Salmtal Secondary School Canteen by SpreierTrenner Architekten
A chequerboard of opaque panels and windows surrounds this school canteen in western Germany by SpreierTrenner Architekten (+ slideshow). More
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RMIT Swanston Academic Building by Lyons
This university building in Melbourne by Australian architects Lyons is covered in brightly coloured scales (+ slideshow). More
"People in Vietnam want green buildings" - Vo Trong Nghia on Binh Duong School
World Architecture Festival 2012: Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia won two awards at the World Architecture Festival and in this second interview he discusses how "green buildings" that use less energy are the future of architecture in Vietnam, like his naturally ventilated Binh Duong School that won the schools category. More
"An art college should be a blank canvas" - Paul Williams on Central Saint Martins
World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Paul Williams of Stanton Williams tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs why his team designed the new campus for London art and design college Central Saint Martins as "a blank canvas" where different disciplines could "take form and ownership", in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival last month. More
Biosciences Research Building by Lyons
A louvred wooden X-shape filled with staircases connects the two laboratory wings of this scientific research centre by architects Lyons at the Australian National University in Canberra (photos by Dianna Snape + slideshow). More
Marne-la-Vallée Central University Library by Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes
This university library in Paris by French practice Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes has a knobbly concrete facade that looks like blocks of earth. More
Bouroullec Collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Hay
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed all the furniture for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen, which is due to reopen in January. More
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Education
Signature architecture "worries me" - new IIT architecture dean Wiel Arets
News: Dutch architect Wiel Arets (above), the new dean of the architecture college at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has set out his vision for the school, rejecting fashionable form-making in favour of greater concern for the public realm. More
Katowice Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library by HS99
A grid of red sandstone panels dominates every side of this university library in Katowice, Poland, by architects HS99 (+ slideshow). More
Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams wins 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize
News: the Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams has been awarded the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for the most significant contribution to British architecture this year. More
École Centrale Engineering School by OMA
OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for the École Centrale school of engineering in France by proposing a 'superblock' of separate buildings within a single gridded structure (+ slideshow). More
The Dyson Building by Haworth Tompkins
This factory-like building by architects Haworth Tompkins is the new home for print-making and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. More
Simon Smith Building at Brighton College by Allies and Morrison
Architects Allies and Morrison have added this gabled extension to a nineteenth century boarding school in Brighton, England. More
Lycée Georges Frêche by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. More
Binh Duong School by Vo Trong Nghia
Caged balconies provide open-air corridors that are sheltered from harsh sunlight and tropical rain at this school in Vietnam by architects Vo Trong Nghia. More
Music School Louviers extension by Opus 5
French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France (+ slideshow). More
Columbia University Medical Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York's Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. More
Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM
French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). More
Administration Curricular Building Liceo María Auxiliadora by Surco Studio
Chilean architects Surco Studio have completed a rusted steel and concrete entrance and administration block for a school in Chile that was severely damaged by an earthquake. More
Guelmim Technology School by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana
Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here's a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. More