Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. More about Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland
Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow More about Colourful public spaces are part of Pazdigrad Primary School in Croatia
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More about Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
BIG has arranged the classrooms of this white-brick and glass school in Arlington, Virginia in a fan-shape to allow for a "cascading terraces". More about BIG designs twisting Virginia school The Heights
Glazed walls, a large metal roof and a vast central atrium feature in an academic building designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners for an emerging medical campus in Ohio. More about Natural light fills courtyard of Foster + Partners' Samson Pavilion in Cleveland
A pink concrete staircase, gabled roofs and brightly coloured walls define a school with in Zarren, Belgium, designed by architecture studio Felt. More about Pink concrete staircase connects colourful floors of Belgian school
The rocky hillside surrounding an 800-year-old fortress forms several of the walls and floors of this school by DesignAware in Hyderabad, India. More about Rocky hillside used as walls and floors for Hilltop School in Hyderabad
Swiss design studio ZMIK has transformed three corridors at a primary school in Basel into flexible learning-spaces designed to promote a sense of wellbeing. More about ZMIK turn school corridors into playful learning spaces
The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. More about Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym
Italian town squares became Branch Studio Architects' point of reference for the design of this school administration office in Melbourne, which is almost entirely lined in cardboard tubes. More about Branch Studio Architects creates piazza-style school office in Melbourne
Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. More about Paulien Bremmer wraps "social hub" for Gerrit Rietveld Academie in woven-steel screens
Mono Architekten has restored and extended a 1970s concrete school block in Germany with a cluster of curving larch-clad volumes topped with sloping green roofs. More about Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany
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
American firm Tower Pinkster has designed a school in Michigan with the aim of reducing the number of student casualties in the event of a terror attack. More about Michigan high school designed to reduce impact of mass shootings
Pastel colours and decorative white partition screens feature in this school in Chengdu, China, designed by Hong Kong studio Karv One Design. More about Karv One Design builds school around giant slide and ball pit
Outdoor classrooms and active farmlands surround the extension to this ecological high school in Connecticut, which Gray Organschi built with cross-laminated timber to demonstrate sustainable design practices. More about Gray Organschi completes wooden high school extension with irregular roofing in Connecticut
RAW Architecture has designed a zigzag roof of thatched bamboo for a school in Indonesia, which is raised up on stilts to deal with its swampy site in Tangerang city. More about Zigzag thatched bamboo roofs shade classrooms of school in Indonesia
American firm Supernormal has created a nursery and preschool in the Boston area that features sculptural volumes wrapped in vibrant wallpaper and open play areas illuminated by speckled daylight. More about Supernormal reimagines the classroom for children's educational centre in Massachusetts
Samira Rathod Design Associates have completed a terracotta school building in Gujarat, India with lopsided vaulted roofs that take their shape from a child's doodles. More about Children's scribbles inform terracotta school by Samira Rathod Design Associates
Children going to school or public places should be given bulletproof backpacks, the CEO of self-defence brand Guard Dog has told Dezeen. More about Parents "should start thinking about a bulletproof backpack" following latest mass shootings