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    MARCH a n a e VOLUME tOO' IIUMBER 3 LAND MATTERS. ART in the LANDCAPE 138 11igh Tide, Low Tide a seaside public art project. CHANGING PLACES 144 Resurrecting the "Adventllfe'-style / I playground Two new playgrounds in Central Park honor the past.

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    MARCH a n a e VOLUME tOO' IIUMBER 3 LAND MATTERS. ART in the LANDCAPE 138 11igh Tide, Low Tide a seaside public art project. CHANGING PLACES 144 Resurrecting the "Adventllfe'-style / I playground Two new playgrounds in Central Park honor the past.

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    CONTEN [as Ine Upitbe air ata Philadepbia a mops ito as. and every flower ‘ico design writrs share their ‘thoughts on the Rose Kennedy Groemsay. design b Resurrveting the “Adventure-Sty Playground ‘ON THE COVER Anant the ey Th! ibe M Dowel Sonmen reonera 2 | Landscape Architecture manen 010 ‘Two new playgrounds in Central Park honor hope for the future of pla US. pleroands wit thir dick urate of ae phil, colrfa, como side, and from sculptors fr clanbing are aang the worlds safe, lsat, and most indearetble But are they whe biden wane? Of eae ma, sz Lady Alles of Hurt, 68, a prominent British Landcap acid prot of be World Onizat or Early Child Ei cation. fi montis sve of be ast Cos shop playgrs the mms dc ager dso risply shat tbe are “an densa tur’ baaves aad childs Ell." Said sx i 44 Landscape architectare wasen ae ime edie wht ur playroamds arto be lig for ada, who fe to be nat, o for chilen, who ne ob dirty. TINE, JUNE 25, 1965 T'S BEEN NEARLY 45 YEARS since Lady Allen's visit, ec much offer criticism sill rings crue. Allen was an euly advocace foradventure playgrounds, spaces where children could create cheir own environ ments using hand toolsand serap macerials. Jnspired by kids playing in junkyardsand on yground design. By construction ses, Danish landscape archi tect Car Theodor Sorensen created the fist such playground in 1943. Following Woe War I, advencure playgrounds speang up hroughowr Europe; hossever, mese Amer= ican parks commissioners resisted the rend Even thea, Americans tended to be more “insurance canscious,” as Ton pit, aging ‘hat lawsuits mighe esl fom leecing kis play with bricks, rails, and saws. Bue while few erue adventure play rounds wereever bail in che United Sats, vorks by Isamu Noguchi, helped to inspite a major Allen's vist, along with unbuil shift in American playground design dur- ing the mid-1960, Jacob Riis Pha in New York Ciry (1966) by M. Paul Friedberg, PASLA and architece Richard Datenes's Ad venture Playgeound in New York's Ceneral Park (1967) were among ‘most publicized examples of whar some now call che “advencure-syle” playground. Unlike most playe sprinkled with stand-alone mo jest and ounds of that era— bars, snd slides hese aygrounds offered ‘enviconment with linked pl features where kids could not only exer dventurestyle but also participate in creative play a ‘nurtured their development. Designed by architects, landscape tors, they were carefully incegea the landscape and often resembled envi- ronmental ar. lay, most landscape architects avoid designing playgrounds due to concems Anclont Playground, ff, was an important work by Richard Dattner, one of 3 hanful of designers who revolutionized playground design in the United States during the 1960s, drawing on in spration from adventure playgrounds in Europe. twas recent renovated by the Central Park Conservancy, which preserved the spit ofthe place, abore, but few ofthe orignal structures. wn ig almost which, sine about liabiliey. Play equ ala ed from cata til recently, seemed to e dominated by lifeless poleand placform structures. “Ma ufaceured play environments across che land are filled ‘with boredom, emasculated of isk, th dullness, overloaded nd of ten empty af che vivaciey of childeen ac play.” wrote German T. Cruzin a leer co ne Architecture in January 2008, Adrian Benepe, New York City’s Parks and Recreation Commissioner, has echied that Landscape reitetere | 45 view. Playgrounds have “become less fan as we worry more and more about liabiliy he cold Tine ase year. "We've effectively dumbed chem down in che name of see Few advencure-style playgrounds re main. The codification of safery guidelines inthe early 1980sand the Americans with Disabilicies Act, passed in 1990, have led many schools and parks departments €0 tear out thei old playgrounds when major repairs are necessary and replace chem with new manufactured equipment New York's Central Pack isa notable ex- ception. Driven by a small group of preser- vationists and parents, dhe Cencral Patk Conservancy has atcempeed co retain the of a handful of historic playgrounds using a mixof preservation, reconstruction, and (more coneroversially) historicist = dlesign, The work culminated last summer ‘wich the