Vertical strips of masonry wrap around the buildings and playgrounds that make up Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new preschool in Copenhagen by Danish studio COBE (+ slideshow). More about COBE's Copenhagen kindergarten designed as a "village for children"
Moveable timber fins cover the top five storeys of this university technology centre by French architects Badia Berger to modulate light and shade inside. More about Mantois Technology Centre by Badia Berger Architectes features moveable timber shutters
World Architecture Festival 2014: a village library in China with a roof that doubles as a playground has been selected for the inaugural Small Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival. More about Small Project of the Year 2014 award goes to a community library with a rooftop playground
This common room for a culinary school, by French designer Matali Crasset, has bright yellow interiors and white movable furniture that reference the meringue islands of famous custardy dessert L'île Flottante (+ slideshow). More about Matali Crasset completes dessert-themed common room for French culinary school
Prefabricated brick panels create decorative cladding that complements the existing 1970s buildings surrounding this new facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute designed by CF Møller for a campus near Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More about CF Møller completes red brick facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute
Greek designer Marios Karystios has revamped the schoolroom of a maths teacher, adding brightly coloured furnishings and vintage accessories that aim to make learning more fun (+ slideshow). More about Marios Karystios redesigns a classroom for a maths teacher
Brutalism: one of the earliest known examples of Brutalist architecture in America is Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut, an imposing, fortress-like building that juxtaposes masses of textured concrete with layers of steel-framed glazing. More about Brutalist buildings: Yale Art and Architecture Building, Connecticut by Paul Rudolph
Large semicircles puncture the facade of this English language school in Japan by architect Naoko Horibe, framing a drive-through area for cars and vista of the park beyond (+ slideshow). More about Drive-through restaurants provide a model for Naoko Horibe's White Rose English School
The distinctive grey and yellow colour palette of this nursery school in Germany, by Ecker Architekten, extends to lighting fixtures, storage closets, doors and staircases (+ slideshow). More about Kindergarten by Ecker Architekten features an austere colour palette and a spiral staircase
Images from the history of cinematography are printed onto the glass facade of the National Film School on the outskirts of Dublin, by local architecture office ABK (+ slideshow). More about Historical movie images adorn the facade of National Film School in Dublin
News: the school founded by Frank Lloyd Wright may lose its accreditation to award architecture degrees following a rule change from America's Higher Learning Commission. More about Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture may lose accreditation
French studio LCR Architectes used gently patinated copper to give the exterior surfaces of this school near Toulouse a weathered, metallic appearance (+ slideshow). More about LCR Architectes clads French middle school with tarnished copper panels
A stack of large glass boxes forms this biotechnology facility at a Mexico university by Tatiana Bilbao (+ slideshow). More about Glass boxes cantilever from the concrete core of Tatiana Bilbao's Bioinnova university building
News: Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has completed a building with a cage-like exterior for the newly established Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland. More about Santiago Calatrava completes Florida Polytechnic University
A cantilevered glass-walled room lights up at night to create a beacon on top of this kindergarten in the Tuscan town of Sinalunga by Siena firm Studio di Architettura Andrea Milani (+ slideshow). More about Nursery school in Tuscany illuminates "like a lighthouse"
Internal lighting shines between the vertical larch battens that clad this extension to a primary school near Basel by Swiss firms Zwimpfer Partner Architekten and BBK Architekten. More about Swiss school extension by Zwimpfer Partner and BBK fronted by slender wooden battens
Dutch design duo Studio Makkink & Bey has created a series of spatial installations inside the bedrooms of a former bishop's residence in Orléans, France. More about Studio Makkink & Bey furnish research centre in former Hôtel Dupanloup
Thousands of tiny ones and zeros pierce the aluminium skin of Denton Corker Marshall's new engineering faculty for the University of Technology in Sydney, spelling out the name of the building in binary code (+ slideshow). More about Binary code patterns exterior of Sydney engineering faculty by Denton Corker Marshall
Stairs and bookshelves wrap around a triple-height atrium inside this university library, which Danish architecture studio Adept describes as a "spiral of knowledge" (+ slideshow). More about Stairs spiral around interior of Adept's Dalarna Media Library in Sweden
Mottled red brickwork was used to build the gabled walls of this English school library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop, who more recently completed a humanities building for a historic school elsewhere in the country (+ slideshow). More about Angular brick gables frame Kings College Library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop