Decorative aluminium screens designed to evoke neurons surround the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, completed by architecture studio Foster + Partners in Jerusalem, Israel. More about Foster + Partners wraps aluminium screens around university laboratory in Jerusalem
American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman will open a laboratory at 787 11th Avenue, the 1920s New York building renovated by Rafael Viñoly Architects. More about Neri Oxman to set up lab in New York office building by Rafael Viñoly Architects
Swiss designer Yves Behar has unveiled his design for French ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau's underwater pressurised research station that will be "the ocean's equivalent to the International Space Station". More about Proteus is an underwater habitat with a greenhouse designed by Yves Behar
Translucent polycarbonate panels encase the concrete and timber laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten. More about Behnisch Architekten clads energy laboratory in translucent polycarbonate
Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. More about FREAKS wraps French warehouse conversion in corrugated steel
The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London by architect Stanton Williams features street-level glazing that allow people walking past to peer into its laboratories. More about Stanton Williams "puts science on show" at London research centre for rare child diseases
Sea urchins, mussels and crabs are among the marine creatures that are expected to take up residence in a floating structure in the San Francisco Bay that was created by a multidisciplinary team at the California College of the Arts. More about Float Lab designed to serve as "new kind of architecture for climate adaptation"
A zigzagging structure of spruce beams supports the roof of a science laboratory at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Kentish Town, London, designed by AY Architects. More about AY Architects adds timber science laboratory to London school
Ian Moore Architects has converted an old industrial building in Sydney to create Redfern Warehouse, combining a four bedroom house, an equine genetics laboratory and a garage for classic cars. More about Ian Moore Architects converts Sydney warehouse into light-filled home and laboratory
The Henry Arctowski Antarctic Station, a prefabricated research centre with golden-coloured metal cladding, is set to be built on King George Island in Antarctica. More about Kuryłowicz&Associates reveals design for golden Antarctic research centre
The folded facade of the Morphosis-designed Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul is made from a high tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests. More about Morphosis weaves textile research facility facade from reinforced fibre
An environmental research centre in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Taller de Arquitectura de Alto Rendimiento, produces all of the resources it needs onsite. More about Mexican research facility El Humedal designed by TAAR to be completely self-sustaining
The broken-up massing of this Duke University research facility by US firm Gluck+ is meant to help protect the building from storm surge. More about Gluck+ designs coastal laboratory in North Carolina to withstand extreme weather
CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. More about Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography
Rem Koolhaas' firm looked at urban-design patterns when drawing up plans for this laboratory building at an engineering school on the outskirts of Paris. More about OMA builds city-inspired engineering school for Ecole Centrale Paris
The Salk Institute's worn teak windows have been cleaned up, repaired and replaced as part of the conservation of the coastal Californian laboratory designed by American architect Louis Kahn. More about Restoration work completes on Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in California
Architects Toshiko Mori, Maya Lin and CannonDesign teamed up to design this new research complex for Swiss drug company Novartis, located in the Boston area. More about Toshiko Mori and Maya Lin create buildings for Boston pharmaceutical campus
Architects Ministry of Design created this faceted robotics lab in Singapore to train and inspire engineers working with new automation technologies. More about Ministry of Design creates robot training facility lined with metal and tube lights
Spanish architecture practice Francesc Rifé Studio used polycarbonate sheets to divide an old textile factory into offices for the chef and staff behind the world-famous El Bulli restaurant (+ slideshow). More about Old textile factory renovated into food research studio for Ferran Adrià's El Bulli Lab
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More about NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre