At Avenues: The World School New York—the first location of what will be a network of private pre-K-12 schools—Perkins Eastman added public seating spaces on each floor of the building, allowing students to spend more time out of the classroom every year.

Sixthriver Architects enclosed the theater space at University of Texas at Austin’s Callaway House residence hall in glass, based on its Millennial residents’ desire to be interactive, seen, and social.

For the new CoMAD URBN Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia, MSR developed a raw, artist’s loft feel with movable walls that set the space up as a workshop for design.

Gow Hastings Architects created a new building housing Durham College’s Centre for Food in Whitby, Ontario. The facility includes Bistro ’67, a 70-seat teaching restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows that offer views of the campus.

Ground café, designed by Bentel & Bentel Architects, is located in the Marcel Breuer-designed Becton Center at Yale University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Walls are covered in walnut planks, perforated aluminum, and cleft bluestone, and the space includes LuxED, a 23,000 diode LED “digital canvas.”

For the new home of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Lehrer Architects built a new modernist building on an adjacent lot to the existing Mission-style Tolman-Bracher House. An interior courtyard features furniture made from recycled milk cartons.

MUSE, the renovation of the library at Sydney’s Macquarie University, completed by Woods Bagot (along with Bennett and Trimble and NBRS+Partners), includes bright colors, modular rubber furniture that can be used like building blocks, and movable walls on tracks to create fluid spaces.

Gensler completed the new graduate center at New York School of Interior Design in a sophisticated loft style with studio spaces on the perimeter to maximize natural light.

Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Saudi Arabia is the largest women’s university in the world. Designed by 150 Perkins+Will associates across five offices, the structure’s architectural screens—used both horizontally and vertically—are a transformation of the traditional veil worn by Muslim women.

Studios Architecture (in association with Mithun | Solomon, initiated as WRT/Solomon E.T.C.) crafted vibrant student housing and commons buildings for UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace. Featuring abundant daylight and sustainable elements throughout, the complex reinforces a visual connection to its urban surroundings.

The soon-to-be-unveiled City University of New York (CUNY) science campus, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, includes the Advanced Science and Research Center featuring a wide central stairway that connects the flowing floor plan and promotes partnerships among laboratories. The architectural glass guardrail shifts in color as the viewer’s angle changes, creating a fleeting iridescence.

Ruairidh Campbell Moir submitted an entry for Scotland’s Scenic Routes competition—a government initiative to add viewpoints around main tourist routes—just two days after he submitted for his master’s in architecture from University of Strathclyde. One of four viewpoints around Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, Campbell Moir’s entry is called “Sloc Nan Sitheanach” (Faerie Hollow).

The viewpoint is a peaceful hideaway, planted with wildflowers and offering views of Ben Ledi mountain. “The main structural and aesthetic element is the natural timber crib retaining wall,” Campbell Moir explains. “Aside from it being used to set out the excavated space and cradling plant life, its cavities offer strong chiaroscuro in sunlight.”

Campbell Moir chose mild steel for the addition of a waterjet-cut poem by Alexander Campbell, “Now Winter’s Wind Sweeps.” The steel “is currently rusting down, conveying the effect of time—a theme of the poem,” Campbell Moir says.