The best playgrounds for children. Play together

We go for a walk with the baby to one of the Moscow parks, to one of the free playgrounds. After all, there are slides, and ladders, and rocking chairs, and houses, and even ship ropes. Mosgorpark helped the Hedgehogs to make the TOP of the best of the best in different city parks.

MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPLEX FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES "EMERALD CITY"

There are 12 playgrounds in Sokolniki Park in total. In addition, there is a multifunctional complex for children with disabilities " Emerald City". It is located within the boundaries of Kostrovaya Square, on the 1st Luchevoi Prosek. It has a variety of children's attractions, sports grounds and trainers.

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This is a playground for creativity and entertainment for children of all ages. The playing area is built as a system of lanes, each of which has specific characteristics of coverage, topography, colors and gaming equipment. Lane coverage ranges from turf and dirt to wood decking and rubber. Part of the site is intended for creative pursuits from dancing to sculpture. Here you can work out on unusual simulators, climb stairs and ropes. The site was opened in September 2015.

Gorky Park

SITE "SEA ADVENTURES"

Playground by the Danish architectural firm Monstrum, known for its children's facilities in Europe. The site is located near the Golitsinsky Pond and is made in maritime theme: a large red octopus, ladders of ship ropes and waves, a lighthouse-shaped slide and a sunken ship lying on its side. The surface of the platform is made of pressed rubber crumb, which does not stain the knees and reduces the risk of injury.

PLAYGROUND "STROYKA"

In Neskuchny Garden, not far from the entrance from Leninsky Prospekt between houses 18 and 20, there is a themed playground "Stroika". The site opened in 2015. Instead of the usual slides and swings, children in a playful way can plunge into the atmosphere of a construction site: learn about construction technologies, learn how to operate an excavator and a crane, and choose building materials. The objects on the playground are made of Siberian larch, stainless steel, moisture-resistant plywood and filament ropes.

Poklonnaya Gora

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Real playground, one of the largest in Moscow parks, appeared in the summer of 2015 at the request of residents of the surrounding houses. It is located near the entrance to the park from the Park Pobedy metro station.

City area 2000 square meters includes 3 children's complexes designed for different age categories, swings, carousels, a sandbox and rocking chairs on springs. The site is very popular.

Hermitage Garden

KIDS CLUB AND SQUARE ROOM ON THE GROUND

In the cozy Hermitage Garden there is one of the best playgrounds in the city center, which includes a whole range of elements: slides, a sandbox, children's swings, rocking chairs and much more. Children's slides are inscribed in play houses. A safe rubber coating was made on the site, benches were installed along it.

In the center of the playground there is a squirrel cage, where several squirrels live permanently. And in the depths there is a children's club Mom's garden Seasons with a small cafe.

Garden them. Bauman

WOODEN CHILDREN'S TOWN

Another paradise for children in the city center is the Garden. Bauman, where a real town was built, there are two children's clubs, a children's hairdresser and a cafe.

A fairy tale town made of wood is a roller coaster, a pirate ship and a training ground for astronauts at the same time. The playground is designed for children from 2 to 16 years old, has special game elements and simulators for children with disabilities. The project was developed by the architectural bureau Wowhouse.

When designing the site, the architects collaborated with a Danish developer of a special baby equipment COMPAN. So there was a bicycle that allows you to do exercises for the hands. For visually impaired children, bright color zoning and devices for exercises that develop tactile perception are provided. Most of equipment is designed for joint games of healthy children and disabled children.

The climbing structures came about thanks to the Multiparks company, which specializes in rope parks. Part of the hanging ropes-vines is designed for the fact that the child in wheelchair can grab them with his hands and move, pulling himself up.

On the territory of the park there is another playground, located next to the architectural monument - the ancient grotto "Belvedere".

gardeners

PLAYGROUNDS IN THE RENEWED PARK

In 2014, three playgrounds for children were opened on the territory of the landscaped modern park "Sadovniki" different ages. At the service of young visitors there are several types of swings, a fantastic city, a bungee, a house, a sandbox, a slide, cable car and much more. Specially for the sites, facilities have been developed that help the development of large and fine motor skills, color perception, contrast vision and sensory.

