Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2010 - 6

Planning, Designing, Building

All aboard at Cambridgeshire adventure playground

Sutcliffe Play is putting the finishing touches to Cambridgeshire’s £1 million adventure playground.

Planning, Designing, Building

Keeping up with the latest trend with Lappset – Parkour, the new trend sport

Parkour is a brand-new movement, which is becoming increasingly popular in Germany. Founded by Frenchman David Belle, Parkour is about moving through the natural or urban environment as quickly and directly as possible.

Planning, Designing, Building

Parkour – the art of movement

Parkour helps develop both physical and mental abilities as well as agility, build a strong personality, promote well-being and helps children and young people to cope better with life.

Planning, Designing, Building

Design Your Own & Win @ www.matta.co.uk

One of the UK’s leading suppliers of playground safety surfacing, Matta Products has launched an exciting new website to showcase its unique range of superior safety surfaces.

Planning, Designing, Building

New Planning Document 2010/11 – green roof services and expert knowledge

Clearly structured and easy to find, there are 10 system solutions and 13 products for (almost) all green roof types and applications.

Planning, Designing, Building

Moonlight Art Collection Unique

None of the one-of-a-kind Moonlight “Unique“ globe lights resembles the other; each one of them is an individual work of art, magnificent in appearance and offers unusual lighting with an incomparable wealth of nuances.

Planning, Designing, Building

Proven roofing systems in a fresh design

The E. Ziegler Metallbearbeitung AG has released a new brochure featuring the roofing systems BWA bausystem and Ziegler Matrix.

Planning, Designing, Building

Kristina Schröder: “Germany is responsible for the rights of children – no ifs, no buts”

Federal Minister for Family Affairs opened the Universal Children’s Day in Berlin on 19 September 2010.

Planning, Designing, Building

Discussions with playground volunteers in Cologne

By becoming sponsors, supporters came to learn, in different ways – for example, through the yuppie mobile (or the “little yuppie”) – about the construction of the Cologne play mobile.

Planning, Designing, Building

More efficient swinging - by Kathrin Wesely

The urban department, Green Areas, is creating a playground expansion plan for the first time and maintains that some of the 88 places are dispensable.

Planning, Designing, Building

7. Osnabruck Convention “Moved Childhood”

The famous Osnabruck convention “Moved Childhood” will take place for the seventh time from 17 – 19 March 2011.

Planning, Designing, Building

The Golden Kid – the prize of the German Youth Aid Organisation 2011

Apply now for the Golden Kid award – the prize for child and youth participation

Planning, Designing, Building

Too much television leads to pain in children

Back, neck and shoulder pain and headaches are the most common complaints.

Planning, Designing, Building

Successful S•O•R participation in the GaLaBau trade fair

Perfect functionality, combined with maximum safety, superior quality and utmost durability: this was the motto under which S•O•R presented its stainless steel outdoor fitness equipment for young and old at the 2010 GaLaBau trade fair in Nuremberg.

Planning, Designing, Building

Corocord Domes – a worldwide success

The company Corocord Raumnetz GmbH is very satisfied with the great acceptance that the new Corocord Domes received around the world.

Planning, Designing, Building

DRK day-care centre “Zwergenhaus” wins Kompan playground equipment

The children and nursery school teachers at the DRK day-care centre “Zwergenhaus” in Güstrow were overjoyed when they received a call from Kompan: the day-care centre has won the “Workbench” play equipment (MSC5408P).

Planning, Designing, Building

Cross-generational meeting place that encourages exercise and social interaction – ActiveParcours at the Mühlkanal

On Monday 11th October 2010 Tilo Eichinger, CEO of eibe Produktion + Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, and Mayor Martin Umscheid of the City of Röttingen officially opened the ActiveParcours at the Mühlkanal in Röttingen much to the delight of the local people.

Planning, Designing, Building

Initiative for people aged 50 years and older: “Vital in Deutschland” (“Fit and active in Germany”)

As of now, the Hamburg-based company playfit, a manufacturer of outdoor fitness equipment, will support the “Vital in Deutschland” (vid) initiative by Deutsche Post.

