Enabling Environments: Architecture - Making Space

A London adventure playground received a commendation in the Making Space international architecture competition and also picked up the Children's Making Space Award.

Held every five years, the competition aims to celebrate architecture and design for children and young people (0-18) and this year attracted submissions from 16 countries, including Finland, Spain and Japan.The overall winner was Norwegian architects TYIN Tegnestue for a community library and residential buildings for orphanages in Thailand (www.tyintegnestue.no).

Erect Architecture was commended for its Kilburn Grange Park Adventure Playground, commissioned by the London Borough of Camden and largely funded under the Government's Play Pathfinder scheme.

Kilburn also won the Children's Making Space Award, which forms part of the awards, and is judged by a panel of Scotland's Children's Parliament. The playground was chosen from the 75 entries because, said the panel, it was 'fun'; it connects users to nature; it connects play and learning; sustainability is an important aspect of the scheme; and it is a project which allows the users to make it their own.