Izmailovsky park

SHIP AND PLACE OVERLOOKING THE POND

There are four playgrounds in the Izmailovsky Park of Culture and Leisure - one in the northern part of the park and three in the central one. The largest one is located near the entrance to the park from Shcherbakovskaya street. The site is equipped with a game complex in the form of a ship, a swing, a sandbox, a carousel, a rocking chair, a slide, a children's house.

Another one interesting platform with a beautiful view of the Round Pond is located at the very beginning of the Alley of the Small Circle, not far from Central Square. On site there is game complex, sandbox and two slides.

Two other playgrounds in the park have carousels, swings, slides and other necessary elements.

Lilac garden

NEW SITE AND EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN

The Lilac Garden in eastern Moscow was landscaped in 2014, and a playground opened in 2015. It is equipped with several playgrounds, a sandbox, swings and a carousel.

For the most inquisitive, an experimental vegetable garden will open for the first time in the park in June. Children will be able to plant vegetables and care for them in order to harvest at the end of the summer season. This year, sweet peas, calendula, ornamental cabbage, pumpkin, nasturtium, chard (a type of beet) and perilla will grow in the beds. Perennials will bloom nearby in the flower beds: sage, lavender, mint, irises, phlox and daylilies.

Krasnaya Presnya

CITY FOR CHILDREN OPPOSITE MOSCOW CITY

Krasnaya Presnya Park, located in a residential area near Moscow City, has two playgrounds.

Large, with an area of ​​2400 sq.m., contains 36 game elements of different ages. There are sandboxes for children, including those for children with disabilities, carousels "Polka", "Waltz", "Azot", swings of several types, rocking chairs "Dinosaur", "Grasshopper", "Giraffe", "Motorcycle" and even complex "Parkour" for those who are older. For parents there are benches and a gazebo.

There are 12 game elements on a small platform, next to it there is a children's toilet module and a changing room.

Kuzminki

CHILDREN AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL GROUNDS

The objects on the main site in the park are located in such a way that they gradually become more complex clockwise from the entrance, corresponding to the age - from one to 15 years. For children, there is a fire truck, a spinner-bowl, cubes, horizontal swings, etc. The playground was developed by the International Institute of Games with the participation of doctors and psychologists. All objects are made of high quality European materials and are adapted for children with disabilities. In the summer, a screen is installed on the site and cartoons are shown on fresh air.

Within the territory of kids club"Sadik-Ogorodik" is another multifunctional site with climbing passages, wicker pipes, wooden bridges and a large sandbox.

People who grew up in the Soviet Union associate the playground with steel rockets, creaky swings and incomprehensible pipe structures. Modern playgrounds for such a person seem like an unprecedented sight, which is fraught with a lot of entertainment. But the rest of the world has long been bored with typical playgrounds and set off in search of something new. In addition, scientists have also found that games for a child are a very important part of development, and the more complex and varied they are, the better. Thus, the more interesting playgrounds, the better for children.

Zip World
Wales, England

The Victorian-era mine has been converted into an underground platform with a huge trampoline, tunnel nets, and hundreds of different passages and manholes.

City Museum
St. Louis, USA

A Ferris wheel on the roof, several airplanes suspended from cables, and a giant spiral slide connecting the roof and basement - all this is the space of the St. Louis City Museum, which is one large playground that adults do not hesitate to come to.

Toy railway
Odens, Denmark

There are children's railways in different countries of the world, but the Danes built the most outstanding of them. Children's road named Monstrum is a reduced replica railway station Odense of the 1960s and the ring of tracks around the main building.

Takino Suzuran
Hokkaido, Japan

Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi conceived this playground in the mid-1990s, but it wasn't built until the 2000s. It's one huge mesh woven with multicolored strong threads.

wallholla
Purmerend, The Netherlands

Wallholla is an analogue of a skyscraper in the format of a playground. Although, it looks more like an ant farm. Nevertheless, a lot of children's entertainments like manholes and walls are squeezed into it in a limited space. Wallholla has become a successful project and is sold as modules in different countries peace.

