Irregular holes dotting the concrete walls of this tower at a university campus in the Argentinian city of Cordoba frame views of the surrounding landscape from the workshops within. More about Angular openings puncture concrete facades of university tower by Morini Arquitectos
A+Awards: next in our series of Architizer A+Award winners is Studio 804's glazed extension to the stone architecture school at the University of Kansas. More about University of Kansas architecture school extension features double-layered glass skin
A cluster of brick-clad buildings with jagged roof lines form this student residential complex at Amherst College by American firm Kyu Sung Woo Architects. More about Kyu Sung Woo designs student housing for historic Massachusetts college
Rows of metal sun louvres slotted between structural concrete fins help to shade the glazed facade of this university building near Tel Aviv by local architects David S Robins and Dan Price. More about Fins of metal mesh and concrete shield Tel Aviv school of entrepreneurship from the sun
Grimshaw has completed the renovation and expansion of Duke University's West Campus Union in Durham, North Carolina, where the UK firm has added a glass box in the centre of the historic building. More about Grimshaw overhauls student union at North Carolina university
The Bartlett School of Architecture now has a new Hawkins\Brown-designed facility in central London featuring a staircase designed as a "social generator" and studios with no doors. More about Hawkins\Brown remodels Bloomsbury building for The Bartlett architecture school
American studio Weiss Manfredi has used glass, brick and concrete to form a new home for the architectural and environmental design programs at Kent State University in Ohio. More about Weiss Manfredi drapes jagged brick sash over facade of Ohio architecture school
RIBA International Prize: a vertical, concrete university campus in Peru by Grafton Architects has been named world's best new building by the Royal Institute of British Architects. More about Grafton Architects wins inaugural RIBA International Prize for university campus in Peru
Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design the new Royal College of Art campus in Battersea, southwest London. More about Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for new Royal College of Art campus
Construction started today on a Singapore design school that will produce all of its own energy and more. More about National University of Singapore starts building zero-energy design school
Irregularly shaped perforations in the pale green facades of this new university research institute in Portugal are inspired by the tubular molecules that form solar panels. More about Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho
Foster + Partners has used custom-made bricks to build a campus near Shenzhen, encompassing a university, a hotel and housing that all take in views of the South China Sea. More about Foster + Partners uses extra-long bricks for Chinese university campus
US studio Morphosis has completed a science, design and engineering facility in Michigan, which features a scrim made of ETFE plastic and an entrance stairwell contained within a black orb made of carbon fibre. More about Carbon-fibre orb marks entrance to Detroit academic building by Morphosis
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed a light-filled neuroscience research facility at Columbia University's new campus in Upper Manhattan. More about Renzo Piano completes "palace of light" for Columbia University medical researchers
US studio Hollwich Kushner has transformed an old paint factory into the Pennovation Center, which contains labs, co-working areas and social spaces for entrepreneurs and researchers. More about Hollwich Kushner creates University of Pennsylvania incubator space with spiky glass facade
Swiss studio Züst Gübeli Gambetti has completed a long, narrow building that steps up a grassy hillside, to provide extra teaching space at an ETH Zurich university campus. More about Züst Gübeli Gambetti adds staircase-shaped building to ETH Zurich university campus
Global firm Gensler has completed a university building in Kansas that consists of volumes clad in concrete, glass and weathering steel, and interior spaces intended to promote unexpected interactions (+ slideshow). More about Gensler creates opportunities for "chance encounters" inside Kansas business school
US firm Studio Gang has completed a student residential complex for the University of Chicago that features towers sheathed in glass and sculptural white concrete panels (+ movie). More about Studio Gang clads Chicago student housing complex in wavy strips of concrete
US firm Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has completed an academic facility on the Berkeley campus in California that is topped with an expansive, overhanging canopy made up of solar cells (+ slideshow). More about Leddy Maytum Stacy covers entire roof of Berkeley design centre with photovoltaics
Canadian studios KPMB Architects and HCMA Architecture + Design have completed an alumni centre for the University of British Columbia with angled, fritted-glass facades that "change dramatically from day to night" (+ slideshow). More about Vancouver university building by KPMB and HCMA features fritted glass and rough-sawn cedar