Andrew Burges Architects transforms Sydney warehouse into "mini city" for kids
This Sydney childcare and community centre by Andrew Burges Architects is filled with tiny house-shaped rooms and has a sandpit on its roof. More
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Maple Street School in Brooklyn features warm wood interiors
Lots of wood, soft pastel tones and bright accents are used to make this Brooklyn preschool feel like an "extension of the home". More
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AFKS wraps horseshoe-shaped kindergarten in stripy multicoloured metal cladding
Colourful metal cladding extends across the front of this daycare centre in the Finnish city of Espoo, which encloses a secluded playground to its rear. More
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Hibinosekkei installs micro-house in Japanese kindergarten to encourage independent play
Japanese studio Hibinosekkei has added a small wooden playhouse to a kindergarten in the city of Saga to encourage independent domestic role play. More
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Takashige Yamashita creates nursery with curving timber roof near Mount Fuji
A wavy plywood roof undulates above the glass-walled rooms of this nursery in Japan's Yamanashi prefecture. More
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Shingle-clad school by (Se)arch Architekten is set around a cobbled courtyard
Stuttgart studio (Se)arch Architekten has completed a school and daycare centre in the German town of Tübingen, featuring cedar-shingled facades and a cobbled entrance courtyard. More
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Sharply pitched roofs break up the scale of Kengo Kuma's kindergarten in Saitama
Kengo Kuma & Associates has designed a kindergarten in the Japanese city Saitama with a series of roofs that pitch steeply in opposing directions. More
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Charles Tashima Architecture creates cabinet of curiosities inside school science laboratory
A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. More
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Brown ceramic shingles cover Nomade Architectes' village-inspired nursery near Paris
Earth-coloured ceramic tiles cover the roofs and walls of this nursery located on the outskirts of Paris, which is designed by French studio Nomade Architectes to look like a cluster of buildings. More
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MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall
Chinese studio MAD has draped a "skin" of white asphalt shingles over the wooden structure of an old house in Japan's Aichi Prefecture to create a kindergarten with a curving roofline (+ slideshow). More
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Yasutaka Yoshimura wraps warehouse in tent fabric to create Fukumasu Base kindergarten
Architect Yasutaka Yoshimura has completed a kindergarten on the site of a disused warehouse in Japan, featuring a tent-like structure wrapped in a translucent membrane that recalls the shape of the original building. (+ slideshow). More
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Lipton Plant adds indoor treehouse to Bath House nursery in Hackney
A tree-like structure connects each level of this children's nursery in east London, designed by Lipton Plant Architects to reference the fictional Swiss Family Robinson (+ slideshow). More
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Crossboundaries converts derelict building into kindergarten and play centre
Slides and climbing frames connect brightly coloured playrooms in this kindergarten and play space by Crossboundaries, set within a formerly derelict building in Zhengzhou, China (+ slideshow). More
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Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop's kindergarten is designed as a large set of steps
Tokyo studio Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop created stepped levels inside this nursery in Japan's Chiba Prefecture to form a large, open space across the sloping site (+ slideshow). More
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Kraus Schoenberg's woodland nursery wraps around a small courtyard garden
Roughly cut wooden planks clad classrooms arranged around a central glazed atrium at this nursery, set in a forested suburb of Hamburg, Germany (+ slideshow). More
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Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro's kindergarten features house-shaped reading nooks
Japanese studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro have returned to a kindergarten building in Kanagawa Prefecture they designed 42 years ago, updating it to suit modern teaching styles (+ movie). More
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Flower Kindergarten by Jungmin Nam features curvy classrooms and colourful corridors
Walls with built-in flowerpots and a staircase that functions as a play space both feature at this Seoul kindergarten by local architect Jungmin Nam (+ slideshow). More
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Wavy concrete roof shelters corrugated metal kindergarten by Gabriel Verd in Spain
Black and green letters decorate the corrugated metal cladding of this kindergarten located in southwest Spain by Gabriel Verd Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More
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School dining hall by De Rosee Sa and PMR recreates Fantastic Mr Fox's underground village
A rainbow-coloured facade shaped like a row of houses fronts this school dining hall in southeast England, designed by UK studios De Rosee Sa and PMR to reference the stories of Roald Dahl (+ slideshow). More
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COBE's Frederiksvej Kindergarten is based on children's drawings
Each of the small house-like volumes that make up this Copenhagen kindergarten were designed by Danish firm COBE to look like caricatures of homes with peaked roofs as drawn by children (+ slideshow). More