Tennessee studio Archimania paired modern wooden elements with "gritty concrete and textured brick" at this higher-education facility, which is housed within a former industrial building that sat abandoned for years. More about Archimania transforms part of historic Memphis warehouse into teacher training centre
Rem Koolhaas' firm looked at urban-design patterns when drawing up plans for this laboratory building at an engineering school on the outskirts of Paris. More about OMA builds city-inspired engineering school for Ecole Centrale Paris
Canted walls covered in colourful louvres define this urban building for Northeastern Illinois University by architecture firm JGMA, which sits next to a major highway. More about Blue and yellow fins wrap sculptural academic building in Chicago by JGMA
Multi-coloured bars form the facades of this district library in a Toronto suburb by architecture firm Perkins+Will, which features community areas for new Canadians. More about Colourful strips surround Toronto's Albion Library by Perkins+Will
Chunky concrete pillars support the upper storey of this university building in Lebanon, which rises above its sloping site to offer views of a nearby walnut grove and the Mediterranean Sea. More about Cantilevered concrete volume shelters entrance to Arabic studies building at Lebanese university
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has taken cues from "monastic architecture" to design a research campus high above Los Angeles. More about Herzog & de Meuron unveils mountain-ridge campus for Berggruen Institute in LA
Blue-tinged solar panels almost completely cover this school that Scandinavian firm CF Møller has completed on Copenhagen's waterfront, providing half of the electricity needed to power the building. More about CF Møller covers Copenhagen school in 12,000 solar panels
A building with a row of pitched roofs forms Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' art and design block at Bedales School – a liberal independent school on the edge of the South Downs National Park in Hampshire, England. More about Feilden Clegg Bradley creates barn-inspired art building at Bedales School in Hampshire
This Sydney childcare and community centre by Andrew Burges Architects is filled with tiny house-shaped rooms and has a sandpit on its roof. More about Andrew Burges Architects transforms Sydney warehouse into "mini city" for kids
As part of a huge revamp of the Central European University, Irish architecture firm O'Donnell + Tuomey has added a new limestone-clad building to a street in downtown Budapest. More about O'Donnell + Tuomey uses "surgical strategy" to link new and old buildings of Budapest university
Lots of wood, soft pastel tones and bright accents are used to make this Brooklyn preschool feel like an "extension of the home". More about Maple Street School in Brooklyn features warm wood interiors
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. More about Reiulf Ramstad's kiln-inspired learning centre will celebrate Denmark's farming culture
This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More about Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings
A temporary secondary school is being built to accommodate students of Kensington Aldridge Academy, a school next to Grenfell Tower, which has been shut ever since the devastating fire last month. More about Portakabin builds temporary school for pupils of academy next to Grenfell Tower
A huge school for Syrian refugees is set to be built at a camp in Jordan, using a modular and re-deployable construction system developed with the help of former Architecture for Humanity director Cameron Sinclair. More about Low-cost school for 3,000 children planned at Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has cantilevered the gallery and performance spaces at the top of this off-white arts school, which was designed for Columbia University's new campus in Upper Manhattan. More about Renzo Piano designs top-heavy arts centre for Columbia University
Wind-catching towers emerge from the circular rippled roof of this brick and wood school building in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, which was designed by the architect of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, Diébédo Francis Kéré. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré uses local materials for ring-shaped school in Burkina Faso
British architecture studio Haverstock has added new facilities to a school on the historic Alexandra Road Estate in London's Camden, built by architect Neave Brown in the 1970s. More about Haverstock extends school on London's modernist Alexandra Road Estate
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for "London's greenest public building", a school that would be entirely powered by tidal movements of the River Thames. More about Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide
Joseph Grima has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven, Dezeen understands. More about Joseph Grima to be named as new Design Academy Eindhoven creative director