Playscapes’ New Year’s Countdown
Looking back, looking forward and feeling thankful… Top 10s of slides, swings, hills, everything…coming in January! 9k in additional web development fees (groan); it’s been a battle since the launch...
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New Year, New Yorker: The Playground Covers
New Yorker covers featuring playgrounds from 1931 to 2010 neatly convey some of the changes in play spaces over time…I wonder when they’ll feature a natural playscape? [thanks Sarah!] The post New...
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Things I’d like to see on the playground… …climbable sculpture by Erwin Hauer. This is Jerusalem Tower. The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts: Playscape Inspiration from Anthony Caro A...
View ArticlePlayground Events at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA
SATURDAYS, JANUARY 18–FEBRUARY 8 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. TEEN WORKSHOP Architecture 101: Playgrounds and Public Spaces $100 ($85 members); Includes sketchbook and all materials. To register, call...
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Typographic Play Sculpture, Vollaerswzart, Oldenzaal Netherlands, 2009
“Typographic garden commissioned by the Thij College in Oldenzaal. Nine objects covered in artificial grass are used as outdoor furniture for the school. It serves as an engaging space for secondary...
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I like the logs leaning against the rock wall of this natural-ish playground in Breton Woods, New Hampshire…interesting way to add extra climbability. The post appeared first on Playscapes. Related...
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The Swing at the End of the World, Baños, Ecuador
The Swing at the End of the World rewards hikers that make it to La Casa del Árbol (The Treehouse), at an elevation of 2,660 meters. Risky enough for you? [found at likecool.com] The post The Swing...
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Watching, Hossein Zare, 2012
And follow that with the surrealist Watching, by Hossein Zare. [available for purchase at 500px.com] The post Watching, Hossein Zare, 2012 appeared first on Playscapes. Related posts:...
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“Fast-track” trampoline, Salto, Nikola-Lenivets Russia, 2012
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time…It gives the user a different experience of moving and perceiving the environment.” Salto...
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Sidewalk Trampolines, Copenhagen Denmark
Sidewalk trampolines in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by kluke, via panoramio. See also the previously posted Soft City project, by Raum. The post Sidewalk Trampolines, Copenhagen Denmark appeared first...
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Active Benches, Valby City Garden Copenhagen Denmark, 1:1 Landskab, 2013
I love these ‘active benches’ installed by 1:1 Landskab as part of the new Valby City Garden in Copenhagen. Relevant to my “Are we entering a post-playground era?” question, it has playful elements,...
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Charlotte Ammundsens Play Plaza, Copenhagen Denmark, 1:1 Landskab, 2008
1:1 Landskab are also responsible for the similarly faceted Charlotte Ammundsens Plaza, also in Copenhagen. From their site: “If you walk across the square in front of Kulturhuset Indre on a quiet...
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Colorful Skate Ramp, Palais de Tokyo, Ulla von Brandenburg, 2013
I’m inspired by Ulla von Brandenburg‘s use of color in this temporary installation entitled Death of a King at the Palais de Tokyo. It is also a playable skate ramp. When playscapes use color, they...
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Brick Courtyard Carpet, Classensgade Copenhagen Denmark, 1:1 Landkab
And one more from 1:1 Landskab…I’d love to see their ‘carpet’, interpreted in different colored bricks, on the playground. If you’re making a brick path or plaza, why not make it a carpet? The...
View ArticleDIY Piano Stairs
Most piano stairs or foot chimes rely on pressure, but these function by using a light based trip-wire. Full DIY at instructables (knowledge of Arduino and Raspberry Pi required). Just, you know,...
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A Treed House of Play (from scraps!), Manzo Architects, Missouri Botanical...
Treehouses in botanical gardens typically, and appropriately, defer to the tree; refusing to damage it with traditional elevated designs. So Manzo Architects of St. Louis designed instead a “Treed...
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Swings Should be Arbors
So I’m working on an article about ‘accessible’ playgrounds in which this site, the Rusk Children’s PlayGarden for Interactive Therapeutic Play, figures. Ahead of its time with hill slides and...
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Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Harmonic Motion / Rete dei draghi, Museo d’Arte...
Toshiko‘s latest installation is at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art. “ Her sculptures are places rather than objects…” You can visit until December 2014. I never get tired of these. [source:...
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Net playground for the Guggenheim atrium (Proposed), JDS, 2010
And I still wait in hope that the proposal of a giant net playground for the Guggenheim’s atrium will someday be realized… [proposed by JDS in 2010] The post Net playground for the Guggenheim...
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Woods of Net Section Drawings, Tezuka Architects
For those of you professional types that like to see the drawings, there are some sections of the support structure by Tezuka Architects for the wooden nest that surrounds Toshiko’s Woods of Net,...
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