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… Read more »
Blog Category: What’s New
Sustainability and Custom Playground Design Highlights Goric’s New Catalog
Play is essential to our physical and mental health at all stages of life. For children, playgrounds are an integral part of their early development. Physical, emotional, social, and imaginative… Read more »
Our ASLA Contest Is Virtual This Year
Have you seen the crazy route Tom Mroz is taking to this year’s ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture? By the time he arrives in Nashville for the start of the… Read more »
STREAMS Interactive: a Case for Child-Powered Water Play
If you’ve ever had to tear your mud-covered child away from a puddle or sopped up the aftermath of a particularly active bath session, then you know how irresistible water… Read more »
Announcing Goric’s New President
This week we announced that Laura Guscott has been named president of the company. As Goric’s CEO, Laura has led the day to day operations since 2012. Now, with her… Read more »
Play Everywhere Is Turning Sidewalks and Streets Into Playgrounds
Long before the coronavirus shut down parks and playgrounds, kids were hijacking streets and sidewalks and appropriating vacant lots to create their own play areas. They jumped rope, chalked hopscotch… Read more »
Games to Play With Others and Still Stay Safe
50 years ago, a ping pong tournament connected China to the world. Today, the table top tennis game is doing the same for families and neighbors. Social distancing may have… Read more »
A Vision for Elder Playgrounds
Note: This is the first of three articles about play and playgrounds for seniors. Links to the series are at the end of this article. ∼∼∼∼∼ Our static moment of… Read more »
What You Should Know About Playgrounds and COVID-19
Note: Post updated July 6, 2020 As the nation begins to reopen, parents are understandably concerned about the risks to their children of contracting COVID-19 in parks and playgrounds. It’s… Read more »
Designer Spotlight: Teri Hendy on the Safety Standards that Transformed U.S. Playgrounds
Peruse the entry for Teri Hendy in the Play and Playground Encyclopedia and try not to be impressed. The Cincinnati-based design and safety consultant has advised the playground industry for… Read more »
Four & One Landscape Architecture Wins Crazy Maze!
Professionals attend the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture for all sorts of reasons. But Christie Passler and Tara Klein, the co-founders of the Houston-based firm 4&1, arrived at this year’s… Read more »
Curvy Blocks Unite Young and Old
In February, we profiled Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik, founders of an emerging multidisciplinary architecture practice whose arresting play structures reconsider the form and context of traditional playground elements. Winners… Read more »
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