Netflix is closing the chapter on The Sandman. The streamer announced on Friday that The Sandman serieswill end with its upcoming second season. There will be no third season.Showrunner Allan Heinberg expressed his gratitude to Netflix for allowing his team to adapt the beloved comic book series for television.Recommended VideosThe Sandman series has always been focused exclusively on Dreams story, and back in 2022, when we looked at the remaining Dream material from the comics, we knew we only had enough story for one more season, Heinberg told Netflix. We are extremely grateful to Netflix for bringing the team all back together and giving us the time and resources to make a faithful adaptation in a way that we hope will surprise and delight the comics loyal readers as well as fans of our show.Please enable Javascript to view this contentDreams journey has all been building to this. The story of THE SANDMAN comes to its epic conclusion in 2025, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/IwDbohR74U The Sandman (@Netflix_Sandman) January 31, 2025The news comes in the wake of the sexual assault and misconduct allegations against Neil Gaiman, who created the comics and helped develop the Netflix series. Earlier this month, Gaiman denied the claims, stating he will not admit to doing things he didnt do. In the wake of the allegations, Gaiman was dropped by Dark Horse, his frequent comic book publisher. GaimansCoralinemusical was also canceled. Additionally, Gaiman departed the final season of Amazons Good Omens, and Disney put his movie based onThe Graveyard Bookon hold.InThe Sandman, Tom Sturridge stars as Morpheus, a.k.a. Dream, a member of the Endless family who sets out to restore order to the realm after escaping 100-plus years of captivity. Season 1 premiered in August 2022 and quickly became one of the most popular TV shows on Netflix that month.Gaiman, Heinberg, and David S. Goyer developedThe Sandman for Netflix. Season 2 arrives sometime in 2025.Editors Recommendations

Dell is an excellent source of laptop deals, and heres one that you wouldnt want to miss the Dell XPS 13 9350 at $300 off, which brings its price down to a more affordable $1,160 from $1,460. Were not sure how much time is remaining before this offer expires though, so if youre interested, we highly recommend completing your transaction right away. If you want a powerful device with access to Microsofts Copilot, you wont regret taking advantage of this bargain, but you should act fast to make sure that you dont miss out.Its been just over a year since the Dell XPS reset. Weve had the Dell XPS 13 9340 with Intels Meteor Lake chips, the Dell XPS 13 9345 with Qualcomms Snapdragon X Elite, and now the Dell XPS 13 9350 with Intels Lunar Lake chips. Securing a spot in our list of the best 13-inch laptops as an innovative and sleek device, the Dell XPS 13 9350 offers speedy performance with its Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Series 2 processor, 16GB of RAM, and Intel Arc Graphics. Its a Copilot+ PC, which means its built to run Microsofts Copilot, a powerful AI assistant, and it ships with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed for access to the operating systems more advanced features.The Dell XPS 13 9350 is equipped with a 13.4-inch screen with Full HD+ resolution and peak brightness of 500 nits for sharp details and lifelike colors, and a 512GB SSD for ample storage space for your apps and files. The laptop also promises excellent battery life for additional portability, and it looks very attractive with its nearly bezel-less display and modern design.RelatedThe Dell XPS 13 9350 already provides amazing value at its sticker price of $1,460, so its a steal for its discounted price of $1,160 from Dell. You need to be quick though, as Dell XPS deals usually dont last long because of the popularity of this line of laptops. If you want to make sure that you get the Dell XPS 13 9350 with a $300 discount, you should add it to your cart and complete the checkout process as soon as possible. Any hesitation may cause you to lose your chance at these savings.Editors Recommendations

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Pixel 4a battery update Google Pixel 4as ruinous Battery Performance update is a bewildering mess It's hard to say why Google is doing this instead of a recall. Kevin Purdy Jan 31, 2025 4:28 pm | 18 Credit: Ron Amadeo Credit: Ron Amadeo Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreWhat exactly is wrong with the batteries in some of Google's Pixel 4a phones still out there? Google has not really said. Now that many Pixel 4a owners are experiencing drastically reduced battery life after an uncommon update for an end-of-life phone, they are facing a strange array of options with no path back to the phone they had.Google's "Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program," announced in early January, told owners that an automatic update would, for some "Impacted Devices," reduce their battery's runtime and charging performance. "Impacted" customers could choose, within one year's time, between three "appeasement" options: sending in the phone for a battery replacement, getting $50 or the equivalent in their location, or receiving $100 in credit