Tag Kindergartens

09-07-2021

A new garden for Casa Coccapani thanks to the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group

On June 22, the new garden of the Casa Coccapani nursery school was inaugurated. The structure’s existing green space was significantly redeveloped thanks to the programme promoted by the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group, in collaboration with the Municipality of Fiorano Modenese. The project of ideas that creatively transformed the existing green space into a "planetary garden" was conceived by architect Bruna Sigillo, winner of "Next Landmark 2020", the international contest promoted by the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group and by the Floornature architecture portal.

02-07-2021

The winners of the Italian Architecture Award and T Young Claudio De Albertis Award

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo’s LCM 2018 / CASA-ASILO project (Mazzarone, Catania, 2018) and Simona Della Rocca of BDR bureau’s Enrico Fermi School project (Turin, 2019) are the winners of this year’s Italian Architecture Award and T Young Claudio De Albertis Award for young Italian architects, respectively. Paolo Portoghesi was unanimously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

18-06-2021

Innauer Matt Architekten: Am Engelbach Kindergarten, Lustenau

In the "Am Engelbach" Kindergarten in Lustenau, Austria, Innauer Matt Architekten has explored the full potential of wood, designing a community architecture capable of standing out as a true landmark in the neighbourhood, but equally of remaining a cosy and welcoming space for young children.

04-06-2021

No Architects: Redevelopment of Malvína nursery in Karlín

In Prague’s Karlín district, No Architects transformed the spaces of a nursery into an immersive project on a child’s scale. The new layout of No Architects’ Malvina kindergarten is based on different functions and times of day for the children and on painstaking attention to detail.

03-03-2021

SeArch: Daycare centre for children on Ötztaler Straße, Stuttgart

Stuttgart-based firm SeArch has been commissioned by the city government to design a children’s daycare centre to replace the old complex in the Untertürkheim neighbourhood, which is no longer functional. For Stefanie and Stephan Eberding, the references are the Art Nouveau style of the adjacent school building and the back garden.

23-02-2021

Vallet de Martinis Architectes two new schools in Noyon, France

Two schools designed by Vallet de Martinis Architectes were completed recently in Noyon: two independent structures inspired by the same design principles, such as choice of brick as the key construction material to echo the two buildings’ urban surroundings.

09-02-2021

MAD Architects YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten, Beijing

MAD Architects’ YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten is an example of intergenerational integration from China. The kindergarten commissioned by the Yuecheng Group is located next to a seniors’ home in Beijing, a situation permitting integration of preschool education with seniors’ care in a surreal structure that inspires children to think, reflect and pursue endless possibilities.

18-08-2020

Alvisi Kirimoto Multi-purpose Civic Center, Childcare Center and Park, Rome

Work has begun in via Grotta Perfetta, Rome on the multi-purpose Civic Center, Library and Childcare Center for 60 children with outside green spaces, designed by Alvisi Kirimoto architects practice. Completion is scheduled for January 2023. The project by Alvisi Kirimoto architects studio won the two-stage international design competition "Meno è Più 4” (Less is More 4) organized by Rome’s municipal authority, in 2007.

29-06-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH COBE

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”, Margaret Mead.