Bubbletecture: Japanese nursery design

What does your child's kindergarten building look like? Chances are that, like ours, its just a couple of rooms in another, larger, building, or, if purpose-built, it's nothing you'd particularly notice, architecturally speaking.

And yet,particularly when you think of those kids who attend nursery full-time, it would make sense to shape the building around their needs. If you were given time to sit down and design specifically for children, wouldn't you introduce a note of playfulness? Rather than narrow their views to existing shapes of rectangle boxes, wouldn't it be nice to show them that anything is possible?

That seems to be the thinking behind the construction of the Maihara Kindergarten, designed by Japanese architect Shuhei Endo, and winner of the Architecture and Design for Young Children international award. An example of his so-called 'bubbletecture', the design incorporates a flexible number of spaces that echo nature.

I can only find one photo of its exterior (below), and none of its interior, so I'd be very interested if anyone can point me towards more information. Meanwhile, expect me to be down at our local nursery trying to convince them to break a few of those rigid, rectangular lines...