Woodland
Memphis, USA

In an effort to create the playground of the future, engineers have built a park in the forest, which is simply indispensable for starting some kind of game. Climbing, swings and constructors - all this is in abundance here. Before taking on the layouts, the designers interviewed hundreds of children in order to find out what a child really needs.

Harry Thomas School
Washington, USA

This playground is inspired by maths, including the Fibonacci sequence. Here, children can practically understand what numerical spirals are and get a rather big dose of mathematical knowledge in the game.

Nagasaki school
Nagasaki, Japan

The new school in Nagasaki has got an unprecedented playground, which is designed to brighten up school breaks. The rooftop area has a climbing net that you can climb down, and it also has a real fire pole to avoid ladders.

Imaginarium
New York, USA

In this New York playground designed by renowned architect David Rockwell, kids do everything for their own enjoyment. This minimalist park is designed to play with sand, water and a selection of blocks to build the most intricate things.

Lake Macquarie
Macquarie, Australia

then the Australian playground is designed for children, including the visually impaired and children in wheelchairs. It has a tower almost 20 meters high, a swing for wheelchairs, boats, equipment for musical duels and much more that even the most adult dreamer is not even able to imagine.

Crystal World Swarovski
Austria

Children may not yet know that Swarovski crystals are expensive and rich, but they can have a great time on the playground in the company's museum. It consists of four floors of entertainment, with trampolines, bungee ropes, a climbing net and other entertainment.

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1. wooden playground in the Bauman Garden
Its distinctive feature is the material from which the children's town is built. It's hard to believe looking at it fairy kingdom that all this splendor is made of wood. And the wooden parts are so processed and fitted to each other that you can forget once and for all children's fear splinter.

Address Wooden platform in the Bauman Garden:

Moscow, st. Staraya Basmannaya, 15

Nearest metro:

Red Gate

2. Wooden pirate ship on Tverskoy Boulevard
Here, children will be able to find friends, be in the fresh air and feel like a full participant in a very important quest. Moreover, they can set the rules of the game completely independently. As you can see, in order to make an exciting journey on a pirate ship, it is not necessary to travel far from the center of Moscow.

Address Wooden pirate ship on Tverskoy Boulevard:

Moscow, Tverskoy Boulevard

Nearest metro:

Tverskaya

3. "Emerald City" in "Sokolniki"
A distinctive feature of this playground is the fact that the sandbox, trampoline and labyrinth are located in covered houses, and different kind swings and carousels on the street. In the heat, being in an enclosed space is below average pleasure. But when it rains, and little fidgets urgently want to play, such a playground comes to the rescue.

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Everyone knows that childhood is a time of games and entertainment. When, if not in childhood, do we make endless discoveries, and each new day is filled with unforgettable impressions for us? One of the places where we take our first independent steps in the city is a playground in our yard.

All people are different from each other in some way; children's playgrounds, where new generations of people grow up, are also diverse.

And today we invite you to take a walk with us at once through nine unusual playgrounds of the world, from which sometimes even adults take their breath away and there is an irresistible desire to join the playing children.

Gulliver Park

Location: Valencia, Spain
Year of construction: 1990
Circle diameter: 80 meters
Area: approximately 0.5 ha

Children's park in Valencia, built based on an episode from the first part famous book Jonathan Swift, is a figure of the ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver thrown ashore, lying on the ground and entangled in ropes. The giant's body is divided into slides, steps, ropes, ladders, swings, hills and caves. Area - a joint project architect Rafael Riviera, artist Manolo Martin and designer Sento. Swift's ship's surgeon here bears little resemblance to illustrations from familiar books or actors who played him in films familiar to us, but, thanks to his rough facial features, rather, something akin to a figure of a man from a Lego constructor.

Not only a child, but also an adult can feel like a midget next to the gigantic figure of Gulliver - a character, according to the book, of quite human growth.

