Kindergarten Buildings Designs: Nursery Architecture
Key Modern Educational Architecture Developments. Contemporary Nursery Building Design
post updated 22 September 2026
Kindergarten buildings – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
27 July 2026
HEI Schools Forbach Mauritius
Design: Architects’ Studio Ltd
photo : Eric Lee
HEI Schools Mauritius, designed by Architects Studio, was named the Popular Choice Winner in the Kindergarten category at the 14th Annual Architizer A+Awards.
24 June 2026
Greenterrace Kindergarten, Yunnan province, southwestern China
Architecture Design: Chen Yang and Liwei Guo
images © Chen Yang, Liwei Guo
The Architizer A+Awards is one of the world’s most prominent international awards programmes dedicated to architecture and design. Organised by Architizer, a leading global platform for architecture and the built environment, the A+Awards recognises excellence across architecture, interiors, products, and urban design, celebrating both groundbreaking projects and the architects and designers behind them. The programme honours work that advances the discipline while shaping the way people experience buildings, spaces, and cities around the world.
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23 July 2025
Gyöngyszem Kindergarten, Budapest, Hungary
Design: Archikon Architects
photo : Balázs Danyi
16 July 2025
African Flow School, Soa, near Yaoundé, Cameroon, west Africa
Design: Urbanitree – Architects Vicente Guallart and Daniel Ibáñez
photo © Adrià Goula
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24 May 2022
Kindergarten and Community Center in Tammiste, Tori Parish, Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia
Design: RMJM Milano Architects
image courtesy of architects practice
Kindergarten and Community Center in Tammiste Building
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Kindergarten Architecture Designs
Nursery Architecture News Archive, chronological:
9 Oct 2013
Kindergarten in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, southeast Europe
Design: Rifat Alihodzic, arhing_ar
photo : Luka Bošković
Kindergarten in Bijelo Polje
A diagonal brace, domineering two sides of the cube, was made for a reason and so it became a dominating element of a building structure. It is because the kindergarten, consisting of basement+ground floor+one floor, should be located near the existing building, consisting of more floors (ground floor+4 floors).
3 Sep 2013
Consell Kindergarten, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Architect: RipollTizon Estudio de arquitectura
photo : José Hevia
Consell Kindergarten
This nursery is the extension of the School Complex “Bartomeu Ordines” in Consell, Mallorca. The new building is composed of six classrooms (for children between 3 and 5 years old), one psychomotor classroom and a dining area including kitchen.
24 Jul 2013
Kindergarten in Münster, north Germany
photo Markus Hauschild © BOLLES+WILSON
Kindergarten in Münster
The elegant form of the elliptical nave physically anchors its surrounding neighbourhood. Now deconsecrated the logical investment driven choice would have been for St. Sebastian to disappear. Bravely the 2009 competition jury awarded the first prize to the BOLLES+WILSON scheme which envisaged the characteristic form given a new life and function – a kindergarten framed and shielded by site perimeter housing (2nd construction phase).
1 May 2013
Drulingen Family Crèche, near Strasbourg, eastern France
Design: Fluor Architecture
Drulingen Family Crèche
The family crèche is both a living space where the children thrive and a workplace for the staff. The building is the set for this environment in every aspects and needs but also in its poetical dimension.
14 Jan 2013
Giraffe Childcare Center, Paris, France
Hondelatte Laporte Architectes
Giraffe Childcare Center
The Giraffe childcare center is located in the C1 block of the Seguin Rives de Seine district in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburban area of Paris. The program houses a 60 bed childcare center and 20 bed day nursery.
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Kindergarten buildings interiors images in 2012
added 3 Jul 2012
Fagerborg Kindergarten, Oslo, Norway
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects
Fagerborg Kindergarten
The architects have created a design for a new kindergarten building in central Oslo that offers 2 units for children between 1-3 years old and 2 units for children between 3-6 years old. There are many cultural heritage guidelines to be considered in the project site.
30 May 2012
Ecole Maternelle, Paris, France
Eva Samuel architecte urbaniste et associés
Paris Kindergarten
In the Olympiades quarter, the reconstructed kindergarten building stands out like a gleaming toy amidst the neighbouring towers and blocks. It is part of the re-evaluation of a dense, functional and mixed urban planning project built in the 1960s and 1970s.
27 Feb 2012
Kindergarten Maria Enzersdorf, Vienna, Austria
Arge MAGK illiz
Kindergarten Maria Enzersdorf
Care facility building with primary school, crèche and kindergarten, canteen and multi-purpose hall plus various open spaces.
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Kindergarten Buildings Designs Archive
Junior school design architect, Childcare property photos in 2012
Kindergarten Guntramsdorf, Austria
g.o.y.a – group of young architects
Kindergarten Guntramsdorf
This kindergarten building is located in a grove of striking chestnut trees. Classrooms are organised around a hallway which gives onto a foyer.
Kindergarten Neufeld an der Leitha, Austria
SOLID architecture
Kindergarten Neufeld an der Leitha
The design by SOLID architecture for the new kindergarten in Neufeld an der Leitha emerged as the winning project in an invited architecture competition that sought designs for a new building to house a four-group kindergarten. One requirement of the design competition was that it should be possible to add a further two groups without disrupting activities at the building.
Kindergarten Mavrica, Brežice, Slovenia
Bizjak, Dragišić, Florjanc, Jelkić, Saje
Kindergarten Mavrica Brežice
The new kindergarten building is subordinated to the green exterior space and skillfully designed in a form of a continuous spatial loop which surrounds the entire playground. Uniform concept of the playground that starts with an extensive central atrium on the south of the plot and continues under the tract on the 1st floor to the north part of the building site, assures the feeling of safety and connectivity of the kindergarten’s departments.
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Modern Kindergarten Buildings
We choose key examples of Kindergarten Architecture. We aim to include buildings that are either of good quality or interesting.
e-architect cover completed Kindergarten buildings and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary nursery buildings. We have 2 pages of contemporary Kindergarten Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.
Kindergarten Buildings : news + key projects (this page)
Kindergarten Architecture : A-Z
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Kindergarten Building Designs
Four-Leaf Clover Kindergarten, Slovenia
Ofis Arhitekti
Four-Leaf Clover Kindergarten
The plot of the building is a four-leaf clover from which each leaf represents one department with associated facilities. Entrance leads to the central part with the common areas, which are positioned and distributed in three floors.
Fuji Kindergarten, Japan
Tezuka Architects
Fuji Kindergarten
The brief for the building was extremely simple in content: “we want you to make a Roof House for five hundred kindergarten pupils.” In this design, there are no distinctions between the pupils or colleagues.
Kindergarten Sighartstein, Land Salzburg, Austria
Design: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Kindergarten Sighartstein
The elevated and abstractly stylized “grass” facade of the cubic building brings a certain harmony to the volume as well as an identity and orientation for the kindergarten building. The inner organization follows the logic of use: kindergarten groups have open access to the gardens while the crèche groups are kept safe in the floor above.
Facility for Sensory-impaired children:
Hazelwood School, Glasgow, Scotland
Design: gm+ad architects
photo : Andrew Lee
More Modern Kindergarten Buildings + Nurseries online soon.
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Education Architecture Design
Contemporary Education Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Nursery School Buildings : Designs
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Kindergarten Architecture – Nursery Designs page welcome.