Innovative Designs
Pipelines: A Colorful Art Installation About Conservation
The Dynamic Duo The right partner can often be hard to find…professionally speaking. When searching for the right collaborator there are many options, but there are few who share the same vision, sensibilities, values and approach. When it does happen, it can be like capturing lightning in a bottle….
KRAIBURG: Leading the Way in Sustainability
Today we are giving our readers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to create some of our portfolio-worthy, sustainable, and accessible playscapes. Without the people who help us produce our playground equipment, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do! KRAIBURG Manufactures Sustainable Rubber Solutions that Meet the…
A Place for Play, Artistic Expression and Community in Savannah
DCIM100MEDIADJI_0099.JPG Community-Led Change The term “creative placemaking” might not be part of most people’s everyday vocabulary, but for Erin Wessling, it is an essential component of her work. Erin serves as the founder and creative director of W Projects in Savannah, GA., a full-service marketing agency that also specializes and…
Montreal’s Parc St. Joseph Inspires Play for All Ages
default Valérie Bouré, a landscape architect for the city of Montreal and part of the three-person team behind the design of Parc St. Joseph, is riding high from two recent awards. The space (which features Goric’s dynamic playground equipment) has been recognized for its accessible, inclusive design and also won an…
Celebrating the Positive Side of 2021
Friends – With the end of the year just around the corner and we look back on 2021 it’s tempting to view it through a dark lens. No one can be blamed for seeing 2021 as another year of hardship, when Covid continued to reign over our lives, constricting us…
Goric’s Towering Pyramid Gives Garvies Point a Signature Playground
Arising on the banks of Long Island’s Hempstead Bay, upon what once was an industrial wasteland, is a new neighborhood. Strung along an inlet and linked by a waterfront promenade, the shops, restaurants and play areas of Garvies Point have already become a popular destination for the residents of Glen…
Jump Into Our Wormhole Slide at Area 15
100 miles from Nevada’s mysterious Area 51 is the mystifying Area 15 of Las Vegas. Inside an almost ordinary building of warehouse proportions is a supermarket like no other in the world. At first look, it’s a perfectly normal market, if more colorful and cleanly stocked than where you shop….
Water Play That Lets Kids Be Engineers
There is a new thinking in water play design that has as much in common with the ubiquitous splash park as a neighborhood playground has with an adventure destination. We noted this trend several months ago in discussing the first season of the water play area at Knudsen Park in…
Magical Bridge Is Changing What a Playground Should Be
It was after the birth of her second daughter, developmentally disabled Ava, that Olenka Villarreal discovered how isolating a playground could be. The 34 playgrounds in Palo Alto, California where she lived were all ADA-complaint, but to Villarreal accessibility was not the same as usability. Her quest for a place…
How a Parkour Course Revived an Aging Playground
Sometimes the best playground designs result from tight constraints. Six years ago, students and staff at Amigos School, a pre-K-8 Spanish and English immersion school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, moved into a new home. The former administrative building at 15 Upton Street had good bones and the size to accommodate more…
The 6 Best Sculptural Playgrounds
If the playspaces finding their way to the “best-of” lists of publications such as Business Insider, Mental Floss, and Land 8 are a sign of the future, the days of the humdrum platform-and-beam playground are in short supply. Whether found in Copenhagen, Sydney, or Memphis, the world’s best playgrounds are…
The Shape and Form of Playgrounds
To the curious eye, forms and shapes are everywhere. From turrets and lampshades to clock gears and armadillos, the world is alive with architecture. And it’s reasonable to presume most landscape architects and designers think of playgrounds this way: built or organic works, with a coherent form and structure, and…
