Avenues: The World School is a new private international learning community that introduces an educational model that responds to the unique educational needs of 21st-century students. Archi.: Perkins Eastman

The research center is a forward-looking institution, and the architecture looks to the future with a formal language that can expand or transform without compromising the visual character of the complex. Archi.: Zaha Hadid

Modern purpose gives creative life to vernacular form at SUNY Morrisville Center for Design and Technology. The 23,000 sf LEED Silver building has itself become a teaching tool for the College's new courses in sustainable architecture and interior design. Arch.: Perkins Eastman

The 50.000 sm (540,000 sf) Chongqing Library is an important educational, cultural, and social center where people will meet to study, access knowledge, and exchange ideas. Arch.: Perkins Eastman Architects

Masaryk University Campus is the largest project of its kind in the Czech Republic. Currently the last parts of this imposing high-tech building are near to completion. Arch.: Amos Design

Halley VI designed by AECOM and Hugh Broughton Architects for British Antarctic Survey is being built in Antarctica by Galliford Try International. Arch.: Broughton Architects London

A visitor centre at the game reserve Takern in Östergötland, Sweden, aimed at a building that could be both invisible and astonishing. Archi.: Wingardhs, Goeteborg / Sweden

At Lindholmen in Gothenburg a university campus, a research centre and numerous technological enterprises are established in an old wharf. Arch.: Wingardhs, Goeteborg / Sweden

That efficiently designed buildings are often aesthetically attractive is once more proved by the Princess Elisabeth Station. Arch.: International Polar Foundation, Bruessel