Chinese firm Urbanus designed the playful Hakka Academy Longgang Twin Stars in Shenzhen as a "visual resistance to the monotonous urban landscape". More about Urbanus references Hakka walled houses for colourful Shenzhen school
Czech architecture studio Opočenský Valouch Architects has completed Vida Elementary School on the outskirts of Prague, topping its red-brick volumes with a terrace of teaching spaces, play areas and vegetable gardens. More about OVA crowns school in Prague with rooftop play areas and vegetable gardens
Chicago-based practice Ross Barney Architects has highlighted ducts and machinery at an industrial-style community college building outside of Chicago, USA, to expose students to the very mechanical systems taught at the school. More about Ross Barney Architects exposes mechanical elements at Illinois technical school
Hand-carved reliefs and marquetry details elevate the custom joinery inside this equestrian academy in Abu Dhabi, where French-Lebanese duo David/Nicolas has designed a library and saddle workshop. More about Arabian knights influence interiors of Abu Dhabi riding school by David/Nicolas
American architecture studio Kwong Von Glinow has renovated parts of the architecture school at Rice University, adding three new spaces through a "programmatic re-invention" of the 1947 building in Houston, Texas, USA. More about Kwong Von Gilnow shows Rice University architecture school's "rich history" in renovation
A cantilevered first floor marks the entrance to the timber-framed Robert Badinter Secondary School in Cambrai, France, completed by architecture studio Coldefy with Relief Architects. More about Coldefy completes timber-framed school in northern France
American architecture studio AMMA fabricated mass-timber structures in Spain before installing them for the Oceana Innovation Hub school in Barbados in a modular arrangement that reflects vernacular architecture. More about AMMA completes mass-timber modular school "that breathes" in Barbados
An "abstract ensemble" of pyramidal roofs cloaked in terracotta tiles was designed to evoke the feel of a small village at Kinder Rain, a kindergarten in Italy recently completed by local architecture studio AACM. More about AACM designs kindergarten in Italy to feel like "a small village"
An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create "a safe, engaging, and functional environment" for children. More about Toro Arquitectos designs ring-shaped Ciales Kindergarten in Puerto Rico
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a school in Canterbury completed by Walters & Cohen with a material palette of flint, oak and limestone. More about "A handsome, compact, efficient building" says commenter
Irregular oak shingles that double as habitats for bugs and bats cover the exterior of The Apple House, an education and wellbeing hub in Hertfordshire, UK, by London design collective Okra. More about Hand-cleft oak shingles cloak wellbeing centre in Hertfordshire by Okra
London studio Walters & Cohen has completed The Rausing Science Centre for a school in Canterbury, Kent, offering a contemporary take on the historic area's material palette of flint, oak and limestone. More about Walters & Cohen clads Canterbury school building with snapped flint
Car brand Kia has presented its EV5 model at an educational complex in Gyeonggi province in the latest instalment of our video series pairing its electric vehicles with contemporary South Korean architecture. More about Kia unveils new EV5 at educational academy surrounded by courtyards and water gardens
Rippling stone panels based on the shape of a brainwave clad the Life and Mind Building at the University of Oxford, completed by architecture studio NBBJ. More about NBBJ clads University of Oxford science building in rippling stone panels
London studio Wright & Wright has expanded the University of Oxford's Corpus Christi College Library, tucking a limestone-fronted extension into its original Grade I-listed site. More about Wright & Wright adds "calm and confident" extension to University of Oxford library
A palette of local clay, sand, hemp and wood was used to create Hedeskov Living Lab, a research and educational centre in Rønde, designed by Danish architecture studio Djernes & Bell. More about Djernes & Bell designs Danish research centre as "living laboratory"
The Rhode Island School of Design has launched Loop Lab, a pilot initiative that transforms the school's own waste into raw materials for students to reuse and reimagine. More about RISD's Loop Lab transforms its own waste streams into raw materials
Staircases and walkways framed in bright green steel wrap the concrete frame of Atelier PPW, a studio block created for a school in Belgium by local studio NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte and architect Kris Broidioi. More about Bright green stairwells bookend school workshops in Belgium
Architect Danish Kurani has developed a prototype for a "connected" classroom, designed to enable expert teachers to remotely provide lessons to students in rural communities. More about Connected Classroom by Danish Kurani allows teachers to reach rural students in Alabama
Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. More about The MAAK incorporates Apartheid-era demolition rubble into Cape Town school library