Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2010 - 4

Municipalities and Associations

FEPI: GaLaBau and Child in the City Conference

Autumn sees the Federation of the European Play Industry (FEPI) kicking off a full agenda of events and activities, including: the General Assembly; GaLaBau exhibition; and Child in the City Conference.

Planning, Designing, Building

Wheelchair-accessible fitness equipment

Awis-Sport, one of the pioneers in the booming outdoor fitness sector, now also offer two models suitable for wheelchair users: At the “Pull Tower” people with impaired mobility can strengthen their shoulder, neck and arm muscles; the ”Tai Ji Palm Massager“ stimulates blood circulation in the hands and arms.

Planning, Designing, Building

Slacklining – the trendsetting sports in every park

For about two years now slackliners have been increasingly attracting attention in parks and public green spaces.

Planning, Designing, Building

Children discover berries, shrubs and co.

By putting a spherical green piece of children’s play equipment called “Beerenschleuder“ into use on the occasion of the International Biodiversity Day, the “Fränkisches Wunderland” amusement park for the first time supported the “BayernTour Natur” (Bavarian Nature Tour).

Planning, Designing, Building

Roof garden in Berlin two times elected “Green Roof of the Year 2010”

The roof garden of the Wiegmann-Klinik has been elected “Green Roof of the Year 2010“ not just once, but twice!

Planning, Designing, Building

Trampolines magically attract children

Trampolines have become such an integral part of leisure facilities, it is impossible to imagine an attractive leisure facility without them.

Planning, Designing, Building

Sandmaster sand cleaning machines and their varied fields of application

For 25 years now, the Sandmaster company has done business in the field of sand cleaning and has established itself as the market leader.

Planning, Designing, Building

Boundless imagination: news from the Seibel creative team

The brand-new swinging seesaws manufactured by the Seibel Spielplatzgeräte company are called ”Domuntel“ and “Don Carlos“.

Planning, Designing, Building

Merlin’s Magic Castle

For more than 40 years, the Austrian family-owned business Obra-Design has specialized in high-quality play equipment and park equipment.

Planning, Designing, Building

Pieper Holz is the number one choice of TÜV Rheinland

The “Birkenwiese“ kindergarten in Bad Langensalza (Thuringia) celebrated the opening of a new sponsor-funded playground in summer 2009.

Planning, Designing, Building

Gummiwerk Kraiburg Relastec designs cross-generation playgrounds all over the world

Playgrounds that cater to senior citizens are furnished with weatherproof equipment made from high-quality materials.

Planning, Designing, Building

With a lid made from Playtop

To create the lid, Playtop incorporated the Manchester United crest, along with the words ‘OT100 – 100 years of Old Trafford’, which were intricately produced in Playtop’s Safer Surfacing.

Planning, Designing, Building

Birdman of the skies comes to the rescue at Crow Wood

Natural play equipment specialists Timberplay were faced with the giant task of how to install their huge Pyramid Towers at the National Trust’s new Crow Wood Playscape at Lyme Park.

Planning, Designing, Building

Dogford Park, Oldham

With a brief to provide exciting and challenging play and exercise facilities for a particularly discerning age group - the 8 to 13 year olds – Wicksteed Playscapes has transformed Oldham’s Dogford Park into something very special.

Planning, Designing, Building

Playdale produce "first class" Playbuilder site

Princess Diana Park in Banbury has been given a £150,000 makeover by Playdale
Playgrounds.

Planning, Designing, Building

Sutcliffe Play launches Bluetooth Pod Shelter

Sutcliffe Play is launching an innovative teenage Pod Shelter developed following extensive consultation with a local authority and children in secondary schools.

Planning, Designing, Building

Hally-Gally Hip- Hop series

New product launch: The rotating and balancing element located below is equipped with a elliptical-shaped base plate made of glass bead-blasted aluminium and combined with various stainless steel play systems.

Municipalities and Associations

Communal reform

A recent report claiming that administrative municipalities need a population of at least 13,000 – 15,000 if they are to be viable over the long term has reinvigorated the jaded debate on communal reform in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Municipalities and Associations

Better City, Better Life

In the German Pavilion at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, Germany has taken the opportunity to showcase its multifaceted and enterprising policies and presents itself as a nation that is future-orientated and has a taste for innovation but which, at the same time, knows how to value its roots and its heritage.

