Architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has reconstructed a high school in Los Angeles after it was destroyed by a fire, choosing a bright yellow finish for its aluminium facades. More about Yellow metal walls wrap Animo South Los Angeles High School by Brooks + Scarpa
Hollow clay bricks form the gridded facade of this faculty building at a university in the Polish city of Katowice, providing privacy and shade to the interiors while still allowing light to enter. More about University of Silesia's Department of Radio and Television is wrapped in "net curtain" of hollow blocks
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled plans for a new technology education centre in the Albanian capital of Tirana, which will be housed within a pyramidal monument to communism. More about MVRDV to convert communist monument in Albania into technology centre
Architecture studio Kientruc O has designed a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City, which is made up of a stack of gabled brick blocks and features a curving cantilevered staircase leading to a roof garden. More about Chuon Chuon Kim Kindergarten by Kientruc O looks like a cluster of brick houses
Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. More about Diamond Schmitt creates white facades with pops of colour for Vancouver art school
Architect Steven Holl has completed a concrete and glass art school at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, where students can relax in an outdoor sculpture park and a ramped roof garden. More about Steven Holl's Glassell School of Art in Houston features a sloped rooftop garden
Niall McLaughlin Architects has refurbished a 1970s building at Jesus College, Cambridge, adding a new facade with a vertical composition of stone and timber elements. More about Niall McLaughlin Architects updates Cambridge college using historically appropriate materials
New York studio Architecture + Information aimed to create an environment that is "playful, not childish" for this school in Manhattan. More about A+I designs New York City school with colourful panels and tiered seating
Chinese studio WSP Architects has completed a university campus complex in Hangzhou, China, featuring a cluster of buildings with irregular stacked floors arranged around a central square. More about Staggered towers form university campus in Hangzhou
New atria and glazed rooftop pavilions are among the alternations to a historic educational building on Princeton's campus in New Jersey, as part of a project overseen by Canadian studio KPMB. More about KPMB updates gothic-style academic building on Princeton University campus
This school by Studio Weave features a scalloped roofline and double doors that slide back to connect the classrooms with a woodland setting on the outskirts of London. More about Sliding doors connect school building by Studio Weave to playground and woods
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for a primary school in China's mountainous Jiangxi province, which will feature a series of barrel-vaulted classrooms built in part by robots. More about Zaha Hadid Architects will use robots to build barrel-vaulted school in rural China
Prefabricated panels of cross-laminated timber were used to construct this micro cabin in the Pacific Northwest, designed and built by architecture students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. More about Architecture students use cross-laminated timber to build tiny classroom in Oregon forest
Japanese practice Hibinosekkei has completed a nursery in Yokohama, which features plywood-lined interiors and house-shaped openings set into its dark facades. More about House-shaped windows puncture perforated metal facades of Yokohama nursery
American firm Lake Flato used tough materials like weathering steel to create an off-grid educational facility for Big Bend National Park, known for its dinosaur skeletons. More about Dinosaur fossil park in Texas gains rust-coloured visitor centre by Lake Flato
Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse has completed a wood-textured concrete university building in Peruvian city Piura. More about Barclay & Crousse completes "labyrinthine" university building in Peru
Dominique Coulon & Associés has completed a sports centre for a school in Strasbourg, featuring a pair of double-height halls that project upwards from a concrete-and-glass base. More about Glass walls create visual connection between Strasbourg sports hall and its surroundings
Hawkins\Brown has designed a new robotics campus for The Bartlett architecture school as part of the redevelopment of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. More about Hawkins\Brown completes robotics lab for The Bartlett at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
American firm MB Architecture has used shipping containers to quickly and cheaply build a media lab for Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley. More about MB Architecture constructs university building from shipping containers in one day
The Architecture Foundation has launched a free schools database to help students discover architecture schools and their research projects. More about Architecture Schools Database launched to help students find the right course