Planning, Designing, Building

Timberplay create brochure to inspire Leisure Market

Renowned play specialist, Timberplay has created a stunning new brochure developed specifically for the Leisure and Tourist market.

Planning, Designing, Building

Exploring possibilities, not defining limitations

Melis Stokepark, which is located in the Hague, is the latest location to have Playtop installed by Van Vliet, the Dutch Playtop Licensee.

Playground Report

To be used in common and stimulate everyone’s creative instincts

The playground areas at the 2010 Bad Essen State Horticultural Show

Playground Report

Berliner Seilfabrik goes USA

The Berliner Seilfabrik Company, which originates from a factory for the manufacture of elevator ropes founded in Berlin, Germany in 1865, has now opened a new subsidiary in the USA at Greenville, South Carolina and has further strengthened its position in the American market.

Playground Report

Garden festivals give you the edge

Hanover: Expert workshop in a bid to make the future development of garden festivals a success for Lower Saxony’s local authorities.

Playground Report

Storytelling through play

The State Horticultural Show in Aschersleben offers a special attraction to its younger visitors and had invited them to experience the world of German traveller Adam Olearius.

Playground Report

Imaginative play with water

This year, the town of Hemer on the edge of the Sauerland region of West Germany celebrated the “Magic of Transformation”: The NRW Regional Garden Festival 2010 took place on around 23 hectors – some on the grounds of former barracks.

Playground Report

Things that children like – make parents happy

Recently an attractive adventure world for children of all age groups has been awaiting guests in the Hotel Rudolfshof Vitality in Kaprun, Austria.

Playground Report

Exercise on the school playground

Children need space!

Playground Report

The Trend to Golf

SPIEL!GOLF is the registered trademark for small golf courses with synthetic turf greens, made by the Frank Wiese Company in Munich.

Playground Report

Curious creatures in Hamburg Climbing Forest

Since 4 October the Hamburg climbing forest in Volksdorf has boasted a new attraction: Florian, Maren & Lars, from the FlorianMars artist group, spent more than 9 months working on the park’s wooden animal monsters, which invite children to climb, run riot and swing about.

Playground Report

By citizens for citizens

Alternative financing options for exercise courses in public places: Geisenfeld – “Bewegungspark an der Ilm” (an der Ilm Exercise Park).

Playground Report

Multi-sports pitch as an active meeting point

On the 10 September, the Mayor of Oer-Erkenschwick, Achim Menge, together with Mr. Michel Mippendorp (Managing Director of VelopA GmbH) and many major and minor guests, opened the first omni stadium for Germany.

Playground Report

“Wind in the mill”

Reminiscent of the destruction and reconstruction of the old post mill in Krosigk.

Planning, Designing, Building

The Commission for Observing Children’s Needs

An interview with Eckhard Pols, President of the Children’s Commission in the German Bundestag.

Coverstory

Active kids – clever kids: it’s the open space that matters

The “Bewegte Schule” (“School in motion”) also caters for the individual needs of pupils for exercise by offering a wide range of extracurricular activities. For as Prof. Renate Zimmer likes to point out: romping around makes children clever!

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The family-friendly sports field – a flash in the pan or evergreen?

by Dipl.- Sportwiss. Maren Reyer, Institut für Kooperative Planung und Sportentwicklung GbR

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The SportsDome

The renowned sports equipment manufacture Erhard Sport presented its playing field systems, including the SportsDome, a roofed multifunctional ball field, at the German GaLaBau trade fair.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Synthetic turf pitch for football and hockey players in Görlitz, Germany

by Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Carsten Schubert, Bauconzept Planungsgesellschaft mbH.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Innovative adhesives for bonding artificial turf

Conipur 106: Significantly more efficient than conventional products. Much less moisture sensitive. Can also be used under extreme climate conditions.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The blue track in Berlin has a little sister in Jena

After 17 years of use, the old running track in the “Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld” stadium at Jena had reached the end of the road. From now on, a new Regupol synthetic running track, manufactured and installed by the BSW GmbH, will provide the new training facilities for athletes at Jena.