Architecture firm Hawkins\Brown used two types of engineered timber to build this swimming facility at a school in Surrey, England. More about Hawkins\Brown uses engineered wood to build swimming pool for City of London Freemen's School
Spanish studio ABLM Arquitectos used mirrored panels to create an "almost invisible" upper floor for this school in the city of Salamanca, but the lower storey covered in stripes of brightly coloured tiling. More about Mirrored panels and stripy tiles cover walls of Spanish school by ABLM Arquitectos
This new building added to a school in the English town of Beaconsfield by London architecture office DSDHA flanks a tree-lined playground and is clad in waney-edged timber to give it a natural appearance. More about School extension by DSDHA features rough-edged timber cladding and outdoor learning spaces
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the site of the 2012 shooting that killed 20 children and six adults, has been rebuilt by architects Svigals + Partners to incorporate the latest anti-terror measures. More about New Sandy Hook school is designed to "prevent unwanted intrusions of any kind"
In this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen, Serpentine Pavilion architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reveals how building a school for his home village in Burkina Faso was the starting point for his career. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré says school that launched his career is "not a traditional African building"
A pyramidal turfed roof tops one of several teaching and administrative spaces clustered around a multipurpose hall at this school in the Belgian city of Knokke-Heist by Amsterdam studio NL Architects. More about NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring a colonnade and a pyramidal roof
Architecture studio LT2A has added a brick extension to a school near Lille, featuring an entrance sheltered by an anodised-aluminium canopy, and circular windows that provide glimpses of courtyard gardens. More about Lille school extension by LT2A features porthole-like windows and golden details
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
Blue-tinged solar panels almost completely cover this school that Scandinavian firm CF Møller has completed on Copenhagen's waterfront, providing half of the electricity needed to power the building. More about CF Møller covers Copenhagen school in 12,000 solar panels
Chiangmai Life Architects and Construction modelled the segmented and undulating roof of this bamboo sports hall at a school in Chiang Mai in Thailand on the petals of a lotus flower. More about Arched bamboo trusses left exposed in Chiang Mai sports hall to create a "feast to the eye"
A building with a row of pitched roofs forms Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' art and design block at Bedales School – a liberal independent school on the edge of the South Downs National Park in Hampshire, England. More about Feilden Clegg Bradley creates barn-inspired art building at Bedales School in Hampshire
Lots of wood, soft pastel tones and bright accents are used to make this Brooklyn preschool feel like an "extension of the home". More about Maple Street School in Brooklyn features warm wood interiors
A temporary secondary school is being built to accommodate students of Kensington Aldridge Academy, a school next to Grenfell Tower, which has been shut ever since the devastating fire last month. More about Portakabin builds temporary school for pupils of academy next to Grenfell Tower
A huge school for Syrian refugees is set to be built at a camp in Jordan, using a modular and re-deployable construction system developed with the help of former Architecture for Humanity director Cameron Sinclair. More about Low-cost school for 3,000 children planned at Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
Wind-catching towers emerge from the circular rippled roof of this brick and wood school building in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, which was designed by the architect of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, Diébédo Francis Kéré. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré uses local materials for ring-shaped school in Burkina Faso
British architecture studio Haverstock has added new facilities to a school on the historic Alexandra Road Estate in London's Camden, built by architect Neave Brown in the 1970s. More about Haverstock extends school on London's modernist Alexandra Road Estate
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for "London's greenest public building", a school that would be entirely powered by tidal movements of the River Thames. More about Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide
Earthy materials and soft interior light define these new buildings that American firm Studio B created for a primary school situated in an American mountain valley. More about Studio B pairs weathering steel with red cedar for extension to remote Colorado school
Traditional, round circus tents influenced the design of this performance and educational facility for the circus arts, designed by US studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture. More about Big-top tents inform building for America's first circus degree programme
This vivid red bicycle track was designed by NEXT Architects and Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau to wind over the roof of a school in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and continues to bridge over a canal. More about Red cycle path by NEXT and Rudy Uytenhaak snakes over Utrecht school and canal