Not sure where this playground is located, but it’s simply amazing!
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Playing with Elephants
3 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsCommunity Rainbow Slide
2 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsDanish Playground Designed by Graffiti Artist
CEBRA Architects tapped graffiti artist HuskMitNavn to design this fantastic playground for the new Design Kindergarten in Denmark. The school follows a relatively new model for Danish early education where knowledge is acquired through play rather than formal lessons. Bravo!
1 Comment | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsThe Rainbow House, London
From the architect, Ab Rogers Design:
“The Rainbow House is a magical oasis on a busy road filed with people and noise. When you step through its front door, you enter a parallel universe of fun, colour, movement and sensuality, leaving the ordinary world far behind.
The house is a living artwork in which every corner offers a unique and magical discovery. In the master bedroom, a circular bed rotates into position so you can look out any window. A trap door in the floor pops open to reveal a slide that zips you down to the living room below, where an oversized sofa creates a 12 x 8 metre soft piazza for playing, sleeping and living.
These surprising and disparate elements unite into one composition around a central spiral staircase. This bespoke fibreglass and steel fabrication passes through the full spectrum of the rainbow as it rises through the house. At each storey, its hue spreads out and influences the colour of that floor, creating a visual rhythm on a vertical axis. Sun pours down through skylights at the very top of the house, drenching the staircase in light and bringing it to life.”
Sounds like fun!
A video tour of the house is available on Ab Rogers Design website.
10 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsMelis Stokepark
Located in the Hague, Netherlands, Carve designed this park for children with disabilities.
From their website:
“Because at first glance no ‘special’ features are designed, the distinction between abled and disabled children fades. The outside of the object is a wooden climbing wall with hundreds of climbing holds. One can climb to the undulating path above. This path creates an inner area containing a sandpit and different play objects.”
6 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsOpen-Air Kindergarten
An open-air kindergarten in Takarazuka, Japan, designed in 1992 by Katsuhiro Miyamoto. So cool!
9 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsRecycled Playground
Rather than designing first and finding materials later, the partners at Netherlands-based 2012 Architects look for materials locally that can be reused and then design with those materials in mind. The Wikado playground, for example, makes use of discarded windmill wings.
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6 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsTokyo Baby Cafe
The Tokyo Baby Cafe was designed by Nendo to be enjoyed by two very different users: parents and their small children. The interior plays on this difference in scale. The underside of the tables, where the eyes of parents don’t reach. have pictures of baby animals for the children to enjoy.
Fully stocked with picture books and toys, the cafe includes a playroom, private rooms and separate spaces for nursing and changing diapers. The wide aisles are designed to accommodate strollers and the light switches and door handles are placed safely out of reach of the children.
12 Comments | Categories: Places + PlaygroundsPop-Up Table
Created by Dutch designers Carmela Bogman and Rogier Martens, the pop-up table can be hidden in the ground for more playground space or raised to cofigure a bench, a stage or a lounge area. Located in the city of Ultrect, the Netherlands.
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