Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2012 - 1

Planning, Designing, Building

Award presented to eibe Produktion + Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG

Now the idea is to be entrenched even more firmly in the regions. Lower Franconia is particularly eco-friendly even today: Currently, about 331 companies with more than 52,000 employees are participating in the Environmental Pact there.

Planning, Designing, Building

Risky Play most popular at Cambridgeshire Adventure Playground

Wisbech Adventure Playground was designed and built by play experts Sutcliffe Play, and is one of the 30 adventure playgrounds installed across the country as part of the previous government’s Play Pathfinder scheme.

Planning, Designing, Building

Bernhard Felthaus joins Berliner Seilfabrik

. “I’m delighted about this challenging new assignment, particularly because I’ll be able to take advantage of my experience in the exciting area of rope-climbing structures.”

Planning, Designing, Building

Playdale launch metal multi-use games area

The brand new TM range;

Planning, Designing, Building

US Americans trust in play equipment manufactured in Geeste/Dalum

The playgrounds, which have been designed by the Darmstadt-based Stadtbauplan architectural office, will be built on a 43 hectare area which is currently being developed by the US Army for residential purposes.

Planning, Designing, Building

Europlay NV presented its newest creation ...

This type of themed playground equipment is a sample of what the Europlay product range stands for.

Planning, Designing, Building

Co-operation between Angry Birds and Lappset

As agreed with Rovio, Lappset will manufacture and supply play and activity equipment as well as ready-made activity parks inspired by the Angry Birds characters.

Events

Activity in play

The specialist area PLAYGROUND is firmly anchored in Nuremberg.

Playground Report

A piece of Africa in Dresden

A new giraffe and zebra enclosure has been built at Dresden Zoo. The design was chosen to bring across the animals' origins in a playful way

Coverstory

Playgrounds need committed volunteers

Many areas of public and social life would hardly exist anymore without volunteers. And without committed volunteers, some playgrounds would no longer be what they once were.

Planning, Designing, Building

Koenigsbrunn Comet Tail

This exceptional piece of play equipment shows off to its best advantage on suitable colourful shock-absorbing surfacing and blends harmoniously with its surroundings.

Playground Report

First nationwide educational courses for ‘qualified playground testers’

There is finally a nationwide applicable standard with regard to safety in playgrounds.

Events

Prepare communities for the future

Towns and communities have to strive to remain an attractive proposition for citizens, economy and tourism.

Playground Report

Exercise and mobility in the urban environment 2020

And he keeps a diary in which he records what he encounters when he cycles through large conurbations such as New York, Istanbul and Berlin.

Playground Report

Desert Playground at the Erratic Block Park

Lusatia is a region rich in contrast, which stretches from the south-eastern part of Brandenburg to the east of Saxony: besides nature reserves, there are huge abandoned quarries, which are transformed into new spaces to explore and experience nature within the framework of one of the largest-scale renaturalization processes in Europe.

Playground Report

Now online – The new Lappset MyDesign! Website

With the MyDesign! Service by Lappset, you will strike gold.

Planning, Designing, Building

Jens Zumblick joins SIK Holz

Previously, he was head of marketing for Berliner Seilfabrik GmbH & Co.

Planning, Designing, Building

Current Findings in Child Development and the Role That Playgrounds Play

Thomas R. Müller (Playground@Landscape): First of all – I see that the Kompan company is more active again in 2012!

Planning, Designing, Building

Motion Plan – Plenary Session 2012: Enjoyment – Learning – Playing – Exercise … in public places

Be part of our series of lectures, take part in the organisation of discussions, make new contacts and keep your finger on the pulse of the times!

Planning, Designing, Building

Pieper Holz passes prize money on to children’s project

For the Olsberg-based Pieper Holz wood-processing company it was impossible then to obtain enough wood from forestry offices or the timber trade to cover its own demand.

Planning, Designing, Building

Only clean playgrounds go down well

Of course, waste bins need to be emptied at regular intervals and the play areas have to be cleaned from waste of any kind.

Planning, Designing, Building

Playtop Makes a Splash

Working with landscape company Skælskør Anlægsgartnere and Insemo ApS, the Danish licensee for Playtop wet pour surfacing, the two companies developed a design that consists of sloping hills or ‘goblets’ and water shoots.

Planning, Designing, Building

Timberplay help make Kidzworld a must-play attraction for Cornwall

Kidzworld has been an attraction for several years, but has recently undergone a huge redevelopment program to make it twice the size, and used the services of Timberplay to ensure their play facilities are second to none.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Sustainable construction of sports facilities

In reality, however, sustainability is a combination of ecology, economics and sociology and means nothing less than to maintain these components in a regenerable way over a lasting period of time in order to counteract negative changes.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

“Climate Protection in Sports” wins award

(DOSB PRESS) The “Climate Protection in Sports” initiative of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) is one of the award winners of the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” competition.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

SportsDome fascinates experts

The dream for every a sports facility – and now no longer only a dream, but a feasible concept. This is how the renowned sports equipment manufacturer Erhard Sport presented the concept for the SportsDome at the last sportinfra trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

2nd Kassel Sports Symposium on Timber Structures for Sporting Applications organized by the Landessportbund Hessen e.V. (Hessian Sports Association)

The year 2011 was the International Year of Forests under the patronage of Federal President Christian Wulff.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

GreenFields’ first dual use pitch in India secures National Academy status

The Fr. Agnel Multipurpose School in the Vashi suburb of Mumbai opened in 1982. It has worked hard to ensure that the students have access to good sports facilities as an integral part of their education. The school’s investment in a GreenFields synthetic turf pitch has now been recognised by the AIFF and FIFA who have chosen the school as one of four new residential football academies in India.