Best of #Playgrounds

Ten places to play, to create community, to transform a neighborhood or to stimulate the creativity of children and adults, from Mexico to Australia via Lebanon.

Dragonfly Park, Hoi An, Vietnam. Photo Oki Hiroyuki
From a tree house in Israel to networks intertwined trees in Vietnam: ten stories of spaces for kids, but also for adults, celebrating the importance of playing and its ability to provoke thought, the construction of a community or the redevelopment of a run-down area.

– With his last project Playground James Mollison collects scenes of laughter, tears, and games from rich and poor schools all around the world, demonstrating the intense experiences which happen in the playground.

– CatalyticAction launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a playground for Syrian refugee children in Bar Elias, Lebanon.

– Seven colorful houses dot the landscape of Mama Smile, the playground designed by Emmanuelle Moureaux like a miniature town in a shopping center in Japan.

– The project Zona Infantil derives from the need to offer more quality spaces for movement to kids in the Parque México and at large in México D.F.

– Snøhetta designed a playtower and adjacent playground, a shop entrance, and a restaurant area for the grand re-opening of Swarovski Kristallwelten.

– A pine tree supports the tree house designed by Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski for the entrance of the Youth Wing for Art Education at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

– Using pop-up clerestory windows, primary shapes and platonic forms, CO-AP inserted new architecture into a former industrial warehouse building near Sydney, transformed into a childcare center.

– Commissioned to Guinée*Potin Architectes by the Voyage à Nantes for its 2014’s edition to invent “Playgrounds”, the Footcheball is a signal on Nantes’ Island dockside.

– NP2F realized two playgrounds within the “Grand Paris”. The first one is temporary, located in front of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal; the second one, permanent, in Alfortville.

Dragonfly Park by V-architecture on the Vietnamese coast has been conceived with the aim of improve public spaces in the city and of changing the approaches of city’s authorities.

Top: Dragonfly Park, Hoi An, Vietnam. Photo Oki Hiroyuki

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