News: most UK-based employers and students believe architecture graduates are not prepared for the realities of working in practice, according to an industry survey. More about UK architecture schools fail to equip students with skills needed for practice
Architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux challenged students at Brussels University to create scale models that would appear realistic when photographed (+ slideshow). More about Maxime Delvaux's realistic photos of student models offer an alternative to 3D renders
Milan 2014: students from the Piet Zwart Institute created a series of interactive objects exploring sound in a domestic context for their Instruments Reimaging the Music Room exhibition in Milan last month (+ slideshow). More about Piet Zwart Institute students combine musical instruments with furniture and homeware
Students from London's Architectural Association have designed and built a lattice-framed shelter for seasoning timber at the school's Dorset campus, using short lengths of wood taken from neighbouring beech trees (+ slideshow). More about Architectural Association students build woodland shelter with a twisting lattice roof
News: students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have cleaned up at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening, with winning projects including a floating community centre for the Helsinki archipelago and a proposal to rebuild 250 Russian churches. More about RIBA President's Medals Student Awards 2013 all go to one London school
This fly-through animation of Steven Holl's design for a new Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa was created by 3D design students at the school (+ movie). More about Movie: Iowa University Visual Arts Building by Steven Holl
This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). More about Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School
This series of hand drawings by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Ned Scott presents a science-fiction world in which London grows a jungle of crops for fuel and food next to Buckingham Palace. More about The War Rooms, St. James's Park by Ned Scott
Movie: plants take over the offices of London's commercial district Canary Wharf in this movie by Oxford Brookes architecture graduate Richard Black. More about Movie: The Symbiotic Office by Richard Black
This movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development. More about Megalomania by Jonathan Gales
A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. More about RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2011
This timelapse movie shows how a group of Oporto University architecture graduates, who call themselves Dose, constructed a spiky temporary bar for a student festival using blue plastic tubes and cable ties. More about Bluetube Bar by Dose
A spiky kindergarten and a bulbous sports centre with rooftop funnels are included in this conceptual community by architecture students at Lund University, Sweden. More about Lilla Råby by Anahita Nahoomi, Lina Davidsson, Miranda Westfelt and Robert Janson
This step ladder by Latvian designer Arthur Analts can rest flat against the wall, fit into a corner at 45 degrees or rest securely in a corner at 25 degrees, thanks to the shape of its top and bottom rungs. More about Led Zeppelin by Arthur Analts
These lamps are turned on when you pull their nipples. More about Nipple lights by Naama Arbel
Young designer Rami Tareef creates chairs with geometric patterns by wrapping and weaving cords around spare, steel frames. More about COD by Rami Tareef
Furniture designers' obsession with clamps has taken a new turn with this stool held together with one of the woodworking tools. More about Clamped Stools by Daniel Glazman
New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. More about Broo-ver by Ben Fursdon
Robots of Brixton is a sci-fi animation by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kibwe Tavares in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture in scenes reminiscent of the 1981 Brixton riots in London. More about Robots of Brixton by Kibwe Tavares
This bright green pavilion by Polish students Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska provides spectator stands for a football pitch and a basketball court in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More about Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska