The oval-shaped roof deck of this playful Tokyo kindergarten allows children to play and run endless laps around it – a feature that has just won it the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. More about Tokyo kindergarten by Tezuka Architects lets children run free on the roof
The newest Dezeen Pinterest board is filled with eye-catching playgrounds from around the world, including Jaime Hayón's huge animal-shaped play equipment, Assemble's brutalist playground and architectural play equipment that encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Artist Camille Walala has used her signature colourful style to create a maze inside a southeast London gallery, imagined as a playground where visitors can "unleash their inner child". More about Camille Walala creates colourful labyrinth inside London's Now Gallery
Fashion label Marni has designed a sandy playground for Milan design week that's filled with brightly coloured furniture and toys made using traditional weaving. More about Marni reinterprets childhood toys for colourful Playland installation
We need to stop concentrating our energies on hazard-proofing playgrounds, and worry instead about how our buildings and environments could be better suited to children, says Phineas Harper in this Opinion column. More about "Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
Intersecting wood-clad volumes create a playground for children in a Massachusetts suburb to scurry through, clamber over and zip-wire from. More about Matter Design's architectural play equipment encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly
Landscape architecture firm West 8 has added rolling hills with playgrounds and art installations across Governors Island in New York harbour (+ slideshow). More about West 8 creates artificial hills on New York's Governors Island
Children can crawl into the rear end of a wooden pig when visiting this playground installation by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. More about Jaime Hayón installs Tiovivo animal-shaped play equipment at Atlanta museum
Korean firm BUS Architecture's Undefined Playground unfolds to transform crowded city space into a public sports facility for football, tennis, basketball or Frisbee (+ slideshow). More about BUS Architecture designs modular play facility for cities with limited space
To provide children at this primary school with more room to play, London designer Asif Khan has created a stilted structure that stands two metres above the playground (+ slideshow). More about Asif Khan adds elevated wooden play area to east London primary school
To allow parents more time in bed, Russian architecture studio Ruetemple has added a play area above the master bedroom at this summer house to keep the children occupied (+ slideshow). More about Ruetemple adds children's playhouse to bedroom in Russian summer house
Architects Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski have built a slatted wooden structure around an old pine tree to update a courtyard space at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (+ slideshow). More about Treehouse installed in Israel Museum playground by Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski
Malaysian architect Eleena Jamil has built a bamboo pavilion in Kuala Lumpur's botanical gardens, featuring tree-like columns and a floor made up of 31 elevated platforms (+ slideshow). More about Bamboo playhouse by Eleena Jamil built on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur's botanical gardens
Dutch Design Week 2015: French designer Capucine Diancourt's series of unconventional playground equipment includes non-fixed rocking items that challenge children to keep their balance. More about Precarious playground structures by Capucine Diancourt rely on users' balance
Thin sheets of brightly painted steel have been folded to create this origami-inspired canopy, designed to shelter a school playground in an Andalusian village from the sun and rain (+ slideshow). More about Julio Barreno Gutiérrez creates a folded-steel shelter for a school playground
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More about Carsten Höller transforms London's South Bank into a playground
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More about Assemble's Brutalist Playground is a climbable landscape of ice-cream-coloured shapes
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner-nominated architecture studio Assemble has revealed plans to fill a gallery in the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects with a spongy Brutalist-inspired landscape. More about Assemble to fill RIBA gallery with Brutalist Playground
Perforated metal panels create a semi-opaque surface around this elevated playground structure in Bordeaux, which contains slides, climbing nets and a trampoline (+ slideshow). More about BASE adds a metal-clad playpark to a Bordeaux housing estate
World Architecture Festival 2014: a village library in China with a roof that doubles as a playground has been selected for the inaugural Small Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival. More about Small Project of the Year 2014 award goes to a community library with a rooftop playground