Assemble turns derelict New Orleans building into experimental fashion school
London studio Assemble has transformed an industrial property in New Orleans into a hub for the local community to learn fashion design and manufacturing. More
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Ralf Pasel and students use handmade bricks for boarding house at Bolivia school
Red handmade bricks and corrugated metal form this dormitory at a school in an Andean village in Bolivia, which was designed and built by Berlin architecture students and German architect Ralf Pasel. More
Colliding gabled structures form Hannae Forest of Wisdom community centre
Unsangdong Architects has designed the Hannae Forest of Wisdom community centre in Seoul with a row of intersecting gabled forms enclosed by glass end walls. More
Slender pine slats enclose Evans Tree House in Arkansas by Modus Studio
American firm Modus Studio has used steel and heat-treated pine to build an "alive and mysterious" treehouse in Arkansas. More
BIG completes vortex-shaped Glasir education centre in Faroe Islands' capital
Danish studio BIG has completed a sculptural, glass-walled building containing three schools beside a fjord in the Faroe Islands' capital Tórshavn. More
Sarah Whiting named first female dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architect Sarah Whiting has been appointed dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Design. More
BIG wraps Massachusetts university building with "domino effect" copper walls
Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed an extension to the business school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with gradually sloping walls that resemble falling dominos. More
David Chipperfield to convert old barracks into University of Padua campus
David Chipperfield's Milan office has won a contest to design a new campus for one of the world's oldest surviving universities. More
Wood and bright colours define Spanish youth centre by B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a "comforting" place. More
Tracks Architectes designs timber-clad kindergarten with gabled forms in France
A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. More
Mobile Offices designs brutalist concrete architecture school in India
Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. More
Will Alsop's Neuron Pod education centre opens at Centre of the Cell
An education centre shaped like a oversized neuron cell, designed by the late Will Alsop for his practice All Design, has opened at Centre of the Cell in Whitechapel, London. More
Medusa Group designs timber-clad school with herb garden roof
Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. More
Harvard's brutalist Smith Campus Center receives dramatic makeover by Hopkins
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
Travertine clads walls of school in Cannes by Atelier Stéphane Fernandez
Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. More
Berlin workshop transformed into theatre school by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst
Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. More
National University of Singapore's SDE4 building is a prototype of sustainable design
Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a zero-energy design school in Singapore featuring breezy open-air learning spaces. More
Cobe and MVRDV build Roskilde Festival Folk High School in an abandoned factory
Roskilde Festival Folk High School campus in Roskilde, Denmark, has been built by Cobe and MVRDV inside a former concrete factory. More
Fallingwater outbuilding renovated into student workshop and studio by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has turned a garage close to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house into an education centre for summer residency students. More
Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer
Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. More