in the Google Store toward a new Pixel phone. No safety or hazard issue was mentioned in the support document.Ars has reached out to Google about the Pixel 4a battery updates and appeasement options provided and will update this post with any response.The curious kernelGoogle did not explain why only certain devices were affected, but Hector Martinof Asahi Linux, open source Kinect drivers, and other fametook apart the update's binary kernel and has some guesses.Martin points out that the updated Pixel 4a kernel has these interesting characteristics:It seems to have been built by a Google engineer "on their personal machine, not the proper buildsystem."There is no source provided, as would normally be required of a Linux kernel build, though it may only need to be provided on request under the GNU General Public License.The maximum charge voltage of certain battery profiles changes from 4.44 volts to 3.95, which would mean batteries cannot charge to anywhere near their former potential.There are two main battery profiles, with distinct "ATL" and "LSN" markers; Martin suggests they relate to Amperex Technology Limited and Lishen, manufacturers of battery cells.LSN-tagged batteries assigned the "debug" profile can see capacity reduced from 3,080 milliamp hours (mAh) to 1,539 mAh.Two hours on a charge or lessOne Ars staffer who had a Pixel 4a still in use received the update. They saw their battery life drop from "Still working" to "Two hours on a charge," in their estimation. They had chosen the Google Store credit option before the update arrived and before the battery life drop became apparent. Once chosen, a different appeasement option could not be selected.Others have noted all but unusable battery life on their phones, as seen on subreddit threads and blog summaries.Even technically savvy Pixel owners will have a hard time avoiding the update. Google last week removed all of the Pixel 4a's factory images from its website, preventing owners from rolling back their firmware without having to go hunting for an image (or convert to a third-party offering, like LineageOS). With no source and debug code posted for the tweaked kernel, third-party firmware providers cannot easily incorporate the battery fixes.Some Pixel 4a owners have reported that, even after a battery swap, their devices have the same limited battery capacity. This would affirm Martin's suggestion of a faulty battery cell type and that batteries with those same cells are still being used in replacements. (Martin's post provides serial numbers one can look for on the battery part to indicate the cell manufacturer.)$30 per year to receive $50As seen on a wiki page on the Pixel 4a battery program hosted by repair advocate and YouTube creator Louis Rossman, and noted by Pixel 4a owners on Reddit (and the Ars staffer), the $50 credit offered by Google is paid out through vendor Payoneer.Signing up to be paid through Payoneer requires providing a Social Security number or other identification, birth date, and checking account details to a financial services firm most non-business owners would not recognize. Payoneer notes on its site that it charges a $30 annual account fee for accounts that receive less than $2,000 in 12 months. It is seemingly left up to Pixel 4a owners to close out their Payoneer accounts after receiving their credits.Choosing the $100 Google Store credit might seem the better option, but there is a caveat there, too. The discount applies only to Pixel phones and only to devices that are not otherwise on sale.The big question: Why?As we noted when Google first announced the update, a lot of Pixel 4a batteries are now four to five years old. Some have been kept as secondary (or "junk drawer") phones, and many are already at diminished capacity, especially when at low charge levels and in cold conditions. If every Pixel phone this old received a battery-minded final update, intended to prevent sudden shutdowns (akin to Apple's originally unannounced iPhone slow-down fixes), there wouldn't be quite the amount of outcry and confusion there is now.But Google has not said why certain Pixel 4a phones are "Impacted Devices" and others are not. It has not clarified what issue is so notable or severe as to push an automatic update to a phone from 2020, such that its battery life is all but decimated. No news or community reports have surfaced yet of Pixel 4a devices causing fires, or even simply failing to function, after four years. It's an automatic update with a strong fix, but for what?Google's support page only states that the update will "improve the stability of their battery's performance." This is true in the sense that, if you stop using a severely capped Pixel 4a entirely, its battery can provide a stable amount of output (none) into the future.Google support staff have suggested to more than one 4a owner that yet another future update could force a factory reset and automatic update. That hasn't come to pass, at least in the timelines suggested by support staff. But all of this raises the question as to how this confusing process is better than a traditional recall, if there really is some kind of danger, to device or human, with a certain set of batteries.Kevin PurdySenior Technology ReporterKevin PurdySenior Technology Reporter Kevin is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering open-source software, PC gaming, home automation, repairability, e-bikes, and tech history. He has previously worked at Lifehacker, Wirecutter, iFixit, and Carbon Switch. 18 Comments

