Blue-bottomed boxes form Open Architecture's ocean research centre in Shenzhen
Boxy volumes with blue undersides shelter terraces in this deep-ocean research centre in Shenzhen, China, designed by Open Architecture to have sea-like features. More
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RCA named world's top design school for third year running
The Royal College of Art has again been named the world's leading art and design university, according to a recent international survey. More
Daniel Libeskind completes larch-clad cosmology centre for Durham University
Daniel Libeskind has revealed his latest project – an £11.5-million centre for cosmology and astronomy researchers at Durham University in England. More
Asaf Lerman updates Oscar Niemeyer's Haifa University library building in Israel
Tel Aviv architect Asaf Lerman has renovated a library building designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Israel's Haifa University, and added a new wing to complement its brutalist concrete and glass construction. More
1100 Architect extends historic residence to create new University of Pennsylvania student centre
The University of Pennsylvania has added a new centre for international affairs to its campus in Philadelphia, extending a small cottage built in 1851 with an angular stone-clad form. More
Angular openings puncture concrete facades of university tower by Morini Arquitectos
Irregular holes dotting the concrete walls of this tower at a university campus in the Argentinian city of Cordoba frame views of the surrounding landscape from the workshops within. More
University of Kansas architecture school extension features double-layered glass skin
A+Awards: next in our series of Architizer A+Award winners is Studio 804's glazed extension to the stone architecture school at the University of Kansas. More
Kyu Sung Woo designs student housing for historic Massachusetts college
A cluster of brick-clad buildings with jagged roof lines form this student residential complex at Amherst College by American firm Kyu Sung Woo Architects. More
Fins of metal mesh and concrete shield Tel Aviv school of entrepreneurship from the sun
Rows of metal sun louvres slotted between structural concrete fins help to shade the glazed facade of this university building near Tel Aviv by local architects David S Robins and Dan Price. More
Grimshaw overhauls student union at North Carolina university
Grimshaw has completed the renovation and expansion of Duke University's West Campus Union in Durham, North Carolina, where the UK firm has added a glass box in the centre of the historic building. More
Hawkins\Brown remodels Bloomsbury building for The Bartlett architecture school
The Bartlett School of Architecture now has a new Hawkins\Brown-designed facility in central London featuring a staircase designed as a "social generator" and studios with no doors. More
Weiss Manfredi drapes jagged brick sash over facade of Ohio architecture school
American studio Weiss Manfredi has used glass, brick and concrete to form a new home for the architectural and environmental design programs at Kent State University in Ohio. More
Grafton Architects wins inaugural RIBA International Prize for university campus in Peru
RIBA International Prize: a vertical, concrete university campus in Peru by Grafton Architects has been named world's best new building by the Royal Institute of British Architects. More
Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for new Royal College of Art campus
Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design the new Royal College of Art campus in Battersea, southwest London. More
National University of Singapore starts building zero-energy design school
Construction started today on a Singapore design school that will produce all of its own energy and more. More
Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho
Irregularly shaped perforations in the pale green facades of this new university research institute in Portugal are inspired by the tubular molecules that form solar panels. More
Foster + Partners uses extra-long bricks for Chinese university campus
Foster + Partners has used custom-made bricks to build a campus near Shenzhen, encompassing a university, a hotel and housing that all take in views of the South China Sea. More
Carbon-fibre orb marks entrance to Detroit academic building by Morphosis
US studio Morphosis has completed a science, design and engineering facility in Michigan, which features a scrim made of ETFE plastic and an entrance stairwell contained within a black orb made of carbon fibre. More
Renzo Piano completes "palace of light" for Columbia University medical researchers
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed a light-filled neuroscience research facility at Columbia University's new campus in Upper Manhattan. More
Hollwich Kushner creates University of Pennsylvania incubator space with spiky glass facade
US studio Hollwich Kushner has transformed an old paint factory into the Pennovation Center, which contains labs, co-working areas and social spaces for entrepreneurs and researchers. More