Coverstory

Green spaces for the general public

Interview with Hanns-Jürgen Redeker, President of the German Association for Garden, Landscaping and Sport Facilities (Bundesverbandes Garten-, Land-schafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V., BGL) regarding the topic “Greenery”.

Planning, Designing, Building

More green spaces mean improved quality of life

The city of the future will be green!
In the autumn of 2009, major backing was provided to the green town movement when regional government head Jürgen Büssow ruled that the ‘Die Grüne Stadt’ foundation based in Düsseldorf was to be incorporated under German Civil Law, giving the organisation recognised charitable status.

Planning, Designing, Building

Competition for the ‘greenest’ playground

The panel of judges for the ‘Green Playground’ competition met in the premises of the ‘Die Grüne Stadt’ foundation in Düsseldorf on 24 and 25 June 2010

Planning, Designing, Building

Unique Park Care in Vienna

By Ronny Wolf, Managing Director IFEP.
The “Parkbetreuung” in Vienna is a leisure time offer for children and teenagers which is unique throughout Europe.

Planning, Designing, Building

Woodland playground where seesaw and swings are things of the past

The 2010 State Horticultural Show in Hemer is an attraction for young and old. But it is the various playground facilities that exert a particular spell on the younger visitors.

Planning, Designing, Building

A woodland playground with a real ‘kick’

“Look – Learn – Join in”: outdoor recreational activities for young and old are the theme of the Fourth Hessen State Horticultural Show, being held this year in Bad Nauheim.

Planning, Designing, Building

“Green Pearl” for the town

A friendly dragon protects Großburgwedel.

Planning, Designing, Building

Exercise for everyone in a green landscape

The German town of Waiblingen makes use of a banked up terraced wall system, originally built as a noise protection system, for a generation-spanning exercise programme in the fresh air.

Planning, Designing, Building

Kulmbach invests in green spaces and playgrounds

Play is not just for children. Open-air exercise facilities have thus been created in public green spaces throughout Germany that - as ‘multigenerational playgrounds’ - have their attractions for young and old.

Planning, Designing, Building

The Importance of Trees

Known for its horticultural attractions Kew’s Royal Botanical Garden has a fresh and exciting addition in its midst in the form of a brand new eibe children’s play area; TreeHouse Towers.

Planning, Designing, Building

“De Holle Poarten”, a wilderness in Holland

In developing the designs, the Jürgen Bergmann Creative Wood Design has quite deliberately avoided installing a “playground” but has built it into the existing, extraordinarily exciting “Wilderness” as if it always belonged here.

Planning, Designing, Building

On the future of outdoor play

by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Milchert, Dean of Studies at the Department of Agricultural Architecture, deputy dean, deputy spokesman for landscape planning courses (University of Osnabrück).

Events

PlayFair 2010

The UK’s national playground and safety surface event PlayFair took place at the end of June at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry. Supported by the Association of Play Industries, this two day trade event has been hailed as the best to date.

Events

International trade fair for the design, construction and maintenance of green spaces

GaLaBau is back again in 2010. A visit to the exhibition in Nürnberg from 15–18 September is a firm entry in the diaries of experts in the green sector. Landscape gardeners, landscape architects and decision-makers from local authority parks departments source information on new products and trends at the four-day international Trade Fair for Urban Green and Open Spaces, which takes place every two years.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

More than just a synthetic turf pitch

by Markus Illgas, Alfred Ulenberg & Partner (landscape architects AKNW/bdla).
Project report about the development scheme for the sport facilities Hegestrasse in Gladbeck, Germany:

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010

Are you looking at the option of artificial turf? Are you confused with all the aspects and potential options? Do you want to find out the facts on technical, sports participation, community development, financials, medical, player development, best practice, standards and competition regulations?

Sports & Leisure Facilities

New light athletic projects in the USA

Polytan has completed several prestige projects in the USA – the leading nation for light athletics. Polytan installed top quality running tracks at Texas University for the “Youth Olympic Selection Trials”, at the University of Tennessee for the “South Eastern Conference Championships” and finally, at the University of Indiana for the “Big Ten Conference” meeting.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Sports field renovation in Ayuntamiento de Tres Cantos in Madrid, Spain

In the community of Ayuntamiento de Tres Cantos in Madrid, renovation of a small sports field was published for tenders in a public bid.