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...thinking you're sitting on the Michelin Man with Van Heereveld's Q-Couch. It's not inflatable, but it's made from the same expanded polypropylene used for side-impact protection in car design. Like the Belgian company's similarly vibrant Sliced and Orca ranges, this is playground furniture for grownups. http://feek.be
...school buildings are education-department issue in a wilderness setting. But the surrounds are graffiti-free and clean-quite different from most remote settlements. The children are managing a vegetable patch, dwarfed by tall sunflowers; the playground equipment is still functioning. In Miss Kristina's class for little ones-Adiliah, Adoniah, Camille, Charlotte, Dudley, Elaine, Garry, Shonetta, Sunray, Tuwannah, Vaughan and Vondella-they are playing a memory game with shapes. All the kids appear to be well-fed, with a piece of fruit never far out of reach (Boyle has to hide the supplies). At playtime, games are spirited...
...grab the attention of designers in other fields. Architect David Rockwell, designer of the Nobu restaurants in Manhattan and the set of the musical Hairspray, says skate parks, with their use of "the continuous ramp that leads you through a series of adventures," were an inspiration for a new playground he's working on. Joe Ragsdale, who teaches landscape architecture at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, says that every year his students come up with different ways to provide ideal flight paths for intrepid skaters. "Skate parks have come of age," he says...
...reasons that no one has ever fully explained, skateboarding made a comeback in the '90s, and with it came a return to the construction of skate parks--safer places that usually required helmets and elbow pads. Park "design" tended to be contracted out to sidewalk-concrete pourers, playground-equipment manufacturers and lowball bidders. Most had never set foot on a skateboard, much less done a 360 on one. The results were uninspiring. To an intrepid teenager, a mass-produced ramp is about as exciting as a documentary on the Federal Reserve System. Thrasher, a skating magazine, spotlights the worst parks...
...Still, I hesitate to proclaim that our departure from the playground symbolizes how my friends and I have finally decided to mature and “grow...