Princess Diana Memorial Playground

Location: London, UK
Year of construction: 2000
Area: approximately 1.7 ha
Project cost: £1.7 million

The site is located in London's Hyde Park, next to Kensington Palace. It was built on June 30, 2000, in memory of the deceased Lady Dee. While designing the venue, the designers drew inspiration from the stories of Peter Pan, and the centerpiece is a giant wooden pirate ship surrounded by sand.

There are six play areas on the territory of the site, there are swings, slides, wigwams, toys, a fountain, musical garden, a playground for children with disabilities. And all this is surrounded by the rich flora of Kensington Gardens. There is also a magic oak tree of the Elves, on which magical fairies left their drawings. More than 750,000 boys and girls visit this free playground every year. It is especially popular with children under 12 years old.

Fruit and berry playground

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Area: less than 0.1 ha
Number of fruits on the site: 13

In the southern part of Stockholm there is one of the most unusual playgrounds - fruit and berry. A banana slide, a cherry swing, a melon, an orange and a watermelon, a counting strawberry - these are just some of the unusual structures that are part of the park.
Despite the very compact size of the site, a secret is reserved for little lovers of secrets - a path hidden in the bushes that leads to a secret tree that you can and should climb.
The appearance of the site was preceded by studies conducted in Sweden over the past fifteen years, which indicate an increased percentage of obesity among children at the age of seven (from 8.5% to 21%). Thus, in addition to recreational, the site also performs social function, focusing the attention of children on fruits and berries as healthy and healthy food.

Park CLEMYJONTRI

Location: Fairfax City, Virginia, USA
Year of foundation: 2000
Territory area: 0.8 hectares, in the future - development up to 10 hectares.
Visitors per year: average 200,000

CLEMYJONTRI park is a unique playground where children, including those with disabilities, can play with each other without restrictions. The park was founded thanks to local resident Adele Lebovits, who donated more than 7 hectares of property to the municipality.

The name CLEMYJONTRI comes from the names of the four children of the Lebowitz family: Carolina (CL), Emily (EMY), John (JON) and Petrina (TRI).
The park is equipped with: ramps; swing with high backs, armrests and a special security system; rubber floor coverings that make it easy to move strollers; sensory equipment; wide openings that provide easy access for children when playing.
The park has a picnic pavilion, benches throughout play area, cozy pleasant places for active games, as well as isolated areas for solitary games in small groups.
The park is divided into 4 zones.

The first one is called "Rainbow", adapted for physical development and teaches children to distinguish the colors of the rainbow.
On the second site, "School and Labyrinth", there are educational panels from which you can form a labyrinth, the shape of which can be changed if desired. The site is focused on educational and educational games, teaches children to read geographic Maps understand time zones and time.
The third platform is transport, allows children to drive vehicles: motorcycles, planes, trains; stimulates the development of imagination, helps to strengthen the vestibular apparatus and develop special skills; imitates various situations occurring on real roads.
The fourth platform is a fitness area, which includes a significant part of the gaming equipment, as well as various components gym, helps to perform exercises that promote and physical development children, and the formation of trusting relationships between them.

Playground Kilda

Location: Adelaide, Australia
Year of creation: 1982
Territory area: 4 hectares

The name of the playground comes from an Australian place name, which in turn comes from a Scottish place name. And the name of the Scottish toponym does not at all come from the name of St. Kilda (such a saint never existed), but is either a distorted second name of the Hirta archipelago, which, in turn, comes from the Irish word Ier (west), or comes from the words "Skildir" ("shields" in Old Norse). In a word, even the name of this site is very complex and confusing.

She herself has the same property: in the motley variety of site structures there is a wooden castle, a small labyrinth, a submarine nicknamed “Yellow Submarine”, but the largest attraction of the park is the coast with the wreckage of a pirate ship that crashed. All of the above objects were added to the ensemble of the children's park relatively recently - during the last reconstruction in 2007.

The St.Kilda Playground is federally funded, equipped with slides, trampolines, cozy places in natural area. The playground is intended for children of 5-12 years of age, and allows the young guests of the playground who come here to play together, regardless of different backgrounds and material circumstances for each. Here, playing children can develop their imagination, run, jump, play with animals (turtles and chickens live on the territory of the playground), and they can simply afford to be children.

