The LEED Gold-designed facility efficiently generates electricity as well as hot and cold water for the school’s expansion into Boston's Allston neighborhood.

The best new campus architecture reflects the evolving priorities of colleges and universities.

The university is gaining a student center by BIG, as TWBC's brick Mattin Center is destroyed.

In this special section, we explore how colleges and universities are enriching the experience of education by using smart design to meet current sustainability demands, deploying conventional materials in inventive ways, and engaging with the community on campus and beyond.

SANAA meshes a sinuous cluster of gossamer buildings into the rigid urban plan of Bocconi University’s campus in Milan.

A mixed-use tower complex by NADAAA with Perkins&Will engages its urban surroundings.

A residential college by Barkow Leibinger continues the tradition of good design at Rice University.

A sustainable classroom building by Susan T. Rodriguez | Architecture • Design in collaboration with OPAL embodies the mission of the an environmentally oriented college in Maine.

Teeple Architects’ student-services center at Morgan State provides a welcoming new gateway.