This university library in Paris by French practice Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes has a knobbly concrete facade that looks like blocks of earth. More about Marne-la-Vallée Central University Library by Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed all the furniture for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen, which is due to reopen in January. More about Bouroullec Collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Hay
News: Dutch architect Wiel Arets (above), the new dean of the architecture college at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has set out his vision for the school, rejecting fashionable form-making in favour of greater concern for the public realm. More about Signature architecture "worries me" - new IIT architecture dean Wiel Arets
A grid of red sandstone panels dominates every side of this university library in Katowice, Poland, by architects HS99 (+ slideshow). More about Katowice Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library by HS99
News: the Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams has been awarded the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for the most significant contribution to British architecture this year. More about Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams wins 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize
OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for the École Centrale school of engineering in France by proposing a 'superblock' of separate buildings within a single gridded structure (+ slideshow). More about École Centrale Engineering School by OMA
This factory-like building by architects Haworth Tompkins is the new home for print-making and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. More about The Dyson Building by Haworth Tompkins
Architects Allies and Morrison have added this gabled extension to a nineteenth century boarding school in Brighton, England. More about Simon Smith Building at Brighton College by Allies and Morrison
Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. More about Lycée Georges Frêche by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Caged balconies provide open-air corridors that are sheltered from harsh sunlight and tropical rain at this school in Vietnam by architects Vo Trong Nghia. More about Binh Duong School by Vo Trong Nghia
French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France (+ slideshow). More about Music School Louviers extension by Opus 5
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York's Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. More about Columbia University Medical Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). More about Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM
Chilean architects Surco Studio have completed a rusted steel and concrete entrance and administration block for a school in Chile that was severely damaged by an earthquake. More about Administration Curricular Building Liceo María Auxiliadora by Surco Studio
Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here's a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. More about Guelmim Technology School by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana
The harsh sunlight in the Moroccan desert casts dramatic shadows across the sandy red walls of this university by architects Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana. More about Taroudant University by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana
Slideshow: Dutch studio Rocha Tombal have completed a primary school in The Hague that winds around its site like a crocodile. More about Galjoen School by Rocha Tombal
Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun). More about Mörike Gymnasium by Klumpp + Klumpp
Slideshow: Spanish architects Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné have transformed an abandoned market hall in Aragon into a children's centre with a slide connecting its floors. More about Centro Infantil del Mercado by Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné
New York architect Steven Holl has unveiled designs for a new institute for contemporary art at the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond. More about New Institute for Contemporary Art by Steven Holl Architects