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Make Aldo Leopold’s Bench for your Natural Playscape
As you make your bench, with kid-power of course, everyone can learn about Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) who founded the field of Wildlife Ecology, was instrumental in establishing the first official...
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Return Journey, Randy Walker, Minneapolis, 2007
According to Forecast Public Art, Return Journey ”started out as a community-initiated project to help a neighborhood keep a cherished icon and turn it into a landmark.” Residents had fond memories of...
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Children Playing (various artists)
Don’t miss the wonderful images of child’s play around the world over at boredpanda..this one is from Burkino Faso, image by Òscar Tardío. (thanks, Hans!) The post Children Playing (various artists)...
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Nest Playground, tres birds workshop, Vail Colorado, 2013
tres birds workshop was commissioned to design an innovative playscape for Vail with a dreamy brief: ”Aside from safety standards and guidelines, tres birds was given little direction and a lot of...
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Emporium Roof Slide, San Francisco, 1968
San Francisco’s Emporium department store, built in 1896, featured an assortment of rooftop entertainments from the 1940s through the 1980s. The rooftop slide was installed in 1968. The Emporium...
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Indoor Rooftop Playground, Capwell Department Store, Oakland CA, 1912
A much earlier example is this 1912 indoor rooftop playground, complete with swings, slides, and sandbox, atop the Capwell Department Store in Oakland, which later merged with the Emporium. Perhaps...
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Rooftop Playground, Crescent Department Store, Spokane WA, c. 1910
Another antique rooftop playground…this time at the Crescent Department Store in Spokane, Washington c. 1910. So far this is looking like a West Coast trend, rather than an East Coast one. [source]...
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Rooftop Playground, Farmers’ Trading Company, Auckland, New Zealand, 1929
Clearly I need to stop this and get back to science but just one more…the rooftop playground of the Auckland, New Zealand Farmers’ Trading Company store in 1929. Farmer’s was the first store in New...
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Secret Garden Playscape, Olson Kundig and Do-Ho Suh, Uijeongbu, South Korea,...
The rise of the suburban shopping mall seems to have doomed the department store rooftop playground in the United States but it lives on in Asia, where Alan Maskin of Olson Kundig Architects and...
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Rooftop Playgrounds to combat ‘Teenage Terrorism’, 1957
Before we leave our brief excursion into rooftop playgrounds, take a thoughtful look at the 1957 proposal from Mechanix Illustrated to put baseball diamonds, swimming pools, and boxing rings onto urban...
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Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam’s early crochet works, c. 1970
For TBT, thanks to crochetconcupiscence for unearthing these images of Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam’s early work, as published in 1972 in The Crocheter’s Art, by Del Feldman. You can clearly see the forms...
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Party Aardvark Playground, Florentijn Hofman, Arnhem Netherlands, 2013
This may be the most unusual playground theme ever…a giant climbable aardvark, wearing a golden party hat, constructed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Burger’s Zoo in Arnhem. Dutch artist...
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Bicentennial Children’s Park, Elemental, Santiago Chile, 2012
According to Chilean architecture firm Elemental, Chile has struggled to advance its urban standards, particularly its public space provisions, along with the economic growth it has experienced in the...
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Antique Playground Slide, Hanscom Park, Omaha, Nebraska, c. 1910
An early twentieth century double slide, single stair system. I’d love to see this recreated with the support as a playhouse/climber! See more of the history of Hanscom Park at the Omaha Public...
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Vintage Swing for Fifteen! Bloomsbury, London, c. 1930
TBT Swing for Fifteen! From a delightful set of images of play pre-Health and Safety regs at the Daily Mail. The post Vintage Swing for Fifteen! Bloomsbury, London, c. 1930 appeared first on...
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Neskowin Valley School Playground, Oregon, 1979
A classic self-built seventies playscape at Neskowin Valley School on the Oregon coast c. 1979: tall swings, a climbing platform, concrete sewer pipe and a boat! All in a sandpit. [source] The post...
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Teen Playground, KATOxVictoria, Slangerup Denmark, 2013
In 2013 KATOxVictoria was selected as 1 of 4 young Danish architecture offices tasked with realizing a Danish project that had been proposed by local citizens, and moving from idea to installation in...
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Painting with Skateboards, Matt Reilly/Japanther, 2013
And speaking of play-as-performance…Matt Reilly of the art performance/band Japanther “adds paint to the wheels of his board and skates directly on to his canvas to create large, abstract paintings...
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