St. Martin’s University installed a 34,000-square-foot colored and stamped concrete courtyard at the abbey on its campus in Lacey.

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has completed this year's Serpentine Pavilion, a secluded courtyard framed by decorative, latticed walls.

A courtyard brings light into the centre of this board-marked concrete house in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, by Anibal Bizzotto and Diego Cherbenco.