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Blaxland Riverside Park benefits from a series of sweeping views that capture forest, field, and sky. The park design features big earthworks, a tree...
Blaxland Riverside Park
This school playground is aimed at young children, offering an exciting environment with plenty of sensory stimulation packed into a very small space....
Cow Hollow School
This public precinct project by ASPECT Studios is very large in scale, at 15,000 square meters. Included in the precinct is a new urban play space,...
Darling Quarter
Carve was asked by the municipality of the Hague to design an integrated play facility that eliminated the difference in play between children with...
Escamp
Garden City Play Environment is a flowing space that promotes social interaction and healthy challenges for kids. Organic elements such as cedar logs,...
Garden City Play Environment
Stavanger is the base for Norway’s burgeoning oil industry, and home to a museum all about oil. When they were commissioned to develop a new park on...
Geopark
This playground was designed and built on a tight budget but makes no sacrifices in creativity and fun play elements. All of the wood elements are...
Grimston Park Playground
Using the three existing landscape types in the park, plancontext created three “parks within a park.” These are: the Lake Park, the Forest Park,...
Loops
The Sculptural Playground is located in a formerly derelict area overlooking the historic centre of Wiesbaden in Germany. The design of the playground...
Sculptural Playground
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Garden City Play Environment is a flowing space that promotes social interaction and healthy challenges for kids. Organic elements such as cedar logs,...