Some 18,000 Costco workers might walk off the job on Saturday when their contract expires.Ahead of the deadline, Costco announced pay raises for non-union employees.That move might have unintended consequences, a legal expert told BI.The clock is ticking for Costco to strike a deal with 18,000 unionized warehouse workers threatening to strike.The company has been negotiating with the union, Costco Teamsters, ahead of the expiration of their existing contract at the end of the day on January 31.Against that backdrop, the company announced this week in a widely circulated memo that its 2025 Employee Agreement, which covers its nonunionized employees, would include successive pay raises that push compensation to over $30 an hour for workers at the top of its pay scale. A spokesperson from Costco did not respond to multiple requests for comment.Andrea Schneider, a law professor at Yeshiva University who is an expert in conflict resolution, told Business Insider that Costco likely made the announcement to lessen "the incentive for a strike" by assuaging concerns about stagnant wages.She added that the pay raise proposal could be the same one that Costco management offered the union. While it's a smart PR move, it might have unintended consequences, she said."I think Costco's response to immediately grant the salary increases to everybody is in some way to lessen that chatter and to say, 'Well, you don't need the Teamsters. We'll take good care of you. Trust us to do the right thing,'" Schneider said. "Now, the Teamsters are in a position where they have to get more than what the non-unionized would get."Matt McQuaid, a Teamsters spokesperson, told BI that wages, pensions, and increased protections of union rights are the outstanding issues at the bargaining table on which the parties have yet to agree."There are still 18,000 unionized workers who know their worth and are demanding it," McQuaid said in a statement. "Don't forget Costco wouldn't even be entertaining this increase if not for the immense pressure the Teamsters are putting on them to respect their employees."On social media, the Teamsters said Costco is offering low raises compared to the $7.4 billion in profits the company reported last year."So how's the company rewarding workers? By proposing less than 3 percent raises, kicking workers just $1 in the first year of a new contract. That's not even enough to buy a Costco hot dog," the union said in a Facebook post.Earlier this month, the union voted "overwhelmingly" to go on strike should the company and the union fail to reach an agreement by the Friday night deadline.With such strong support within the union, Schneider said Costco may have put itself in a tricky spot despite trying to protect its worker-friendly image."In some ways, they've made it more difficult for themselves because the union is not going to back down unless there's something more," she said. "Either there's going to be more money for the union, which is, I think, going to be very hard, or there's going to be some other kinds of benefits or protections or something like that that has to roll out for the union because the Teamsters need to demonstrate their worth. These 18,000 members are paying union dues, they're taking time to organize, they're threatening the strike. They've got to get something for that."

Robinhood's media arm, Sherwood, has laid off staff."We made the decision to streamline team structure," a spokesperson said.Sherwood joins several media companies that have conducted layoffs this year.Sherwood, the media arm of the financial tech giant Robinhood, has laid off staff.Sherwood joins several other publishers that have cut staff this year, including NBC News, CNN, TechCrunch, and Vox."Over the past 18 months, Sherwood has hired dozens of journalists, launched new products, and acquired the newsletter brand Chartr," a Robinhood spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement. "As we built out our 2025 strategy, we made the decision to streamline team structure."The spokesperson declined to say how many employees were impacted but said it was a small percentage of staff."Moving forward, Sherwood is focused on expanding its operations around timely, breaking markets news as we build through 2025," the spokesperson added.Robinhood unveiled its media arm in 2023 under the Sherwood branding. It was set up as an independent subsidiary led by the journalist and entrepreneur Joshua Topolsky, who serves as its editor-in-chief and president.Axios reported that when the Sherwood News website launched in April 2024, the outlet had roughly three dozen employees, including two dozen veteran journalists from Bloomberg, The New York Times, Axios, and Gawker.Sherwood's editorial focus includes markets, tech, and "the culture of money."The website features a section dedicated to Snacks, the popular newsletter Robinhood acquired in 2019. Robinhood also purchased Chartr, a data-driven newsletter publisher focused on visual storytelling, in 2023.

