Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. More »

The triangular roof above the cafe-bar at Warwick University’s renovated student union features a tessellated underside of polished copper. More »

British architect Alison Brooks has won a competition to design a new quadrangle for a college at the University of Oxford. More »

Danish architects BIG and Paris studio OFF have won a competition to design a research centre for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.  More »

Small windows offer glimpses of the straw used to construct this university building in Nottingham, England, by architects Make. More »

OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. More »

Architects Stanton Williams have completed a new campus for art and design college Central Saint Martins in and around a Victorian granary and two former transit sheds in London. More »

Construction has started on a new sports centre by architect Steven Holl for Columbia University in New York. More »

This medical research building at the University of California in San Francisco by Rafael Viñoly Architects projects out from a forest hillside, supported on steel truss stems that fan upwards from the ground. More »

The Rolex Learning Center, a university study centre by Japanese architects SANAA, opens in Lausanne, Switzerland next week. More »

Photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us his pictures of a college in Évora, Portugal, housed in a former pasta factory refurbished by Inês Lobo Arquitectos and Ventura Trindade Arquitectos. More »

Yesterday saw the topping-out ceremony of a new building designed by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat for the University of Leipzig in Germany. More »