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
Behind the house-shaped windows of this nursery extension in Kashiwa, Japan, architect Soichi Yamasaki has slotted small square rooms between octagonal play areas (+ slideshow). More about Soichi Yamasaki's Japanese nursery features house-shaped windows and faceted ceilings
A folded fabric canopy helps to shade the interior of this glazed extension to a nursery in Paris by local firm h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Nursery extension by h2o Architectes enveloped by a folded fabric sunshade
A recital hall covered in aluminium mesh projects from one corner of this timber-clad music and communications centre designed by Mitchell Taylor Workshop for a college in the south of England. More about Mitchell Taylor Workshop pairs timber with aluminium at Berkshire music college
Children attending this nursery in Spain by Pamplona studio Taller Básico de Arquitectura enter through an angular concrete corridor carved out of the building's faceted shell (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete corridor welcomes children to Taller Básico de Arquitectura's nursery
Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs has completed a university auditorium in a Stockholm suburb with a patterned glass facade that twists and leans over the adjacent street (+ slideshow). More about Glass triangles animate facade of Wingårdh's auditorium for Karolinska Institutet
A stripy facade modelled on a skyline bounds the circular campus of this Melbourne primary school, designed by Australian firm McBride Charles Ryan to reference walled cities around the world (+ slideshow). More about Stripy Melbourne school by McBride Charles Ryan mirrors the local skyline
Raw concrete ceilings are concealed beneath the faceted green roof of this environmental education centre in the Czech town of Vrchlabí, designed by Petr Hájek Architekti to sink into the topography of the surrounding parkland (+ slideshow). More about Concrete education centre by Petr Hájek is sunken into a park landscape
Used carpet tiles clad walls that are insulated with junk, including floppy discs and toothbrushes, in this building designed by East Sussex studio BBM as a research facility and design workshop for the University of Brighton's Faculty of Arts. More about Waste House by BBM is "UK's first permanent building made from rubbish"