renovation of Ancient Playground by Darener and the Tarr Family Playground by William Jacquerce, Kenneth Ress, and James Ryan, borh originally built in 1972. More than juse case scudies in historic preservation, chese ewo playgrounds are a ‘wake-up call chat will give hear to people concerned aboue ehe stae of playground design. Designed to meet both ADA and AsTMstandaes the renovated playgrounds are slightly less challenging chan cheir predecessors and seem co arcract slightly younger crowds; however, they are more Challenging than mose playgrounds being installed today, They suggest cha i is sil possible for landscape archicects to design aesthetically pleasing play grounds for smal ehildee, “The Central Packs Conse ‘ways take such a progressive approach to- ward its hiseorie playgrounds. During ehe early 1990s, “there was chs sense chat hey were ourdaced and dan, ney did noe al rous,” explains Lane Ackonizio, asso for planning at the conservancy. There ‘were arguments within the conservancy abou whether they were protected under che park’s landmark designation. Ad: donizio credits advocacy groups such as Landmarks West! with opening their eyes 1 the playgrounds’ value In an essay titled Thy Politics of Play, Michael Gotkin, a landscape architect and sh vice president playground historian, chronicled the i rosave Dattner’s Adventure Pla the firse adventure-style playground in ‘Centsal Park to be preserved eoany extent. ‘The sceds for char playgrounds preserva tion were sown in the public process asso Gated with the original design. Back in ehe 1960s, neighborhood parents were de rmancling a safer and more creative play ground at 67th Street, explains Gotkin, and Darrner, who was hired by the Joseph and Estee Lauder Foundation, actually held desig charretes with these parents £080 lice ideasand build us. This practice was {quite novel ac the time and was covered in The New York ines as an emerging ered Many parents and children involved in the original process had fond memories of ‘The Ta Adventure Playground and the relacion- ships ie fostered. One of those parents, Ar- lene Simo preservation group Landmark West, says her daughter had such warm memories of ‘the playground thar she was photographed there for her page in her high school year- book. So when Simon heard abour plans to replace much of the playground with manufactured equipment in 1996, sh helped organize some of the parents i volved in the original process intoa group called Friends of the Advencure Play- ground. Eventually, she even convinced Datener to become involved and advise che cho is now president of the conservancy as a pro bono consultant. "T asked che conservancy: this man dea she explains. "Why wouldn't you go back tothe o aan importanc playground? While Simon i tll disippoinced wich the loss of much of the sand surrounding the playground (sce “Removing Sand, page 54) and che demolition of the origi ral wooden pyramid, her group was able to convince the conservancy co preserve much of che original design, Wood com- ponents were mostly removed and re- placed since they were becoming splintery, bbuc the concrete structures did not require inal architece when this is such Family Playground was designed as Discovery Pay Park by Jacauelte, Ross, and Ryan in 1972, oposite bottom. The conservancy’ renovations here preserved or recreated many ofits Koni features, above and below. The ire ewings were relocated, opening up vews toa voleano-shaped climber. Unfortunate, the tres integrated into this playground were lot lst summer when 80-nil-perhour winds ravaged trees throughout the park. precaneT nT ea posite climbing structures (wood; (K) climbing pyramid with tunnels and slides; (L1 anduating landform; (tire swings; (Noriginalobeish/water tower pre served and reactivated (] water spray feature; (P safety surface; (Q) climber; (Rte house; (S]tdler maze; (7) climbing cone with tunnel and sides; (U] net climber; and (VI bridge. Wes TeEromne any leerations and did nor epresent a se- rious safety risk, so ce designers were able Co leave chem as chey were without mak- ing chem conform ro today’s standats, “The 72nd Sereet playground, renovat- ced in 1999, was another struggle for _preservacionsts, but for nearly a decade, ‘whenever the conservancy has renovated ‘one ofits advencure~style playgrounds, it haa entered the project with the goal ofr specting the original design. The conser= vvancy has consulted with the original ar- hicects on all of the renovations since then, and ic has worked with preservation advocates and other community members who use the playgrounds to ery to resolve theie differences with ehoughefal design. Destroying the Playground to Save tt ‘Chris Nolan, ASLA, che conservancy’ vice £ president for capital projects and its chief 3 landscape architect, has led che efforts co

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