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
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
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
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
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
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
These glowing circular swings have been installed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture to brighten up a patch of Boston parkland and to encourage children to play outside the confines of the playground (+ movie). More
This Copenhagen playground building surrounded by road markings was designed by Danish architects MLRP to provide a place where children can learn about road safety and test skills on-site (+ slideshow). More
Layers of springy nets stretched across an atrium at the centre of this beach house in Thailand by Bangkok studio Onion create a vertical playground that can be used to travel from the top floor to the bottom (+ slideshow). More
Rotterdam-based Studio Makkink & Bey has added an industrial playground with a decorative perimeter fence to a Mecanoo-designed housing complex in Reimerswaal, the Netherlands. More
New York practice Cooper Joseph Studio was inspired by Mexican beach huts to insert four pyramidal chimneys behind the concrete exterior of this playground pavilion in Dallas, Texas (+ slideshow). More
Danish architecture firm BIG has scattered miscellaneous street furniture from 60 different nations across a brightly coloured carpet of grass and rubber at this park in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. More
Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. More
Mulders vandenBerk Architecten of Amsterdam have completed a playground building in a park in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with a Corian façade engraved with images of fairytales from around the world. More
French designer Matali Crasset has designed a series of sculptural outdoor "trees" for a high school in France. More
Solar Shade by Australian designers Buro North educates primary school children about collecting energy from the sun while providing shade in playgrounds. More