Continuing our review of 2020, we've rounded up 10 standout projects created by design and architecture students this year, from a high-altitude lavatory to ramen packaging that dissolves to flavour the broth. More
This school show by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute features speculative designs from current and former students, including a "shrine to science fiction" made from mechanical debris and a replacement for Steven Holl's Hunter's Point Library. More
A church extension and a residential building for women based on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own feature in this school show of work by architecture students from Technical University Munich. More
Defunct tower silos, car parks and Soviet cultural centres are given a renewed purpose in this VDF school show, featuring student projects from the Technical University Munich's Department of Architecture. More
A high-altitude lavatory with gabion walls and a reimagined motel feature in this VDF school show of work from University of Colorado Denver's College of Architecture and Planning. More
Here are the most innovative projects from our VDF school shows, which offered a platform for students and graduates to showcase their work during the coronavirus pandemic. More
This VDF school show by Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design features a conceptual biomass power plant and a proposal that reimagines the school's brick facade as fur. More
Central Saint Martins graduate James Parkes has proposed creating a tower in Brixton where disadvantaged women who are "burdened by the effects of capitalism" can create art after being released from prison. More
Royal College of Art student June Tong has proposed creating an Arctic thermal bath, which would be powered by cruise ship waste, in a bid to spotlight the industry's environmental impact. More
Bartlett graduate George Bradford-Smith has designed an astronaut training facility that clings to the face of Mont Blanc to imitate Mars' extreme environmental conditions. More
University of Westminster graduate Matthew Chamberlain has designed a sustainable treehouse to provide starter homes on London's streets, while also tackling the city's high pollution levels. More
TU Delft graduate Dermot Horgan has created a concept for a neighbourhood that would be built around a publicly accessible data bank, to make the topic of personal information central to society. More
A subterranean seed bank could be built into the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, says Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate Sean Cassidy, to ensure food crops can be regrown after an apocalypse. More
The English city of York is transformed into a giant Nestlé sweet factory in this concept by Bartlett graduate Elliott Bishop, set in a post-Brexit Britain. More
Royal College of Art graduate Hannah Rozenberg has developed a digital tool that calculates the underlying gender bias in English architectural terms, to help create more gender-neutral environments. More
Vast underground neighbourhoods are built to house an influx of migrants into Seoul, following the reunification of North and South Korea, in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett graduate Natasha Marks. More
Royal College of Art graduate Louise Nissen has suggested converting an abandoned lido in the British seaside town of Margate into a respiratory clinic for Londoners suffering from pollution-related maladies. More
Detroit is taken over by Amazon in architecture student Cody Seipp's conceptual project, which envisions the US city in 2051 following a major redevelopment orchestrated by the retail giant. More
Royal College of Art graduate Joseph Mercer has proposed building Netherlands-style greenhouses on London's green belt to intensify food production and allow farmland to be returned to a wilder natural state. More
Bartlett School of Architecture student Sam Coulton has designed a concept for a sustainable alternative to cremation to help Londoners confront death. More
