Designing for kids is certainly not child?s play. Whilst the design process is undertaken by adults, the end users are often children, such is the case in kindergarten, schools, and parks. Architects have a responsibility, therefore, to ensure that the built environment offers children the chance to play, explore, and learn in physical space, even in a digital age. With that in mind, here are 18 cool spaces designed especially for children ? environments which may perhaps inspire the Fosters, Hadids, and Le Corbusiers of tomorrow.

Designing for kids is certainly not child?s play. Whilst the design process is undertaken by adults, the end users are often children, such is the case in kindergarten, schools, and parks. Architects have a responsibility, therefore, to ensure that the built environment offers children the chance to play, explore, and learn in physical space, even in a digital age. With that in mind, here are 18 cool spaces designed especially for children ? environments which may perhaps inspire the Fosters, Hadids, and Le Corbusiers of tomorrow.The Youth Wing for Art Education Entrance Courtyard / Ifat Finkelman + Deborah Warschawski
© Amit Geron

Brutalist Playground / Assemble

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The Family Playground / HAO Design

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OB Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

© Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue

Play Landscape be-MINE / Carve + OMGEVING

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