Word: sandboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nivola cut costs to $30,000 by using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
TIVOLI GARDENS PLAYGROUND is the fair's most delightful haven for very small children. Created by some of Denmark's best artists and architects, it has canals to sail boats on, a long, twisty slide that ends up in a sandbox, a Viking ship to climb over, a maze with magic mirrors, holes to stick small heads through, and other diversions...
...there they are. Grown men playing in the world's biggest sandbox and wondering how on God's green earth they got there. They bicker, they drink, they gamble, they bicker. By day the sun, by night frustration fries them. As the womanless weeks go by, they turn into wild-eyed wolves who would tear each other to pieces for a fresh young chicken...
...GARDENS PLAYGROUND. The Danes are adept at entertaining children, and they take it seriously. Created by 13 of Denmark's top artists and architects, the playground is modeled after Copenhagen's. Kids can sail paper boats in shallow canals or swoop down a slippery slide into a sandbox, sit at tiny-tot tables and watch fireflies flit in the trees or play hide-and-seek in a maze with magic mirrors...
...adult attractions. Created by 13 top Danish artists and architects, the playground has everything to charm a child: fireflies flitting in trees, tiny-tot tables and chairs, shallow canals with paper sailboats, a hide-and-seek maze with magic mirrors, an S-shaped slippery slide in a giant sandbox, and legetanter (play aunts) to share...