Jacob Ballas Children's Botanical Garden

Location: Singapore
Area: approximately 1.5 ha
Project cost: about 6 million US dollars

The Jacob Ballas Botanical Garden is designed as a unique and interactive garden that cultivates a love of nature and environment in children and youth. While playing in this garden, children can discover that the plants, which are not often seen in the city-state of Singapore, are not only beautiful, but also very useful, and also indispensable, as they satisfy their daily needs. “All life on Earth depends on plants” is the motto of this garden. Walking along it contributes to the development of the child not only curiosity and imagination, but also a sense of gratitude to the world of wildlife.

With the help of interactive displays placed in the park, young children can learn about the fundamental processes that take place on the planet with the participation of vegetation. For example, here you can find out what photosynthesis is and why it is crucial for the existence of life on earth. At the service of little lovers of water entertainment - aqua playground.
There is also the Fantastic Forest, an adventure forest where children learn about rainforests, the Tree House with slides and a rope bridge, and the Frangipani Tunnel, where children can learn about nutrient cycling. There is also a not entirely man-made attraction here: children can play hide and seek around the giant trunk of a 100-year-old Pometia Pinnata tree, the name of which we could not translate into Russian for the reason that it does not even have a Russian name - after all, Singapore is from us far.

Tire playground

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Year of establishment: 2009
Area: 0.4 ha
Number of tires used: more than 3000

The unusual playground Nishi Rokugo Koen is located in Tokyo, and almost all the functional structures in it are made from waste tires of the different size. The site is completely covered with sand, and abundant tires can be found here in the most unexpected and bizarre combinations: either in the form of a dinosaur molded from tires, standing up on its hind legs and growling at something in the sky, or in the form, for example, made of the same tires hills or bridges. There is also a swing made of tires, tunnels made of tires, treadmills made of tires, a climbing wall made of tires, and finally, some incomprehensible monsters - also made of tires. In addition to all this, there are plenty of just tires lying freely around - in case you want to play with the help of a game that you invented right on the spot.

The site owes its abundance of tires to its proximity to the Kawasaki aircraft factory, named after the city, which is now part of Tokyo. In addition to a comfortable place for children to spend their leisure time, this playground also performs another function - a reminder to parents about the need for careful handling of everyday household waste.

Jamie Bell Playground

Location: Toronto, Canada
Year of creation: 1998
Area: 0.2 ha
Amount of donations for restoration after the fire: $300,000

The site consists of palaces and castles built of wood. In each of these castles you will find slides, tunnels, passages and manholes for little lovers of fairy tales and adventures. The design of the towers favors the peace of mind of the parents - it is quite easy to observe the children playing due to the location of the openings and windows. The site got its name not at all in honor of the young English actor Jamie Bell, who played in the films "Billy Elliot" or "The Adventures of Tintin", but in honor of the volunteer who came up with the theme of the site. Medieval-style palaces and castles immerse your children in Magic world fairy tales and adventures. Any girl playing here can feel like a princess, and a boy can feel like a noble knight. Everything is so saturated with the theme of the Middle Ages that even a tire that serves as a seat in a rope swing seems to fit into the landscape.

Last spring, the site burned down, and it was not the fairy-tale dragon that was to blame, but an unknown arsonist. But already in July 2012, by the efforts and means of volunteers - ordinary citizens and their children, the site was completely restored. The central castle, which has risen from the ashes, is slightly lower than the old one (for legal reasons, the volunteers could not quickly obtain permission to build the castle of its former height), but it is somewhat larger in area.

St. Louis City Museum

Location: St. Louis, USA
Year of foundation: 1997
Diameter of forged pipes leading to aircraft: about 120 centimeters
Visitors per year: over 600,000

At first glance, it becomes clear that this is not an ordinary city museum. If you ask local residents What to see in St. Louis, every second, if not every first, will tell you the city museum. Inside the former shoe factory building, slides are equipped along a spiral staircase, and if you are not too lazy to walk all 10 floors, then you can ride the entire length. In addition, inside the museum you can find other attributes of the playground: pits with balls, large wheels, inside which you can feel like a squirrel or a hamster. Somewhere here, within the walls of the indoor areas, is the world's largest pencil, listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Wandering around the second floor, you can also find an impressive aquarium with sharks and rays. A low, but wide enough tunnel passes through the aquarium, through which you can only crawl.

