Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children's library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. More about Parallel Studio creates Mariam's Library for young students in Zanzibar
Scottish practices Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have completed The Harmeny Learning Hub outside Edinburgh, which is clad in larch to blend in with its woodland surroundings. More about Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland
A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children's daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. More about Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich
Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers' KUbe in Kansas, USA. More about BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as "living curriculum" at University of Kansas
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio's design for its first building in South America, which was informed by indigenous weaving practices. More about "A crazy bit of architecture" says commenter
Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. More about Images reveal construction of Studio Gang university in Paris built with 50 per cent natural materials
UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university in Bogotá with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices. More about Heatherwick Studio's first South American building to feature basketry-informed facade
Architecture studio MoDus Architects has extended a daycare in the town of Terlano, Italy, to create the Tartan School nursery, kindergarten and youth centre. More about MoDus Architects wraps South Tyrol kindergarten in tartan pattern for "warmth and familiarity"
US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. More about Cannon Design draws on "essence of Michigan forests" for university building
Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. More about Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, which is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". More about Powerhouse Company completes Europe's first mass-timber academic building
Gabled concrete forms surround a planted courtyard at Samuel Paty School in Béziers, France, created by local studios Ateliers O-S and NAS Architecture. More about Ateliers O-S and NAS Architecture organise French school around planted courtyard
British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has created a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. More about Allies and Morrison completes "21st-century factory" for London College of Fashion
A vaulted concrete base supports an elevated football pitch and running track at the Hexi Sports Field, which The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed in Shaoxing, China. More about Concrete vaults support rooftop football pitch in China by UAD
Belgian studio WE-S Architecten has created a nursery in the town of Aartselaar that takes the form of a nine-sided pavilion, intended to blend in with the surrounding park. More about WE-S Architecten designs Belgian nursery to resemble "a modest garden pavilion"
French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes referenced fossils for the textured stone facade of the Auguste Benedict School, which is designed to appear as though it has "emerged from the earth". More about Amelia Tavella Architectes completes limestone-clad school in southern France
French studio Vurpas Architectes has converted a 1960s market building to create Eugénie Brazier, a primary school and nursery in Lyon. More about Vurpas Architectes transforms French market with "childlike quality" into primary school
Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities, Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. More about HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine
Double-height balconies and outdoor teaching spaces enliven the facades of The British School in Tokyo, which architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has completed in Japan. More about Outdoor learning spaces animate Azabudai Hills school by Heatherwick Studio
Danish studios EFFEKT and CF Møller Architects have completed the Svendborg International Maritime Academy in Denmark, using an exposed concrete frame to echo its industrial surrounds. More about Exposed concrete frame creates "resilient" spaces for maritime academy in Denmark