Circular holes connect playgrounds on two levels of a Lisbon school
Portuguese studio Site Specific Arquitectura has renovated a 1950s school in Lisbon and added a dual-level extension with round openings connecting its outdoor spaces. More
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School in Lisbon by ARX Portugal features rooftop playground
Redbridge School in Lisbon by ARX Portugal is formed of two wood-framed buildings clad with metal, one featuring a playground on its roof. More
Sarit Shani Hay designs Tel Aviv elementary school to encourage "joyful experiential learning"
Israeli designer Sarit Shani Hay has designed wooden built-in furniture to promote collaboration, play and rest in an elementary school in Tel Aviv. More
Walters & Cohen clads King's International College building in weathered steel
Architecture firm Walters & Cohen uses weathered steel and concrete for King's International College in Canterbury, Kent, to reference the site's industrial heritage. More
Irregular balconies surround social housing stacked over school in Paris
O4A is a Paris development with a primary school, sports centre and two tower blocks of social housing by architecture studios Brisac Gonzalez and Antoine Régnault. More
Brightly coloured classroom designed to harvest water in Thailand
Architecture studio Pareid and students from Chulalongkorn University have built an open-walled classroom around two water collecting funnels in western Thailand. More
SpaceMatters uses red and white sandstone for medical college in Agroha
White stone lattice surrounds the entrance to a paramedical college in Agroha, India, clad in red sandstone by architecture practice SpaceMatters. More
Branch Studio uses plywood and perforated metal for Arts Epicentre
A perforated metal screen shades the plywood interiors of a performing arts centre for a college in Victoria, Australia, by Branch Studio Architects. More
Lundgaard & Tranberg clads cylindrical school in perforated metal
A perforated metal facade screens a round school in Denmark designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter around a central triple-height gym. More
School for squatters in India can be dismantled to evade bulldozers
Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for farming communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. More
OMA combines sports and science at Brighton College
Dutch architecture studio OMA has unveiled the School of Science and Sports at a historic college in Brighton, which merges academic and athletic facilities in one building. More
Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland
Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. More
Colourful public spaces are part of Pazdigrad Primary School in Croatia
Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow More
Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More
BIG designs twisting Virginia school The Heights
BIG has arranged the classrooms of this white-brick and glass school in Arlington, Virginia in a fan-shape to allow for a "cascading terraces". More
Natural light fills courtyard of Foster + Partners' Samson Pavilion in Cleveland
Glazed walls, a large metal roof and a vast central atrium feature in an academic building designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners for an emerging medical campus in Ohio. More
Pink concrete staircase connects colourful floors of Belgian school
A pink concrete staircase, gabled roofs and brightly coloured walls define a school with in Zarren, Belgium, designed by architecture studio Felt. More
Rocky hillside used as walls and floors for Hilltop School in Hyderabad
The rocky hillside surrounding an 800-year-old fortress forms several of the walls and floors of this school by DesignAware in Hyderabad, India. More
ZMIK turn school corridors into playful learning spaces
Swiss design studio ZMIK has transformed three corridors at a primary school in Basel into flexible learning-spaces designed to promote a sense of wellbeing. More
Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym
The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. More