In archival photos (slide three), you see kids gleefully mounting the concrete stairs and running around the 16-foot-diameter disc. It looked---dare I say it?---fun. Of course, the playground has ...
“While D.C. might be better known for its neoclassical monuments, it could just as easily be recognized for its many million-square-foot government agency offices,” Madsen says. In 1945, Congress ...
Over the course of a few decades ending in the mid-’70s, architects such as Erno Goldfinger, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Sir Basil Spence made London a brutalist playground. Forty years later, many ...
Part sculpture, part architectural installation, the exhibition revisits the mid-century playgroundsoften made from concrete. Featuring examples from a number of London estates, including Churchill ...
No matter if your childhood playground had a rusted metal slide that was scorching hot in summer or a sleek and safe structure of soft plastic climbing walls and swings, it’s likely that you created ...
A Brutalist public plaza completed in 1969 by I. M Pei and M. Paul Friedberg in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, will be reconstructed by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks). The ...
The Brutalist Playground by Assemble and Simon Terrill (Photo by Tristan Fewings & Getty Images for RIBA) Join us in a day-long celebration of all things play and take over the RIBA headquarters at 66 ...