Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2017 - 2

Playground Report

Lueders Park`N`Play in Copenhagen, Denmark

Since late summer of last year, the new bright red playground on the similarly coloured 'Park 'N' Play' building has provided visitors with stunning views over Copenhagen's habour district....

Parks & Leisure Facilities

A concrete landscape that conjures smiles on faces

The Takufeld BMX bike park: ramps, curbs, ledges and more around the 'salad bowl' in Cologne.

Playground Report

Thematic playground modelled on a historical example

Recently the City of Plettenberg inaugurated the "Plettenberger Kleinbahn" (former local railway of Plettenberg) for children, a thematic playground modelled on the historical cab-forward steam engine.

Playground Report

A dream comes true ‐ a playground in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg

Dreams transport us into other worlds and allow us to escape the everyday. Perhaps what we are doing when we dream is forge plans for the future. But it is not often that the opportunity to make a dream come true is offered - although in this case...

Playground Report

A miniature wooden play landscape concealed among prefabricated houses

A playground with a river-based theme - from mountain stream to lake - in the south of Dresden

Science

Kindergartens - flexible movement areas for girls and boys

Three girls are shouting: "We are going for a ride!" while they are already galloping into the bushes. In the meantime two boys and one girl who are holding each other's hands come running out of the shrubs of the west side. Two of them...

Playground Report

The Dominoes project

Theleisureway was fortunate enough to be invited by our client in Alcobendas, Madrid, to bring our experience and know-how to the table with the objective of creating a vertical play area for children.

Municipalities and Associations

Power to the children!?

The Commission for the Promotion of Children’s Interests (“KiKo”) exists since 1988. It is a subcommittee of the Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens...

Planning, Designing, Building

A city in movement – strategic approaches for the development of a sport and exercise-friendly life environment

A major-sized sport club with more than 5000 members and located in the Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany, has opened its doors to non-members and created an attractive motoric and exercise course without one cent of subsidy from...

Playground Report

"Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen und dem tiefen, weiten Meer…."

Hardly anyone who grew up in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s can fail to recognise the words above - "An island with two mountains in the deep, wide sea...".They are...

Fitness & Urban Sports

Climbing as in the Palatine Forest

A challenge for everyone – alla hopp (alley oop!) in Deidesheim

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Stadium Hemsbach – A new sports landscape with an artificial turf pitch is being created

The sports facilities at Hemsbach, Germany, were originally a natural grass pitch with a cinder circumference running track, clay and grass surfaces as well as a further clay pitch and a full size natural grass pitch. A section...

Sports & Leisure Facilities

FV Steinmauern sets itself apart from competitors with a cork filling

New artificial turf pitch convinces with optimal ball play and rolling behaviour