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University Building Designs : Tertiary Education Architecture
post updated 12 February 2026
We choose key examples of University Building Designs. We aim to include Tertiary Education buildings that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and design competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary Tertiary Education buildings but information on key traditional buildings is also welcome.
University Building Design
University Buildings : news + key projects
University Building Designs : A-G (this page)
University Building Developments : H-R
University Architecture : S-Z
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University Architecture Designs
Major Contemporary Educational Projects + Academic Buildings from around the World.
Key University Building & Educational Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
7th of October University, Libya, North Africa
RMJM Architects

image from architects practice
Bani Walid building
Århus Arkitektskolen, Jutland, Denmark
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photo © Adrian Welch
Aarhus School of Architecture
Århus University buildings, Denmark
Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller

picture © Adrian Welch
Aarhus University buildings
Bangor University Pontio, north-west Wales
Grimshaw

image from architect
Bangor University Pontio
Bard College, USA
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects

picture © Brad Feinknopf
Bard College Building
Biokatalyse Building Graz, Austria
Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner

photo © Paul Ott
Technical University Graz
Bournville College, Birmingham, West Midlands, central England, UK
Design: Broadway Malyan

photograph from architects office
Bournville College
Brooklyn College, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects

image from architects firm
Brooklyn College Building
Brunel University Building, west London, England, UK
YRM Architects

picture from architect
Brunel University Building
Cambridge University School, Cambridgeshire, England
Mole Architects

photograph : David Butler
Cambridge School of Architecture
Churchill College Buildings, Cambridge, southeast England
Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners

photo © Adrian Welch
Churchill College Buildings
City of Westminster College, West London, UK
schmidt hammer lassen

image from architect
City of Westminster College
College of New Rochelle, USA
Design: ikon.5 architects

image from architects
American college building
Columbia University Extension, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) / SOM

picture from Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Columbia University Manhattan
Cornell University Architecture School, New York, USA
OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Cornell University Milstein Hall photo : by OMA
Cornell University School of Architecture
Danube University Krems, Austria
Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

photo : Barbara Feichtinger
Danube University Krems
Darwin College Extension, Cambridge, England
Dixon Jones Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
Darwin College Building
Faculty of Education, Cambridge, England, UK
Building Design Partnership

picture © Martine Hamilton Knight
Faculty of Education Cambridge
Faculty of History, England
James Stirling Architect

picture © Adrian Welch
History Faculty Cambridge
More University Architecture + College Building projects online soon.
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Educational Building Projects
Education Building Designs, no images, alphabetical:
Atlantic College, Glamorgan, Wales
2005-
Latitude Architects
Atlantic College Wales : Architecture competition win
Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates with A. M. Kinney + HERA
Bond University Campus, Queensland, Australia
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Arata Isozaki
Corpus Christi College – Auditorium, Oxford, England
2007-
Rick Mather Architects

picture from architect – no larger image
Corpus Christi Oxford College
Brasenose College, Oxford, England
1961
Powell & Moya Architects
Christ Church College – Blue Boar Quad, Oxford, England
1968
Powell & Moya Architects
Cambridge University Centre, UK
1967
Howard, Killick, Partridge & Amis, Architects
Educational Facility, UK
1958
Design: Colin St John Wilson
Cambridge University Library, UK
1934
Giles Gilbert Scott
Catholic University Santiago, Chile
2008
Alejandro Aravena
Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1940-
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Edifici University Campus – proposal, Barcelona, Catalunya, northeast Spain
2006-08
Zaha Hadid Architects
Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
2007
JCY Architects & Urban Designers
Frescati Campus – Lawyers’ Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
1990
Ralph Erskine
Frescati Campus – Sports Hall, Stockholm University, Sweden
1983
Ralph Erskine
Frescati Campus – Students’ Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
1981
Ralph Erskine
Gulf University for Science & Technology, Mishref, Kuwait
2008
KEO International Consultants
More New Education Building projects welcome.
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More Modern Education Development projects welcome.
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Educational Architectural Projects
Atlantic College Wales : Architecture competition win
Northwestern University building : Evanston campus
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Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Buildings / photos for the contemporary University Architecture – modern Tertiary Education Design page welcome.