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Children and Architecture

A Joan Miró inspired bookstore

A Joan Miró inspired bookstore

Panorama Design Group brings an imaginative world to life for knowledge hunting in a kids’ bookstore in Chengdu – and Joan Miró was the source of inspiration.

Healthy horizons: Perth Children’s Hospital

Healthy horizons: Perth Children’s Hospital

Frightening or fascinating? Perth Children’s Hospital takes the nightmare out of hospital visits, inviting curiosity and play into its life-changing spaces.

Play spaces to inspire the kid in all of us

Play spaces to inspire the kid in all of us

Bringing the scale down to their level while doing away with the typical clash of colours – this collection of children’s play spaces show what the future of designing for kids looks like.

A futuristic library upgrade = INDE.Awards gold

A futuristic library upgrade = INDE.Awards gold

As the 2019 INDE.Awards entries get ready to close, we take a look back at a colourful and futuristic library refurbishment that received an Honourable Mention for The Learning Space at the 2018 INDE.Awards.

Playing With Shapes: Elevating a Children’s Library

Playing With Shapes: Elevating a Children’s Library

How do spaces for children differ from spaces for adults? Muxin Studio creates a cosy children’s library in Shanghai where fused spaces are comfortably scaled for little ones and choreographed to suit learning and play, introverted and extroverted activities.

Can We Be Kids, Again? NUBO Is A New Design-led Concept For Child’s Play

Can We Be Kids, Again? NUBO Is A New Design-led Concept For Child’s Play

Designed by Hong Kong-based Pal Design in collaboration with Sydney’s FROST* Collective, the creative team behind this project have gone above and beyond the humble ball pit.

Why we Should Teach Kids to be Architects

Why we Should Teach Kids to be Architects

Let’s raise the next generation to be smarter than us.