Celebrating 45 years of play at Gum Springs Park! We’re thrilled to introduce the first Lunia in North America! As the stunning centerpiece, this unique structure brings the adventure of a hot air balloon to life, incorporating a spatial net that offers a variety of climbing routes to encourage exploration and adventure. Its design carefully blends aesthetics with functionality, creating a play area that not only looks inviting but also provides challenging and engaging activities for children of all ages.
An exciting project at the Canòdrom and a Berlin novelty from the rope factory: the Berliner Masche. This innovative new concept enables us to create a three-dimensional space from a planar net, to fill large areas or to create special shapes. For example, steel rings can be used to create high and low points that allow for gently flowing surfaces. Thanks to our in-house rope production, we have been able to develop a more flexible rope that adapts perfectly to these shapes.
When we learned of the devastating fires in Lahaina, Hawaii in August 2023, we were deeply saddened. Due to our intensive cooperation with the Hawaiian schools, especially in recent years, the fate of the Maui community hit us particularly hard. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sympathy once again. The city of Lahaina has begun rebuilding in recent months. The children of the community should soon be able to attend school again. We would like to support them to make their new start easier, or rather, to move forward. Through an appeal for donations to our US partners, we were able to raise 5,000 dollars for Lahaina. For our part, we would like to give the school and especially the students a piece of playground equipment.
Ten kilometers from Houston in Texas, in a small community, the new Camp Flewellen park opened in the summer of 2023. Part of the park is a playground that offers local residents plenty of variety. Kids of all ages can engage in this diverse playground; climbing, sliding, balancing, overcoming challenges or just relaxing. This amazing park was made possible through the design vision of Eric Marshall with swa group and local Berliner distributor fun abounds.
In the US state of North Carolina, in the small town of Apex, the almost 400,000 m² big Pleasant Park opened in summer 2023, offering multi-purpose playing fields, sports fields, cross-country trails, a food truck road and the brand new 6,000 m² “Enchanted Forest”. It contains nine inclusive playgrounds. These nine “villages” include water, nature and sand play areas as well as areas with swings and spinning elements. Each playground has been designed with its own story – a place to dive into the greatest fairy tales and give every player the chance to be part of the story.
Our new product LaGrange is the impressive 18 feet high and 27 by 21 feet large play barn, which introduces the combination of various play cells with a spatial net. The posts inclined at 5 degrees and the partially open facade make the design of the play structure unique and arouse curiosity about the interior. To give the playhouse the look of a real barn while creating more transparency, bamboo is combined with the innovative and transparent Joe's Grid. On request, the facade can be customized.
Our latest product, WaggaWagga, is a modular, multifunctional play structure with a distinctive design and a large play volume offering a variety of play functions on a narrow footprint. The largely clad facade results in little safety surfacing and reduces the need for safety surfacing material. With its numerous climbing and play elements, WaggaWagga provides varied play for many children at the same time, while only requiring a narrow standing area of 4'3” by 19′. Different net elements for climbing and overcoming or rubber membranes for romping or relaxing form an exciting play landscape inside the climbing frame.
Hasepark in Osnabrück, Germany gets its name from the adjacent waters “Klöckner-Hase” also called just “Hase”. It runs south of the city park and separates the living area in the North from the industrial space south of the river. The green area, known as a social flashpoint in the past, was supposed to be reconstructed as a recreational area for young and old in 2019. A playground, covering about 15.000 m2, was constructed. The goal was to make it a destination for families taking a day trip across the city as well as cover the needs of inhabitants living in closer districts. The theme of inclusion was of special importance to the new playground. There was also a Parkour and Calisthenics structure planned for physically active teenagers and adults. To minimize potential conflict between the playing children and crossing cyclists or pedestrians, the routing of the park as well as the shoreline were optimized.
Down in the Lone Star State, where the BBQ and live music are accompanied by hot temperatures, is Houston, Texas. Houston is the largest and most populated city in the state and the fourth largest city in the US. With its unique blend of art, award-winning cuisine, fast-growing businesses, cultural diversity and Southern charm, this cosmopolitan city attracts tourists from all over the world.
