London firm Squire and Partners has revived traditional building techniques and combined them with contemporary details to create a workshop for a school in south-east England (+ slideshow). More about Squire and Partners celebrates craftsmanship with school design and technology workshop
A pool with a stationary boat on top is the centrepiece of this rowing centre designed by Mulroy Architects for a private boarding school in Oxfordshire, England (+ movie). More about Mulroy Architects completes timber-clad rowing centre for Oxford school
A cookery school is housed behind the glazed facade of this contemporary shed, recently completed by Satellite Architects at the headquarters of British TV programme River Cottage (+ slideshow). More about Satellite Architects adds a new cookery school to the River Cottage headquarters
British firm Hawkins\Brown has added a music school and boarding house to a school in Surrey, England, featuring sandy coloured brickwork and timber screens that reference musical annotation (+ slideshow). More about Hawkins\Brown finds musical references for timber-clad school recital hall
Mottled red brickwork was used to build the gabled walls of this English school library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop, who more recently completed a humanities building for a historic school elsewhere in the country (+ slideshow). More about Angular brick gables frame Kings College Library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop
News: well-designed classrooms can improve the academic performance of primary school pupils by 25 percent according to a new study undertaken by the University of Salford and UK architects Nightingale Associates. More about Well-designed schools improve learning by 25 percent says new study
London studio Nicholas Hare Architects used a palette of yellow brick, bronzed aluminium and unfinished timber to construct this secondary school in Essex, England (+ slideshow). More about Cornelius Vermuyden School by Nicholas Hare Architects
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
News: there will be no curved or glass walls on any new school buildings constructed in the UK, thanks to a set of government guidelines released this week. More about UK government bans curved school buildings
A shiny copper chapel hovers above the entrance to this Catholic school in Gloucestershire, England, by London studio Nicholas Hare Architects. More about All Saints' Academy by Nicholas Hare Architects
Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. More about Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects wins RIBA Stirling Prize
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects designed this school in Wakefield, England, using red bricks and industrial building shapes that reflect the surrounding vernacular. More about Sandal Magna Community Primary School by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have completed this school that bridges a running track in Brixton, south London. More about Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dezeenwire: the UK government has announced it is abandoning plans to build or refurbish 715 schools and scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive: Department for Education
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London firm Rundell Associates have completed this new art and design department at a secondary school in Devon, UK. More about West Buckland School by Rundell Associates
London architect Foster + Partners have completed an academy clad in wood in Berkshire, UK. More about The Langley Academy by Foster + Partners
London architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan have completed an extension to a primary school in south London. More about Clapham Manor Primary School by dRMM
Pond Meadows, a special needs school designed by London architects DSDHA, has opened in Guildford, England. More about Pond Meadows Special Needs School by DSDHA