The metal cladding of German architect Jürgen Mayer H's FOM Hochschule university building in Düsseldorf is carved into sculptural shapes that connect windows, balconies and stairs. More about Jürgen Mayer H's FOM Hochschule building features bulging balconies and seamless stairs
Students at this new Snøhetta-designed Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen are invited to use the inner walls as a canvas for their work. More about Snøhetta makes every interior surface a canvas in new £100-million arts school in Bergen
New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed a multi-building arts complex for Princeton University, linked by a concourse underneath a large reflecting pool. More about Steven Holl's arts complex for Princeton surrounds courtyard reflecting pool
Bay windows with colourful house-shaped frames extend from the front of this nursery school in the city of Sendai, which was designed by Tokyo-based architect Masahiko Fujimori. More about Colourful house-shaped boxes surround windows at nursery school in northern Japan
The oval-shaped roof deck of this playful Tokyo kindergarten allows children to play and run endless laps around it – a feature that has just won it the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. More about Tokyo kindergarten by Tezuka Architects lets children run free on the roof
Morphosis and SOM were among the architecture firms involved in the design of a new permanent home for Cornell Tech university, described as "the first campus ever built for the digital age". More about Cornell Tech campus opens on New York's Roosevelt Island
A huge tree trunk has been sliced into sections to create the slatted roof of this outdoor classroom designed by architecture students for a school at an art park in Russia's Kaluga region. More about Slices of timber align to form roof of outdoor classroom near Moscow
Aires Mateus has completed a new architecture facility at a university in western Belgium, featuring a huge gabled void in its facade and a dramatic double-helical staircase inside. More about House-shaped opening cuts through Belgian school of architecture by Aires Mateus
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