David Chipperfield's Milan office has won a contest to design a new campus for one of the world's oldest surviving universities. More about David Chipperfield to convert old barracks into University of Padua campus
Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. More about Mobile Offices designs brutalist concrete architecture school in India
British firm Hopkins Architects and US studios Bruner/Cott Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates have overhauled a massive, 1960s building at Harvard University, adding in living walls and glazed rooms. More about Harvard's brutalist Smith Campus Center receives dramatic makeover by Hopkins
Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a zero-energy design school in Singapore featuring breezy open-air learning spaces. More about National University of Singapore's SDE4 building is a prototype of sustainable design
New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed it design for a new campus building at the University of Toronto, featuring indented floors that cut into one side. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils "eroded" building for University of Toronto
The Royal College of Art in London has announced plans to expand its science and technology programme, and revealed that student applications from within the European Union have risen in the past year. More about RCA announces new focus on science after an increase in applications from the EU
Despite decayed masonry and worn concrete, Mexico City's mid-century university campus is still abuzz with student life according to photographer Yueqi Jazzy Li, who has documented the UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in this set of photos. More about Mexico City's "modernist haven" UNAM captured in photos by Jazzy Li
California-based firm Kevin Daly Architects has designed a sports complex for UCLA's basketball teams with fin-like panels and a wavy roofline with numerous skylights. More about Kevin Daly Architects builds crinkled complex for UCLA's basketball teams
Pebble-like seats in pastel hues offer students a place to recline in this recreational area, which Igarashi Design Studio has created for an arts university in Tokyo. More about Igarashi Design Studio's Zero Space is filled with furniture based on river-weathered pebbles
A glazed box revealing floors wrapped in a terracotta screen forms part of this new academic facility, designed by CO Architects for a university in Kansas City. More about CO Architects creates highly transparent Health Education Building in Kansas
John Wardle Architects imagined a landscape with ravines, clearings and escarpments when designing the spaces of the Learning & Teaching Building at Monash University's Clayton Campus in Melbourne, Australia. More about John Wardle Architects takes cues from natural landscape for Monash University building
American studio John Ronan Architects has completed an academic building at the Illinois Institute of Technology that is meant to have a "light, cloud-like appearance". More about John Ronan wraps IIT's Kaplan Institute in ETFE and glass
Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. More about Snøhetta completes ultra-efficient HouseZero at Harvard University
A massive curving slab of concrete covers the new school of architecture building at the University of Miami, by local firm Arquitectonica. More about Warped concrete roof tops Miami architecture school by Arquitectonica
American studio Deborah Berke Partners has completed a student dormitory for a small Pennsylvania college, with different cladding materials on the building's opposing sides. More about Deborah Berke Partners clads High Street Residence Hall in stone and zinc
A jagged roofline and textured facades define a dual-purpose university facility by Perkins+Will in Kapolei, a growing town on the mountainous island of Oahu. More about Traditional fabric influences patterns across University of Hawaii building by Perkins+Will
German firm Behnisch Architekten has renovated a 1970s urban academic building in Oregon, and created an addition that consists of "shifting" wood-clad boxes and a glazed atrium. More about Behnisch Architekten overhauls business school at Portland State University
Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse has won this year's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for its fragmented concrete university building in rural northern Peru. More about Barclay & Crousse's "deceptively simple" school in Peru wins Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his third building for Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus in Harlem, a project he describes as an "interesting experiment" in gentrification. More about Renzo Piano tops Columbia University's The Forum with staggered concrete auditorium
The metal-clad inner and outer facades at this student housing project for the Olympe de Gouges University in Toulouse incorporate operable shutters that alter the appearance of the buildings. More about Metal shutters vary the facades of Toulouse student housing scheme by PPA Architectures