On the third floor, you will find a toy railway with a train, on which children can move around the entire floor. Nearby is a school of circus skills, where you can learn to juggle and show tricks.

However, the most interesting awaits us behind an inconspicuous door on the fourth floor. It doesn’t go into the next room, but directly onto the street, where through wrought iron tunnels, over planted trees and past monsters hovering in the sky, you or your children can crawl to two real North American F-86F-40-aircraft hovering above the ground. NA Sabre. This is an external site called "MonstroCity". Design solutions at this site are overturning habitual ideas about space: for example, a yellow school bus is on the roof of one of the wings of the museum and it seems that it is about to fall off from there.

Despite the apparent instability, the design is absolutely safe and meets all the requirements and standards for any playground in Missouri. However, for children with a fear of heights or children with nervous parents, this site, perhaps, is still contraindicated.

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In all countries of the world, architects are trying to present children with playgrounds where the kids could turn on their imagination and with joy learn something new for myself.

Today, there are sites that float on the water or have giant animal shapes.

6. Knitted giant alligator at the playground, Sao Paulo, Brazil

This knitted giant alligator was created in 2012 by a Polish architect known as Olek (now based in Brooklyn).

This design was installed in a playground in Sao Paulo, the architect of which is Marcia Maria Benevento (Márcia Maria Benevento).

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7. The Pod Playground, Canberra, Australia

This site is located on the hill of the National Arboretum in Canberra. It is worth noting that this arboretum has more than 100 forests in which rare species trees, some of which are on the verge of extinction.

8. Site at the City Museum (The City Museum), St. Louis, Missouri

This museum was originally designed by sculptor Bob Cassilly. After his death, the work of the sculptor was continued by a group of 20 masters who called themselves the Cassilly Crew (Team Cassilly).

As a result, the museum with an area of ​​more than 55,000 square meters acquired a play complex made from recycled aircraft, 2 slides the height of a 10-story building, several multi-story slides and a Ferris wheel on the roof.

9. Kristineberg Slottspark, Stockholm, Sweden

The Danish studio MONSTRUM has already built several very interesting and original venues, for which it has become famous. This playground includes sculptures of owls, two of which - the king and queen - are almost 5.5 meters high.

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10. Blue whale, Gothenburg, Sweden

The same company MONSTRUM built in Gothenburg just such a 15-meter blue whale. Children can climb into his stomach and slide down the slide that starts on his back.

11. Tower Playground, Copenhagen, Denmark

Another work of architects from MONSTRUM is a playground with two towers. It is worth noting that the company was founded by two stage decorators, so all the works of the Danish team have theatrical elements.

This site was modeled after the sketches of the most famous towers in Copenhagen. There is even a star observatory here.

12. Children's station, Odense, Denmark

The last playground from MONSTRUM on our list is the Children's Station. This indoor playground is located in the Museum of Danish railways. It was built based on the main railway station of the city of Odense in the 1960s.

The playground has a moving train and a control room where kids can learn how a locomotive works.

13. Sun Bird Park

Informally, this site is called Vail Nests. Located in Vail, Colorado, it was built by Tres Birds Workshop as part of a series of parks commissioned by guest artists.

The site is a large wooden nest, interconnected by ropes and bridges.

14. Swing Time, Boston, Massachusetts

This site was temporarily installed near the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The author of the idea is the firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture. The play area includes 20 illuminated swings that change color from white to purple as they are used.

15. Trampolines in the cave (Bounce Below), Blynay Festiniog, Wales

The name of this site can be translated as "jump below". It is located inside the Llechwedd Slate Slate and consists of giant trampolines. It is worth noting that there used to be a mine here.