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Depression-Era Car Seat Swing
And reminding us that play can be made from anything, a depression-era image of kids on a swing made from a car or truck bench seat. Sweet. From my files, source unknown, tell me if you know it!...
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The Nuts and Bolts of Playground Construction, Paul Hogan, 1982
“If children want a playground, let them build it themselves.” I’m really pleased to announce another addition to the Playscapes Press family of downloadable vintage playground books! Starting today,...
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Bank of Brazil Playscape, Brasilia, Darlan Rosa, 2008
Thanks to Luciana Mendonça for submitting the playscape at the Cultural Centre of the Bank of Brazil via the Playscapes submission feature! (see the button in the blog’s title bar). It’s a collection...
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Pastello Playscape, National Gallery Melbourne, Mathery Studio, 2014
An installation at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia turned the sedate act of drawing into active, physical play by creating crayons used not just with fingers, but with head,...
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Case Study House Climbing Wall, Bel Air California, Craig Ellwood, 1952
For #TBT, the climbing wall of a 1952-53 house at 1811 Bel Air Road in California. The Case Study houses were a series of modernist prototypes for postwar living, largely constructed around LA between...
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Terra Nova Playscape, Hapa Collaborative & WildPlay, Richmond British...
British Columbia-based LArch and urban design collaborative HAPA and WildPlay have opened a new ‘play experience’ for the city of Richmond, modeled on the landscape types on its arm of the Fraser...
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The changeover from feedburner to Mailchimp should be complete today…note that there is a new sign-up in the sidebar that lets you choose to receive updates weekly or monthly if you’d rather. If you...
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Top Playscapes Posts from 2014
In case you missed them! The top posts from this year’s 186 posts (whew!) , ranked according to total page interactions, are: 1. The sidewalk trampolines of Copenhagen 2. The swing at the end of the...
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#PlaySculptureSaturday: Tarax, Peter Corlett, 1969
You can play on Peter Corlett’s 1969 ferroconcrete bubbles at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park near Melbourne Australia. [img via redbubble] The post #PlaySculptureSaturday: Tarax, Peter...
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Lazona Kawasaki Plaza, Earthscape, Tokyo Japan, 2006
“To walk the streets as if in a movie…where the city is the hero.” That was the goal of the design for the giant Lazona Kawasaki Plaza shopping mall by Japanese landscape firm Earthscape. It includes...
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Play Nets in Caves: Bounce Below, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, 2014
The bouncy caves of Wales have been already been all over the internet, but I’ll post them here too, as a particularly dramatic reminder of how play has the ability to revitalize–to utterly...
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Last few days for the Holiday Book Deal!
So, I forgot to take down the holiday book deal on January 1, as scheduled. By popular demand I’ll leave it up through the end of this week…if you want to take advantage of buy-4-get-1-free vintage...
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#TBT Vintage Aztec Playground, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, c. 1973
“These photos were taken on the last days before this playground was unnecessarily destroyed. My kids enjoyed this more than the new playground that replaced it.” For Throwback Thursday, the sad tale...
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Ishiki by Kan Yasuda in Tokyo Midtown
It’s inspiring to see a sculpture playfully transform the sometimes intimidating architecture of downtown Tokyo. Ishinki, by Kan Yasuda looks like a luminous white gem glowing atop the black stone tile...
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Aztec slide, Dallas Arboreteum and Botanical Garden, Texas
I was intrigued to find, when researching the Lost Aztec Playground of Los Angeles, that there are other Aztecian installations: I like the bright red gloss on this pyramid slide at the Dallas...
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Donne Buck Archive of Play and Playgrounds now at the V&A
Very pleased to receive word that the Donne Buck Archive of Play and Playgrounds, a collection largely about the adventure playground movement in 1960s-1990s Britain, has found a new home at the...
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Block Party, Department of Play, First Night Boston 2014
Here’s your mission: We’ve made contact with extraterrestrial life and they are visiting Earth! Build Boston’s first E.T. resort. Visitors to Boston’s First Night accepted the mission, using pink and...
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Quetzalcoatl, Collette Crutcher, San Francisco, 2006
Another Aztec-inspired playscape is Collette Crutcher’s Quetzalcoatl: one of the most beautiful examples of playground mosaic that I know. The feathered snake of the Aztec twists and turns through a...
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Just a housekeeping note that this week we’ll be adding our Playscapes correspondents’ posts into the email feed so that you get all the posts in one place…hiccups may arise! The post appeared first on...
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O-o pony. First recycling playground in Poland
O-o pony* is Poland’s first recycling playground with safety certificate. The authors – Sara Podwysocka (designer, sculptor, graphic designer) and Maria Ostrowska (designer, jeweler, teacher) as a...
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