Looking at our custom log climber at Armstrong-Kelley Park makes us want to get outside and climb trees 🌲 We specialize in children’s play environments to create opportunities that inspire imagination and encourage exploration! Photos by Jane Messenger, client @thetrustees and construction @rpmarzillilandscape
Hello spring, we’ve missed you… magical garden spaces are just around the corner 🌞 reach out to us to create your own bit of garden woo woo.
Woodbine residential project.
Image by @dandolionsdesigns
Thank you @laura.alice.fenton for our great conversation and to @gardenista_sourcebook for the feature on our Woodbine project. Rewilding and community engagement is at the heart of our practice. 💚
Thank you @landezine_com for profiling Sticks & Stones. This project is our sincere effort to get kids and adults to play in the woods. Sticks and Stones engages material, scale and narrative to inspire play in obvious and obscure ways for users of all ages. This playground is a garden and this garden is a playground.
Photos by Jane Messinger
Looking back at our For the Girls project. The clients needed a space for the girls to run, climb, hide, and explore. The design layers the play experience: slide, climber, scramble, and discovery path into a rich, wild garden, using planting to knit the space together and elegantly hold a multifaceted program that serves the whole family.
Images @caitlinatkinson_photography
Looking back at our For the Girls project. The clients needed a space for the girls to run, climb, hide, and explore. The design layers the play experience: slide, climber, scramble, and discovery path into a rich, wild garden, using planting to knit the space together and elegantly hold a multifaceted program that serves the whole family.
Images @caitlinatkinson_photography
Looking back at our For the Girls project. The clients needed a space for the girls to run, climb, hide, and explore. The design layers the play experience: slide, climber, scramble, and discovery path into a rich, wild garden, using planting to knit the space together and elegantly hold a multifaceted program that serves the whole family.
Images @caitlinatkinson_photography
Each year Lu–La partners with a local school for a pro bono design-build. This year, we helped launch the St. Theresa Garden Club to establish an ecological learning and environmental stewardship program at the school. We rebuilt planter retaining walls and filled them with hundreds of native pollinators. We cut back the asphalt to make way for a nature play area that includes playhouses, a mud kitchen and log and boulder paths. Only a few short months, and the site is already buzzing. Thank you to all the volunteers for making this happen!
Photos: Gabi Gage
Big thank you to @tavarezsq for their boulder donation and log delivery!
Each year Lu–La partners with a local school for a pro bono design-build. This year, we helped launch the St. Theresa Garden Club to establish an ecological learning and environmental stewardship program at the school. We rebuilt planter retaining walls and filled them with hundreds of native pollinators. We cut back the asphalt to make way for a nature play area that includes playhouses, a mud kitchen and log and boulder paths. Only a few short months, and the site is already buzzing. Thank you to all the volunteers for making this happen!
Photos: Gabi Gage
Each year Lu–La partners with a local school for a pro bono design-build. This year, we helped launch the St. Theresa Garden Club to establish an ecological learning and environmental stewardship program at the school. We rebuilt planter retaining walls and filled them with hundreds of native pollinators. We cut back the asphalt to make way for a nature play area that includes playhouses, a mud kitchen and log and boulder paths. Only a few short months, and the site is already buzzing. Thank you to all the volunteers for making this happen!
Photos: Gabi Gage
SolBe: A trike path loops around an open play yard of soft mounds. Plant beds punctuate the edges offering secret spaces for exploration. The central hill slide and natural wood play elements of laying logs, steppers and tree trunk tunnel invite physical challenge and safe risk taking. Edged by a stacked wood outdoor classroom, the Solbe play yard embraces the Reggio Emilia approach of the “environment as the third teacher” actively encouraging and provoking children’s exploration, creativity, and collaboration.
Photos: Haley Dando
SolBe: A trike path loops around an open play yard of soft mounds. Plant beds punctuate the edges offering secret spaces for exploration. The central hill slide and natural wood play elements of laying logs, steppers and tree trunk tunnel invite physical challenge and safe risk taking. Edged by a stacked wood outdoor classroom, the Solbe play yard embraces the Reggio Emilia approach of the “environment as the third teacher” actively encouraging and provoking children’s exploration, creativity, and collaboration.
Photos: Haley Dando
