War Games: 12 Kid-Friendly Park & Playground Tanks
Why scrap a decommissioned tank or self-propelled gun when it can easily be re-purposed as playground equipment, asked nobody ever. ALMOST nobody, that is. This pair of colorful ex-Soviet ...
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12 City Slides Turning Urban Settings Into Playgrounds for Adults
Slides actually make a lot of practical sense in urban environments, potentially zooming over busy streets and transferring pedestrians from high ground to low ground faster than an escalator or ...
Magical Monsters & Kid-Size Castles: 12 Epically Imaginative Playgrounds
It’s true that as we get older, we lose most of the rich imagination that had us drawing monsters and telling strange stories as kids, the world seeming less magical with each year that passes. ...
Brutalist Playgrounds: Sharp Surfaces + Unforgiving Drops
The phrase ‘brutalist playground’ kind of sounds like a joke, emphasizing the great potential for injury that would seem inherent to a sharp, harsh play structure where kids are encouraged to ...
Tape Tunnels: Crawl Inside a Human-Sized Spiderweb in Paris
Stretching from one end of the Palais de Tokyo gallery in Paris to the other, these strange translucent tunnels look like human-sized versions of the funnel-shaped webs of grass spiders. Instead ...
Private Playgrounds: 13 Amazingly Fun Houses
If you had your own pirate ship fort, multi-story slide, climbing wall or indoor skate park, would you ever want to leave your house? Some homeowners have turned their residences into private ...
Mirror, Mirror: Playground Pavilion Gets Funhouse Treatment
Children in Copenhagen have a little extra whimsy and fun added to their playground experience with the Mirror House, a pavilion and learning space used by kindergarten glasses. The gabled ends ...
Urban Adventure Playgrounds: Cool Places Too Few Kids Play
Where was your absolutely favorite place to play as a kid? Chances are, it was a pillow fort, a tree house or anywhere but a traditional playground. Moreover, studies have now shown that when ...
