A New Kind Of Playground?

David Rockwell usually builds playgrounds for adults – high-end restaurants, theatre sets and expensive stores. But, he wondered, is there a way to rethink the traditional children’s playground? His first project “will forswear slides and jungle gyms and instead employ an open multilevel space with large sand and water features, dams, cables, pulleys and an array of ‘loose parts’ — toys and tools that kids can use to alter the environment.”