"Children's City" Creates Cheerful and Relaxed Atmosphere for Sick Children

Kinderstad (which means "children's city" in Dutch) is an addition to the old VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam, designed by Sponge Architects & Rupali Gupta in cooperation with IOU Architecture.

This was the winning entry of the Young Architects Competition of the Dutch National Board of Architects (BNA) and the penthouse now serves as a visiting area and offers a great space for the parents and their sick children to spend their visiting hours in. Roland Pouw of IOU Architecture says


"I hoped to create a space where young patients can forget for one moment their sickness and where they are in their own dreamland...".