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School Architecture Designs
Major modern educational projects from around the World.
post updated 30 January 2026
e-architect’s editorial team select the key examples of School Architecture Designs.
Our online resource cover completed education buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across the world. The site focuses on contemporary Education buildings.
We have 5 pages of School Architecture selections.
Guide to School Architecture Designs
School Buildings : news + key projects
School Building Developments : A-E
School Building Designs : F-K
School Architecture Designs : L-O (this page)
School Architecture : P-Z
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New School Architectural Designs
Key New Education Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
24 November 2025
Paddock School in Tooting, London, England, UK
Design: Arcadis
photo : Peter Langdown Photography
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3 Oct 2022
School 360, East London, UK
Design: Penoyre & Prasad Architects
photo : Tim Crocker
London-based architecture practice Penoyre & Prasad, a studio of Perkins&Will, has designed a new 420-pupil primary school in Sugar House Island, East London. The new School will support the unique curriculum of the education provider, the Big Education Trust, and is sister to the Ofsted-rated ‘Outstanding’ School 21, in nearby Stratford.
1 Apr 2022
Nanaksar Primary School, Hillingdon, London, England
Design: CPMG Architects
photo courtesy of architects office
Hundreds of new primary school places will be the result of an extensive refurbishment and expansion of Nanaksar Primary School in Hillingdon, West London, which has now been completed.
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11 May 2019
Sudbourne Primary School Building, Brixton, London, UK
Design: HLM Architects
image courtesy of architecture office
Plans to transform a derelict site in Brixton into a new £9.25 million expansion of Sudbourne Primary School, designed by HLM Architects, have been given the go-ahead by The London Borough of Lambeth Planning Authorities.
More modern London School Buildings designs on e-architect soon.
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School Buildings 2010 – 2016
14 Oct 2016
Highgate Junior School, North London, England
Design: Architype Architects
photograph © DennisGilbert/VIEW
Highgate Junior School Building
3 Oct 2016
Latymer Upper School Sports Centre, London, England
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects
photo : Guy Archard
Latymer Upper School Sports Centre in London
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12 Mar 2013
Newlands School, London, England, UK
Design: Wright & Wright Architects
photograph : James Brittain
Newlands School Building
This is a Special Educational Needs School, a 3175 sq m new-build Special Educational Needs (SEN) school that is specifically designed for children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD). Located in the London Borough of Southwark, Newlands School is one of the last projects to be built through the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
22 Feb 2013
Lycée René Goscinny, Alpes-Maritimes, southern France
Design: José Morales architecte
photo : Philippe Ruault
Lycée René Goscinny
2 Jan 2013
Los Nogales School Buildings, Bogotá, Colombia
Design: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
photo : Rodrigo Davila
Los Nogales School Buildings
Los Nogales School’s Chapel building is conceived based on human life’s dualities. A pure and elemental prism represents the pureness, the essential and the harmony.
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School Architecture Designs in 2012
23 Jul 2012
N. Zahles Upper Secondary School, Copenhagen, Denmark – property extension
Architect: Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter ApS
photo © Adam Mørk
Upper Secondary School Building
Over a period of more than 150 years, the N. Zahles Upper Secondary School has held a prominent position within the education of children and young adults.
25 Apr 2012
Onze Droomschool, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Design: Mecanoo architecten
image : Mecanoo architecten
New Dutch School Building
The new 5,322 m² school building brings together education, care and medical science. The Vlij ‘Mytyl’ school, the Blije Gaarde school and the Dordtse Buitenschool collaborate in their new premises with the care support body Gemiva-SVG Group and the Rijndam revalidation centre.
2 Apr 2012
Mankgaile Primary School, Limpopo, South Africa
Design: SAOTA Architects
photo : SAOTA
Mankgaile Primary School
Sponsored by PetroSA, this new school development replaces a very rudimentary set of dilapidated buildings. The main entrance is placed at the end of a linear spine which arranges the central public square and two open air classroom courtyards containing nine rooms on two levels.
19 Mar 2012
Marquesa de Alorna School, Lisbon, Portugal
Design: José Neves
photo : Laura Castro Caldas & Paulo Cintra
Marquesa de Alorna School
The existing Marquesa de Alorna School building design by architect José Sobral Blanco in 1956, was one of the 50 schools built in Portugal according to the type promoted by the Construction Board for Secondary and Technical Education in the 1950s. Like many of these schools, it had two main bodies, one containing the academic and administrative areas, the other containing the gym and cafeteria.
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Modern Education Buildings
Key New Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
Langley Academy Buildings, England, UK
Design: Foster + Partners
picture from Foster + Partners
Michael Faraday Community School, London, UK
Design: Alsop Sparch Architects
photograph : Morley von Sternberg
Michael Faraday Community School
Niddrie Mill & St Francis Schools, Craigmillar, Edinburgh, Scotland
Design: Elder & Cannon
image : Keith Hunter
Craigmillar School Building, Edinburgh
Nigel Peck Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
John Wardle Architects
picture from architects
Melbourne School Building
Nursery School, Treviso, Venetia, northeast Italy
c+s associati
image from architect
Nursery School Treviso
Oldham Schools PFI project, north-west England
Architects Co-Partnership Ltd
photo from CABE
Oldham Schools Architecture, Manchester
Oslo International School Building, Norway
Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter
picture from architects
Oslo International School
More School Architecture Designs online soon.
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School Building Projects
Contemporary International Education Buildings Designs – no images:
Minami Yamashiro Primary School, Kyoto, Japan
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Richard Rogers Partnership
Newport High School, Newport, South Wales
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Evans & Shalev Architects
Oxford Academy School, England, UK
HKR Architects
Oxford Academy School building
Better School Design
Monthly Article for e-architect
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Education Building Developments
Buildings / photos for the New School Architecture Design page welcome.