Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More about Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta
Brightly coloured stripes cover one face of this bulky concrete community complex in Lille, which was designed by architect Julien De Smedt to host facilities for the "three ages of mankind" (+ slideshow). More about Julien De Smedt's angular concrete youth centre in Lille features a colourful striped wall
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More about NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
Swiss architect Omar Trinca has added a concrete extension to a 19th-century villa in Geneva, creating more space for the kindergarten that now occupies it (+ slideshow). More about Raw concrete contrasts with 19th-century details at Le Gazouillis kindergarten
Paris studio Du Besset-Lyon has converted and extended a 1930s sanatorium to create a new school of architecture in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand (+ slideshow). More about Du Besset-Lyon transforms former sanatorium into Clermont-Ferrand School of Architecture
This multipurpose building at the University of Luxembourg combines an 18-storey tower with a horizontal volume that cantilevers at both ends (+ slideshow). More about Steel grid covers double cantilevered building for the University of Luxembourg
Architecture studio AP+E has created an amphitheatre of timber columns for use as an outdoor teaching space for a primary school in Carlow, Ireland (+ slideshow). More about AP+E's Hedge School outdoor classroom brings back 18th-century teaching methods
Caruso St John Architects has unveiled plans for a new £160 million biomedical laboratory at University of Basel, Switzerland, which features a gridded glass facade and a concrete base with arch-shaped notches. More about Caruso St John reveals designs for university laboratory in Basel
Bangkok-based architect Jun Sekino designed these elevated classrooms in northern Thailand in response to a severe earthquake, which destroyed the school's original building (+ slideshow). More about Jun Sekino replaces earthquake-damaged school in Thailand with stilted classrooms
British studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its third building for the Royal College of Art's campus in London's Battersea – an industrial-style facility for ceramics, glass and metal-work students (+ slideshow). More about Haworth Tompkins adds another building to Royal College of Art's Battersea campus
Pierre-Alain Dupraz Architecte chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). More about Pierre-Alain Dupraz houses Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks
Built in the wake of an earthquake, this secondary school in northern Thailand by Vin Varavarn Architects is raised above the ground on metal stilts (+ slideshow). More about Earthquake-resistant school in Thailand raised up on stilts by Vin Varavarn Architects
French studios Caractère Spécial and Parisian studio NP2F Architectes have expanded the home of a circus arts centre in France's Champagne region and added a curving outdoor staircase (+ slideshow). More about Curving concrete staircase protrudes from warehouse-like circus school in France
Enrique Norten and his studio TEN Arquitectos have completed a new university campus in Mexico City made up of intersecting blocks that overlook a central lawn and staircase (+ slideshow). More about Enrique Norten completes new campus for Centro art and design school in Mexico City
A New York-based nonprofit organisation has commissioned Selldorf Architects to design an elementary school for a remote village in southern Zambia. More about Annabelle Selldorf designs new primary school for rural Zambia
California's Stanford University opens a new building today by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that houses the school's art and art history department, with a design featuring two interlocking strands (+ slideshow). More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes new art department building for Stanford University
Hong Kong studio Rural Urban Framework covered this new primary school toilet block in mirrored tiles so that it reflects its surroundings, helping to camouflage the building (+ slideshow). More about Rural Urban Framework uses mirrored tiles to camouflage toilets at Mulan Primary School
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). More about US firm announces plans to open "the Bauhaus of Africa"
These three corrugated zinc and galvanised steel cabins by Graal Architecture provide a stilted reading room and sports hall for a nursery school in western Paris (+ slideshow). More about Graal Architecture adds trio of corrugated metal cabins to a kindergarten in France
Dutch firm Mecanoo has unveiled plans for a £350 million engineering school at The University of Manchester in the UK. More about Mecanoo designs huge engineering campus for The University of Manchester