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School Architecture – Education Design
Major Educational Design Developments from around the World
post updated 30 January 2026
We select what we feel are the key examples of School Architecture.
We cover completed education buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. Our focus is on contemporary Education buildings.
We have 5 pages of School Architecture selections.
Guide to School Architecture
School Buildings : news + key projects
School Building Developments : A-E
School Building Designs : F-K
School Architecture Designs : L-O
School Architecture : P-Z (this page)
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School Architecture Designs
Modern Education Architecture Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
28 Jan 2024
Sustainable School Design: Buildings
Design: BDP
image courtesy of architects practice
Sustainable School Design
Lessons Learnt for Sustainable School Design. Scotland has ambitious environmental goals. It is five years since the Paris agreement.
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24 Dec 2023
West House Boarding House, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Architects: MICA
West House Boarding House
In continuation of MICA’s long standing relationship with Stowe School, they have been appointed to design a new Sixth Form Boarding House and associated landscaping adjacent to the West Houses within its historic grounds in Buckinghamshire, England.
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22 May 2013
Rivers Academy, London, England, UK
Design: Jonathan Clark Architects
image from architects
Rivers Academy Building
This is a new steel-framed single storey pavilion building with a cantilevered roof canopy. The main objective here was to add a completely new, modern and welcoming administration and reception area in front of the existing entrance to suit the size of the school today and better encourage parents to access the school and facilitate dealing with visitors.
29 Apr 2013
St Paul’s School Science Building, London, England, UK
Design: Nicholas Hare Architects
photo : Alan Williams Photography
The science departments at St Paul’s School have just moved into their new building, which was handed over in January 2013. NHA were appointed in 2006 to develop the whole school masterplan proposed by architects Patel Taylor on its prominent riverside site in Barnes.
23 Apr 2013
Trumpington Community College Building, Cambridge, England, UK
Design: Avanti Architects
image from architects studio
Trumpington Community College Building
Trumpington Community College will provide places for 750 students and be at the heart of Clay Farm, an urban extension to the south of Cambridge, as 4,000 new homes are built over the next decade. When the new five-form-entry school – which will specialise in science opens, students will be welcomed into a 21st century learning environment.
12 Apr 2013
School by the Lagoon, Sri Lanka, South Asia
Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates
photo from architects
Sri Lankan School Building
The Two thousand Four boxing day tsunami was the worst natural disaster to hit Sri Lanka in living memory. For a country already reeling from a two and a half decade old war the timing of the tsunami could not have been worse.
11 Mar 2013
School Building in Frederikshavn, Jutland, Denmark
Design: Arkitema Architects
photo : Kontraframe
Jutland School Building
This building’s star shape gives an optimum background for natural ventilation and easy access to the playground. This new school design has two floors for the older students and one floor for the smallest children.
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23 Jul 2012
School CEIP Josep Guinovart, Castelldefels, Catalunya, north east Spain
Design: Pich-Aguilera Architects
photo : Simon Garcia • arqfoto
School CEIP Josep Guinovart
31 Jan 2012
Panyaden School, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Design: 24H > architecture
photo © Ally Taylor / Panyaden School
Thailand School Building
In the lush green surroundings of a former fruit orchard, where Thailand’s highest mountains meet the flat rice fields, Panyaden School contracted this Dutch architecture studio to design its environmentally friendly school buildings. This 5,000 m2 primary school consists of an informal arrangement of pavilions, organized along pathways inspired by the shape of the tropical antler horn fern.
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22 Aug 2011
Sølvgade School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Design: C. F. Moller Architects
photo from architects
Sølvgade School Building
Denmark’s oldest school, the listed Sølvgade School built in 1847, close to King Christian IV’s famous historic naval barracks, Nyboder, in Copenhagen, has for many years been lacking space and modern facilities. Danish architects C. F. Moller carefully renovated the school and done an extension which in its form and colors is true to the surroundings, but also adds a modernistic twist to the school.
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29 Sep 2010
Tianjin Xiqing Elementary School, Tianjin, northeastern China
Design: Vector Architect studio
photograph from architect
Tianjin Xiqing School
The competition program called for a design of an elementary school of 48 classes. The major functions include regular classrooms, special program classrooms, cafeteria, training gymnasium, administration areas and an outdoor exercise field.
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29 Sep 2009
Thor Heyerdahl School, Larvik, Norway
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen
picture from architects
Thor Heyerdahl School
The Thor Heyerdahl School of Advanced and Further Education in Larvik, Norway has been inaugurated. The 33,400 m2 new school, designed by the Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, is the largest new school building in Norway.
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Education Building Developments
Key Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
Paredes School, Portugal
Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes
photographs : Nelson Garrido
Paredes School Building
Peer Per School, Belgium
Bekkering Adams Architects
picture from architects
Peer Per School
Primetime Nursery School, Brazil
Marcio Kogan
building photo : Nelson Kon
Brazilian nursery school, São Paulo
School Brug, Belgium
UArchitects + LENS°ASS architecten
picture from architects
School Brug
School in Campinas, SP, Brazil
UNA arquitetos
image : Nelson Kon
School in Campinas, São Paulo state
School in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria
franz zt
image : lisa rastl © franz zt gmbh
School in Deutsch-Wagram
School in Paspels, Switzerland
Valerio Olgiati Architect
building photo © Archive Olgiati
Paspels School Building
Tellus Nursery School, Stockholm, Sweden
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
picture : Åke E:son Lindman
Tellus Nursery School
Templestowe Park Primary, Australia
McBride Charles Ryan
photograph © John Gollings
Templestowe Park Primary School
Wellington Academy Building, Wiltshire, England, UK
BDP
picture from architects
Westminster Academy, London, southeast England, UK
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)
photograph © Tim Soar
Westminster Academy Naim Dangoor Ctr.
Whitehead Building, University of London, England, UK
A-EM Studio Ltd
photo from CABE
Goldsmiths College Building
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Modern School Architecture Designs Archive
Education Buildings, No Images, alphabetical:
St Bridget’s Montessori School, Sri Lanka
1963
Geoffrey Bawa with Laki Senanayake
Sculzendorf school redevelopment, Berlin, Germany
2008
zanderroth architekten
Strawberry Vale School, Canada
1997
Patkau Architects Inc, Vancouver
Teresian School / Col-legi de les Tersianes, Barcelona, Spain
1894
Antoni Gaudí Architect
More Contemporary School Architecture Designs welcome.
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Education Architecture – Links to key buildings
Langley Academy Building
Hazelwood School, Glasgow, Scotland
Nursery School Buildings : Designs
picture : Åke E:son Lindman
Better School Design – Article for e-architect
photo : Article 25
French School Lycee Franco Japonais
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New Architecture Design
Scottish Education Architecture Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary School Buildings Designs page welcome.