A school with colourful volumes and sinuous curves by Trace Architecture Office won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Architecture project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. More
PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos have transformed a building at a former Catholic college into the School at Marygrove Elementary, filling it with colours and shapes that help spark "experimentation and exploration" among children. More
Intersecting blockwork walls and an overhanging zinc roof characterise Simba Vision Montessori School in rural Tanzania by local studio Architectural Pioneering Consultants and Wolfgang Rossbauer. More
Old and new buildings wrap around a stepped courtyard in this central London school, which has been renovated by architecture studio Hawkins\Brown. More
The conversion of an abandoned radio station into Houlton School near Rugby, UK, has won RIBA's inaugural Reinvention Award. More
Branch Studio Architects has created a dusty-pink student welfare centre at an all-boys school in Melbourne to provide a space for discussing mental health. More
Following the start of a new academic year in much of the world, searches for school buildings have seen a 60 per cent increase on Pinterest. Here are 11 striking examples from our boards. More
Local studio Hacker Architects has renovated and expanded a 60-year-old athletic facility at the Oregon Episcopal School, aiming to make it an "inclusive, equitable and future-forward campus hub". More
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has designed a school building that prioritises low-carbon solutions and water retention on restored woodlands outside of San Francisco. More
American firm Gensler and an in-house team at the Swiss company EF Education First have updated a historic school campus in Pasadena by renovating buildings and adding new dormitories with roofs that allude to a nearby mountain range. More
Decorative brick-clad buildings fold around courtyards at the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka, a boarding school in Bangladesh designed by British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with architecture studio Shatotto Architecture for Green Living. More
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a colourful secondary school in China, which Trace Architecture Office has designed as a "celebration of creativity". More
Brightly coloured volumes and sweeping curves create a playful atmosphere in the Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School, which Trace Architecture Office has added to the Chinese island of Hainan. More
Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. More
French designer Philippe Starck has revealed his design for the Qatar Preparatory School at an exhibition of upcoming buildings in Qatar during the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
David Gianotten and Michael den Otter of Dutch studio OMA have designed a modular, mass-timber system that will be used to construct up to 30 schools in the Netherlands. More
UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library, a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. More
Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school, created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. More
Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India, which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. More
Straw, eelgrass and wood feature in this bio-based extension that Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has added to Feldballe School in Denmark. More