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A Vintage Playground Slide Mystery – can you help?
Reader Sarah has also gotten in touch, hoping someone can help her with the history of her vintage wooden slide. She acquired it from an antiques dealer in Venice, CA, and it took up residence first...
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I’m in New York City today (Monday) for some playground meetings; very short notice indeed but I’ll be taking in the new Natural Playground at Prospect Park at 3 pm…if you’re in the area feel free to...
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Donald and Barbara Zucker Natural Exploration Area, Prospect Park Alliance,...
So when I visited the new ‘Natural Exploration’ Area at Prospect Park in Brooklyn I kept thinking about my first posts on this idea of a ‘natural playground’. It was 2008 and I’d only just come...
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Stephen Wise Towers Playground, Constantino Nivola, New York City, 1965
Artist Constantino Nivola sand-cast enormous sculptures for the likes of Olivetti and Yale. And, he made a playground… “The sculptural face of a modern city playground rarely gets more monumental than...
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PopUp Adventure Play Tour, Spring 2014
The nice people at PopUp Adventure Play–responsible for instant, scrap-based playscapes at sites like MoMA and Governor’s Island–are hitting the road, and you can be one of their stops! “Our tour...
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The story of this playground begins with a description of what could be a city park most anywhere: 14 acres, a soccer field, quite a few trees, and a set of wood-and-metal playground equipment that...
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Aldo Blocks and Bloor prints are here!
Just in time for what remains of cyber Monday, I’m pleased to introduce what I hope will be a new holiday tradition here at Playscapes: a set of handcrafted wooden blocks honoring a significant part of...
View ArticlePlayground Risk and Kramer vs. Kramer
When I was in NYC last month, I was honored to be part of a round-table discussion on the topic of “Balancing Creativity and Risk In Playground Design”, courtesy of Jane-Clark Chermayeff and...
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A nice story at HuffPo 2nd-Grader’s Cure For Playground Loneliness: A Buddy Bench The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts: Loop Bench, Jeppe Hein , 2009 Long Benches, Modified Benches by...
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Kagome Sandpit, PPAG Architects, Vienna Austria, 2012
The idea for this wonderful combination of willow weaving and sandpit came when PPAG realized that the Museum Quarter’s request for a temporary summer sand play area would be problematic without some...
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Playscapes has been named one of the Top 10 online resources for Landscape Architects…wow, thanks! The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts: Playscapes blog in Landscape Architecture...
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Double concrete slide, Nishinobusue, Japan
Lovely, possibly mid-century? double concrete slide in Nishinobusue, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. via panoramio. Anyone know more about it? The post Double concrete slide, Nishinobusue, Japan...
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Vintage Elephant Playground Slides, Leipzig and Mecklenberg Germany
In trying to find more information about the Japanese slide, I came across these two vintage elephants, one in Leipzig and one in Mecklenberg. The obvious suitability of an elephant’s trunk for a...
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Academie Lafayette Playground, KEM Studio and Zahner, Kansas City, 2013
Fortunate the school that has Jonathon Kemnitzer, principal of KEM STUDIO, among its parents. His firm developed the design for this unique playground pro bono, making sure that the forms could be...
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Adventure Playspace, Public Workshop and Philly Youth, 2013
Congratulations to Playscapes friend Alex Gilliam and his Building Hero Project for their recent PBS/Edutopia feature. In conjunction with Smith Memorial Playground, the leadership of the Building...
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See also another great vintage elephant slide from reader Ilse, who grew up with a similar slide near her grandmother’s house in the Netherlands. The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts:...
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Ilse also has her own site devoted to vintage playground spring riders…it’s quite comprehensive, with information on manufacturers and loads of photos and even advice on buying and restoring your own...
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Longtime reader Oleg also sent this grittier elephant slide example from Bryansk city, Russian Federation…thanks Oleg and Pavel! The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts: Vintage Elephant...
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Joseph Brown’s Frustrating Playgrounds, 1954
In preparing for our upcoming focus on risk here at Playscapes (in conversation with the great Tim Gill, over at RethinkingChildhood), I’ve been mulling over the question of whether we are as much...
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