The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The Logoff. Today is a tough one: I want to focus on the Trump administrations freeze of foreign aid, an issue that is a matter of life-and-death for vulnerable people around the world.Whats the latest? People around the world are feeling the effects of Trumps Day 1 decision to freeze all foreign aid. The New York Times has a series of painful examples: displaced Sudanese people losing access to soup kitchens, Thai war refugees getting turned away from hospitals, Ukrainian civilians losing access to firewood.Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this week ordered lifesaving aid to be temporarily exempted from the freeze, but ProPublica reported on Friday that that in at least some cases, that hasnt happened. The Times reporting also suggests the pause plus uncertainty over what aid is lifesaving has led to some essential funding falling through the cracks.Theres no way to sugarcoat this: Foreign aid saves lives, and freezing it will cost them.Is this funding freeze normal? Absolutely not. Foreign aid fluctuates between administrations, and the law gives them leeway in how it gets distributed. Sometimes individual programs will be stalled for review. But a wholesale freeze is unprecedented. How much money are we talking about? Last year, USAID, the State Departments foreign aid agency, dispersed $43.8 billion or about 0.7 percent of the federal budget.What comes next? Politico reported that the State Department has been given about three months to evaluate the foreign aid and then for Rubio to make a recommendation to Trump on which programs should be kept or discontinued. But Rubio on Friday signaled a deep skepticism, saying: The US government is not a charity.Killing the funding, however, would require Trump to stop spending that Congress approved a move likely banned by a 1974 law. Trumps team argues that law is unconstitutional, and so the fate of any canceled aid would likely fall to the courts.And with that, its time to log off ...It can feel uncaring or insensitive to deliver news with this gravitas and then pivot to joy. However, I believe that taking care of ourselves mentally including by consuming hopeful news is a part of being good citizens. To that end, heres a story featuring two things I deeply enjoy: polar bears, and potential scientific breakthroughs. Take good care this weekend. Ill see you back here on Monday.Youve read 1 article in the last monthHere at Vox, we're unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you threats to democracy, immigration, reproductive rights, the environment, and the rising polarization across this country.Our mission is to provide clear, accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world. By becoming a Vox Member, you directly strengthen our ability to deliver in-depth, independent reporting that drives meaningful change.We rely on readers like you join us.Swati SharmaVox Editor-in-ChiefSee More:

January has come and gone, and were already exhausted by 2025 for several big reasons. CES normally brings out enough off-the-wall tech to fill our baskets. This years big tech showcase included a few surprise products that seemed honestly great, from earbuds to e-bikes to AR glasses. After the festivities died down, the best gadgets of January included the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs, which have already proved so popular you cant buy one anymore. Then, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S25 phones with all the AI capabilities we expected theyd have. Buckle up, as 2025 is only going to ramp up from here. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Adriano Contreras / GizmodoOne UI 7 on the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Youll have to pay for this Kuromi look! The first big release of the year is the shot across the bow for agentic AI in phones. The Galaxy S25 series packs a few minor improvements to Samsungs flagship mobile devices, including slightly lighter frames and slightly smaller bezels. Even with small camera improvements, the big update to the Galaxy S25 Ultra was its new AI capabilities. Neither the Now Briefi widget nor the personal AI add too much to the device. The cross-app capabilities arent fully realized either. Still, the $1,300 Galaxy is a speedy, pretty, and versatile phone, even if it doesnt offer a big reason to upgrade from a Galaxy S23 or S24. MSI Cyborg 14 Photo: Adriano Contreras/Gizmodo Just because Nvidias latest GPUs have hit the scene doesnt mean you shouldnt consider cheaper gaming laptops with previous-gen hardware. The MSI Cyborg 14 offers some strong performance in many games despite its size, and it looks the part, too, with its elements of see-through translucent plastic. It misses out on an RGB backlight keyboard for gamers who want to feel like gamers. It also doesnt have the brightest display or the best sound. Instead, it offers the baseline of what you need for gaming with a Nvidia RTX 4060 and Intel Core i7-13620H for $900. