As our summer holidays come to an end, it's back to work, and for those of us who have children, it's back to school. Aristotle once said, "Education is the best provision for old age." This adage couldn't be more true; and designers and architects are recognising the fact that with today's changing times, the hum-drum classrooms of generations before might not be the ideal environment in which to foster learning. One architectural firm that is revolutionising school design is Denmark-based 3XN. In Design Scene, we uncover their groundbreaking project, Orestad College, a super cool school we wish we had had growing up.

Like schools, libraries are synonymous with learning, and similarly, these book-filled institutions are also undergoing radical design changes. Forget the dusty bookshelves, the dim lighting and heavy brown-wooded spaces of before – from Kazakhstan to Germany, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands, In Focus reveals four of the world's most innovative library concepts that completely reinvent the notion of what a library should look like and how it should function.

For the home, we take you to North Yorkshire to visit Howsham Hall, a 400-year-old Jacobean mansion that was formerly a boys' school, which has been lovingly converted into a glamorously quirky family home. Also, check out Interiors, where we show you three inspiring looks for your study or home office that will make homework just a little more fun.

暑假已經完結，打工的要回到工作崗位，讀書的，也要回到校園。亞里士多德說過：「教育是老年最好的保障。」這個觀點真是再正確不過。很多設計師和建築師也看出今天時移世易，傳統方方正正的課室，未必是促進學習的理想環境。例如丹麥建築公司3XN便打破了傳統的框框，為Orestad College創建出精彩絕倫的校園；在Design Scene我們會帶大家前往欣賞這座人人夢寐以求的學校建築。

跟學校一樣，圖書館也是學習的地方，這些收藏著成千上萬本書籍的空間也正經歷設計大改變。鋪滿塵埃的書架、暗淡的光線、厚厚的木架佈局已不復再——哈薩克、德國、捷克和荷蘭有著全球最出色的圖書館建築，我們在In Focus會介紹這些創意滿滿的設計意念，把傳統的圖書館完全改頭換面。

至於家居設計方面，我們會帶你飛到北約克郡，參觀一座具有400年歷史的大宅Howsham Hall，其前身是一間男校，但現在已擁有奇特而迷人的裝潢。此外，我們在Interiors一欄展示了3款書房及家居辦公室的新穎設計，讓你在家也可打造出滿載趣味和輕鬆感覺的工作空間。