Kinderspace: Architecture for Children’s Development

Dezeen Competitions: Buildner’s latest competition calls for designers to propose a kindergarten that promotes wellbeing and creativity.

Participants are asked to select a site within their home countries and inspire new approaches to educational architecture.

Organiser: Buildner
Competition: Kinderspace: Architecture for Children’s Development, edition 3
Judges: to be announced
Registration deadline: 26 November 2025
Submission deadline: 19 January 2026
Winner announcement: 17 March 2026
Prizes: the first prize is €5,000, the second prize is €2,500, third prize is €1,000. Prizes also include a Buildner Student Award at €1,000, a Buildner Sustainability Award at €500 and six honourable mentions and certificates

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Competition overview

Buildner has announced the launch of the third Kinderspace: Architecture for Children’s Development competition – an innovative architectural challenge focused on redefining early childhood education environments.This competition invites architects, designers and visionaries to create kindergarten spaces that foster the growth, creativity and wellbeing of the next generation of young learners.

The Kinderspace competition encourages participants to integrate spaces that stimulate learning through interaction with both built and natural environments. By offering the flexibility to select a site within their home country, this challenge opens the door for designs that can enrich local communities and inspire new approaches to educational architecture.

Eligibility and judging criteria

The competition is open to all. No professional qualifications are required.

Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams of up to four people.

All information submitted by participants must be in English. The full entry requirements are detailed on Buildner’s website.

How to enter

All submissions must be uploaded via the upload panel.

Participants are required to upload four A2 landscape-oriented presentation boards with sketches, renderings, plans, sections, elevations, diagrammes and/or other presentation tools to explain their proposal.

– No video files are accepted
– All information provided in writing must be in English
– Access information and instructions on how to upload the presentation board will be issued to participants via email immediately after successful registration
– Presentation boards must not indicate any information related to an individual’s/team’s identity

Submission deadlines

All participants must register for submission by 26 November 2025. The closing date for submissions is 19 January 2026.

Winners will be announced on 17 March 2026.

About Buildner

Buildner publishes international architecture competitions, providing a platform for designers and architects to showcase their work and shape the future of the built environment.

For over ten years, the platform has published more than 140 competitions and had over 400 guest jury members.

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