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Image: Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo The $1,000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 is one of the most controversial graphics cards that come from Nvidia. It doesnt showcase stellar performance over the RTX 4080 or 4080 Super, though each was released at similar price points. Its not as obscenely fast or obscenely expensive as the new RTX 5090, either. And yet, for the sake of playing your games at 4K with all the ray tracing bells and whistles, Nvidias $1,000 GPU is just about right. The Founders Edition is a sleek, two-slot card that can fit into most modern towers. The biggest boon is DLSS 4 and the addition of Multi Frame Gen. This means you can turn on all the settings you may want and still manage to get over 100 FPS in the most demanding titles. Oppo Find 8X Pro Photo: Adriano Contreras/Gizmodo For the sake of phones you cant easily get in the U.S., the Oppo Find 8X Pro makes us realize exactly what were missing. The Pro-level Oppo device looks great with the pearl white color and its large Hasselblad camera wheel. Better than that, it includes some of our favorite features from the iPhone, such as a programmable action button. The bright display, solid performance, and camera are all what one should expect from a premium device, although without the ultra-high resolution you expect from a near-$1,000 product. Its main issue is its availability. Oppos usual North American counterpart is OnePlus, but theres no equivalent to the Pro version of the Find 8X.RedMagic Nova Gaming Tablet Photo: Adriano Contreras/Gizmodo You may be asking, who the hell needs an expensive, high-powered gaming tablet? Until you use it, you may start to see the appeal. The RedMagic Nova tablet starts at $500. Still, for that price, you get a powerful overclocked Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and a bright display made for taking your mobile Android titles and pushing them to their limit. Its biggest issues are the pre-installed bloatware and the obtuse Game Space UI for navigating all your select games. It also lacks a headphone jack, which is a sad touch. But otherwise, you cant get much better for a 10.9-inch tablet for playing Wuthering Waves or whichever is your mobile game of the moment. Garmin Fenix 8 Photo: Brent Rose The ultra-high-end Garmin Fenix 8 is supposed to be the top-end of sports smartwatches, and it shows. The 43mm version at $1,000 (and 47mm AMOLED for $1,100, as tested) screams premium, but its made for the outdoorsy types who may want to run a few miles before donning a wetsuit and going snorkeling. It has a 15-day battery life and a solid GPS with strong heart rate monitoring and the ability to track ECG readings. For sports, it also does a strong showing for all sorts of athletic activities. If the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is premium at $800, the Garmin Fenix 8 is at the absolute top of the pile.XReal One Pro Photo: Rmi Lou / Gizmodo For the sake of all the AR glasses we used at CES this year, the XReal One Pro at $600 was simply the most usable of the bunch. Its less altered reality and more of a secondary screen, but thats not a bad thing. It offers the ability to control the size and orientation of your mirrored screen. Plus, you can use it with a MacBook or PC to generate a faux ultrawide display right in front of your eyes. They may not include any random AI capabilities, but theyre better since theyre one of the few pairs that may work for use every day. Segway Xyber Image: Segway The Segway Xyber is the e-bike for the kinds of folks who, like their favorite pets, get the zoomies. The $3,000 e-bike has a top speed of 35 MPH, which is already plenty fast for any kind of e-bike, but it includes a dual battery that should be able to go 56 miles off one battery or 112 miles off both. We drove it around at CES, and it indeed feels more like a motorbike than an e-bike, despite the pedals. Were just waiting for the device to come out later this year, when Segway promises there will also be a street-legal version later this year. Panasonic Technics EAH-AZ100 Photo: Rmi Lou / Gizmodo When Panasonic proclaimed that its magnetic fluid drivers would make its new flagship earbuds stand out for HiFi audio, I didnt expect too much. ,However, when I actually got my hands on the $300 EAH-AZ100 buds, I was taken aback by the clean audio spilling out of the comfortably shaped buds. Combined with solid bass and noise cancelling, the EAH-AZ100 truly feels like the premium earbuds they claim to be.

In one of her last summers before real life and responsibilities take over, Natalia (Dolores Oliverio) agonizes when her crush falls for someone elsea teenage rite of passage that takes on a more sinister cast in Sundance selection The Virgin of the Quarry Lake. Based on a pair of short stories by Mariana Enriquez, Laura Casabs film draws on the unease of its settingit takes place in Argentina circa 2001, a time of political and economic upheavalas well as the real-world dangers sparked by Natis churning emotions. It yields a provocative yet nuanced portrait of a young woman who learns to embrace her primal, powerful anger, for better and worse. With no family other than her sharp-tongued grandmother (Luisa Merelas), Nati spends the hazy summer days with her best friends, sisters Josefina (Isabel Bracamonte) and Mariela (Candela Flores); when shes not with them, shes chatting with them online from the local internet cafean early indicator that The Virgin of the Quarry Lake is set nearly 25 years ago. Other signs include Natis fashions (her plastic tattoo choker necklace is retro perfection, as are her low-rise jeans) and the increasing sense of chaos infiltrating the world around her. We overhear snatches of bad-news reports from background TVs and worried neighbors, then we see the urgent fallout, including a water shortage and frequent power cuts. More symbolically, at the start of the movie an unhoused, inebriated man pushes his shopping cart into the middle of Natis street, then stumbles away after being badly beaten by an offended passer-bybut not before making uncomfortably prolonged eye contact with her. Even before another character says it aloud, theres a sense of a curse being placed on the block, as the cart, which