Landscape consultant: Coen Design
  Main contractor: Lend Lease Singapore
  Education Consultants: Professor Gary Moore from Sydney University and Early Years educationalist Rosie Long.