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The UK can "learn lessons from school-building in Brazil" - Aberrant Architecture

News: following this week's news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture's Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about The UK can "learn lessons from school-building in Brazil" - Aberrant Architecture

Simon Smith Building at Brighton College by Allies and Morrison

Architects Allies and Morrison have added this gabled extension to a nineteenth century boarding school in Brighton, England. More about Simon Smith Building at Brighton College by Allies and Morrison

Music School Louviers extension by Opus 5

French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France (+ slideshow). More about Music School Louviers extension by Opus 5

Guelmim Technology School by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana

Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here's a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. More about Guelmim Technology School by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana

Mörike Gymnasium by Klumpp + Klumpp

Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun). More about Mörike Gymnasium by Klumpp + Klumpp

Roses IES Cap Norfeu extension by Javier de las Heras Solé and Bosch Tarrús

Slideshow: the windows of this school extension in Girona, Spain, are concealed behind a perforated metal skin. More about Roses IES Cap Norfeu extension by Javier de las Heras Solé and Bosch Tarrús

Hauptschule Rattenberg by Daniel Fügenschuh

Innsbruck architect Daniel Fügenschuh has completed a concrete and glass extension to a school at a former monastery in Rattenberg, Tyrol. More about Hauptschule Rattenberg by Daniel Fügenschuh

Kannisto School by Linja Architects

A patchwork of yellow, green and white panels covers the erratically curving facade of a school in Finland by Linja Architects. More about Kannisto School by Linja Architects

Castellbisbal School by MMDM Arquitectes

Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. More about Castellbisbal School by MMDM Arquitectes

Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School by McBride Charles Ryan

This shimmering silhouette in the shape of three overlapping houses is in fact a junior school for boys in a Melbourne suburb. More about Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School by McBride Charles Ryan