We’re going on a bar hunt. We’re going to find a cool one. The babysitter’s booked. We’re not old! Bestselling authors Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd also happen to...
Completed in 2014 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Images by Mikkel Frost. OUR HOUSE – THE CHILDREN’S HOME OF THE FUTURE Danish architecture studio CEBRA has completed a pioneering project for a new type of 24-hour care...
Cork historian discovers shocking evidence of 1930s trials.
Cebra has completed a project for a 24-hour care centre for marginalized children and teenagers in Kerteminde, Denmark: a tile and wood cladded building that plays with familiar elements and shapes to create a homely environment in a modern building that focuses on the residents’ special needs.
Image 17 of 21 from gallery of Children’s Home / CEBRA. Photograph by CEBRA
A lovely Book Week poster from 1924, designed by Jessie Willcox Smith, who illustrated many children’s books.
The names, ages, and causes of death of all 796 children who died at St. Mary’s Home, from 1925 to 1960.
We are trying out lots of different ways to tell stories, especially visual ways of storytelling that give children the chance to re-enact the story afterwards by themselves if the want to! Here are some of our ideas... Story bags Story stones Felt characters Pass the parcel Creation story mats Using coloured cards Making shapes with cards (The man through the roof) Four Card Stories Acting out with toys (man through the roof) Feeding the 5000 with a popcorn maker 5 minute no-sew peg characters: make your own! Stackable story telling characters Printable parting of the Red Sea storyteller Play dough mats Play Dough Storytelling Freestanding story characters to colour and make
There are stories from history that everyone thinks they know inside and out, but as these photos show there’s always more than one way to look at something or someone. Just because the Queen of England looks stodgy right now doesn’t mean that she wasn’t playful in the 1950s, and even though we think of the Great Depression as being a real drag, there were people who knew how to pass the time in interesting ways.
Three words: The Baby-Sitters Club.
Style icon Marella Agnelli offers a rare look inside her family’s captivating 18th-century retreat
Completed in 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Images by Torben Eskerod, Jens Lindhe. The Children’s Culture House mediates the varying scales of adjacent buildings through extruding and cutting their forms. The joint of the building,...
Designed by CREO ARKITEKTER A/S, JAJA Architects. CREO ARKITEKTER A/S and JAJA architects have won a competition to design a new home for Children with Autism near Hareskoven, one of the large...
I’m back with our Monday’s inspiration for children’s room. I find Spring time so inspiring and this season gives me such a good energy to change things at home. Nature is awake and the botanical trend seems just so perfect to bring also indoor. I wrote already some other post about greenery here: Green Wall. Today I take inspiration form botanical prints and patterns which are such a wonderful motives to adopt in kids deco. Don’t’ you think? It doesn’t need to take a lot of time and costs much. We can put a wallpaper with floral pattern in small part of the room, or poster with floral motives, or get a bedding set and pillows with some floral details. If you have more space and patience, what about creating some real garden with your kids. We just started a little indoor garden with my 5 years old, and he just loves it. Every day he is checking if the little zucchini and broccoli are growing. It’s not only looking great but our kids learn to take care of it and grow little nature in their surrounding. Interesting, especially for the city kids, as mine. I think this is one of the greatest trends happening since a long time….. Thank you for the inspiration / pictures credits : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9+10 -11
Production designer Gavin Bocquet takes AD behind the scenes of Tim Burton’s latest movie
Image 9 of 22 from gallery of Macdonald Road House / Philip Stejskal Architecture. Photograph by Bo Wong
After building the most exciting furniture brand to come out of Scandinavia in a generation, Hem founder Petrus Palmér finds room for his growing family in this 1960s home on the outskirts of Stockholm
Designed in 1953 by Robin Boyd for Victor and Peggy Stone, this modest home in Melbourne’s Eaglemont reflected the progressive attitudes of its owners.
A playful renovation in Melbourne creates a series of gabled structures.
In Colossians 3, Paul is clearly explaining to us how we should live our lives as believers in Jesus Christ. This is a wonderful chapter and worthy of study. He encourages us to seek those
London-based firm Proctor & Shaw has completed a pared-back yet stylish renovation of a 75-square-meter central London flat. The defining feature of ‘Marylebone Apartment’ is...
Graphic images of 19th- century slums are familiar to us today. But what were they really like? Why were they built? And how were they cleared? Jerry White explores the capital’s meanest streets… This article first appeared in the October 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine “Tyndall’s-buildings is a court containing 22 houses… the basement story of nearly all… was filled with fetid refuse, of which it had been the receptacle for years. In some… it seemed scarcely possible that human beings could
Learn about our bodies with these human body activities for kids! All of these ideas are hands-on way to explain the body's systems and functions for kids.
After 53 years, the horrible reality of Ireland’s mothers and babies home.
Viciously beaten by her aristocrat husband. Thrown out of her home. Banned from seeing her own children. Caroline Norton paid a terrible price for an unwise marriage. Yet her courage in daring to seek a divorce 150 years ago unleashed a social revolution that was to change Britain for better... and for worse
If the human imagination can dream it, architects and builders can construct it! From the humble to the extravagant, there is no limit to the uniqueness and creativity of buildings found around the world.
These pictures, taken by Horace Warner 100 years ago in Spitalfields in London’s East End, were used to illustrate the plight of the poorest children in London.
French beauty guru Frédéric Fekkai and his wife, Shirin von Wulffen, restore a romantic villa near his native Aix-en-Provence
The Phoenix-based photographer captures the architect's iconic buildings in their most appealing light
This recently completed private spiritual Buddhist retreat and tea house in the rural Tangshan area in China's northeastern Herbei province, produces perfectly the tranquil environment and reverent atmosphere that the design brief requested.
Prayer has its reasons. Why we pray is important, as is prayer itself. What follows are twelve reasons to pray.
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This drawing by Hans Holbein was not labelled at the time it was created, but a later inscription states ‘M Souch’. This could refer to one of two individuals. If ‘M’ stands for Mary then the sitter is Mary Zouche, daughter of John Zouche of Harringworth. Mary was unhappy at home after her father’s remarriage and she sought a place at court. She eventually became a member of Jane Seymour’s household and received an annuity of £10 for her service. However if ‘M’ stands for ‘Mrs’ then the sitter is probably Anne Gainsford, lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn and the wife of George Zouche of Codnor. The couple shared Anne’s religious views.
Image 24 of 34 from gallery of Ama'r Children's Culture House / Dorte Mandrup. Photograph by Torben Eskerod