is filled with oozing bags of something and other ominous objects, lingers unclaimed for weeks. Another mystical element enters the narrative early when Nati grumbles to Rita about the annoying existence of Silvia (Fernanda Echevarra), whos about 10 years older than Nati and her friends, and whose worldly cool has caught the attention of the friend groups sole male member, Diego (Agustn Sosa). Ritas solution is to write Silvias name on a piece of paper and place it into a jar, casting whats presumably a bad-luck spell. We dont immediately see any effects from this, but Natis fury grows more intense as Diego begins blowing her off to spend time with Silvia. Rarely has a jealous glare across a strobe-lit dance floor felt more malevolently potent than the one we see here.While the audience never gets a sense of what makes Diego so greatwe learn almost nothing about him, and his main appeal seems to be hes aroundthats possibly the point, as The Virgin of the Quarry Lake is more interested in exploring the tangled-up inner lives of teenage girls. Oliverios naturalistic performance conveys a character who pinballs between puffed-up confidence and extremely low self-esteem, and who must navigate growing up in an unstable environment where men (and some women, too) are not to be trusted. Its a life where change nearly always brings with it some form of heartbreak. To dig too deeply into what makes The Virgin of the Quarry Lakeso named for the isolated swimming hole the friends visit through the summera genre movie would be to spoil its shockingly surreal intrusions. But horrors, both all too real and fantastical, are what help Nati find her way to catharsis.The Virgin of the Quarry Lake played at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It does not yet have a release date. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Louis-Saint-Laurent School / STGM Architectes + Ateliers ArchitectureSave this picture! Maxime BrouilletArchitects: Ateliers Architecture, STGM ArchitectesAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:1541 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 PhotographsPhotographs:Maxime BrouilletManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: EQUITONE, Kalwall, Abet Laminati, Akupanel, Armstrong, Beldden Brick, CGC, Polyflor, Vicwest, ezoBordMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Designed to provide a living and learning environment tailored to children while maintaining a direct connection to the outdoors, the expansion of the school includes the addition of five preschool classrooms, a learning hub, and a new entrance hall leading to the schoolyard. The original building, constructed in 1959, exhibits typical features of a primary school from that era: a two-story building with a sloped roof and red brick cladding.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!From the new hall, a passage to the existing building offers a seamless flow through the school, granting access to the learning hub, which is at the heart of the project. Renovations in the existing building have reorganized various areas to clarify the school's layout, such as the administration sector, where the staff room has been relocated closer to the main office and existing entrance.Save this picture!The two classrooms that were somewhat isolated on the ground floor of the original building have been repurposed for arts and music activities. Three new cloakrooms have been added on the ground floor, serving as a filter for different entrances to the schoolyard, thus freeing up the corridors on the upper floors. Additionally, a reorganization of spaces near the gymnasium now allows direct access to the community from outside. Finally, an outdoor classroom has been set up on the roof of the extension to enhance the outdoor spaces.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The extension, with its wooden structure, integrates harmoniously with the existing building, both in terms of scale and material selection. The new pavilion is primarily clad in clay brick, a highly durable and timeless material. A color palette that contrasts with the existing school ensures a smooth integration while highlighting the contemporary addition to the overall structure. Recesses in the volume mark and protect the entrances, both at the front faade and the schoolyard. A change of material in these recessed areas helps to break up the volume and create depth in the design of the new building. Red-tinted composite cement panels are used in these areas, providing impact resistance and durability while bringing warmth and friendliness to the school.Save this picture!Generous glazing, both in the hall and classrooms, punctuates the faades and adds lightness to the architectural composition. Finally, the curved shapes present in the design are reflected throughout the project, both in the exterior and interior design. Echoing the rounded forms that characterize the region's landscape, the curve stands out as a distinctive feature of the extension, adding movement and dynamism to the architecture. The project was designed in collaboration with Ateliers Architecture, a local firm.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:6835 Rte Louis-S.-Saint-Laurent, Compton, QC J0B 1L0, CanadaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeSTGM ArchitectesOfficeMaterialBrickMaterials and TagsPublished on January 31, 2025Cite: "Louis-Saint-Laurent School / STGM Architectes + Ateliers Architecture" 31 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026167/louis-saint-laurent-school-stgm-architectes-plus-ateliers-architecture&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream