The Brutalist Playground was originally commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBAA) in 2015 and features a newly commissioned addition based on the estate's original playgrounds built by architects Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith between 1957-61.
The old school building has been very simply rearranged by Jean-Francois Bodin: its original central playground and two flanking courtyards were converted into atria, providing a big reception space with shop and cafe segments, and double-height galleries capable of taking large-scale artworks and sculptures.
The formula was original: a playground chant, a cavernous hip-hop beat, harmonies that disappear upwards like wisps of smoke, and most importantly a message – a dry comment on the excesses of pop culture, "using the medium I was criticising to make my point".
When we walk in the Park, what we are seeing is not a protected bit of nature but something more original: a democratic playground, a liberal common, the ideal anti-plantation.
The prison look was part of the original design of the playground, which was made by a company called Landscape Structures and erected in March 2004, the Housing Authority said.
Witnesses in the second week of the trial included people present in the original confrontation on the playground and the police officers responding to the attack on 21 August 2008.
"It looks like a prairie-dog town". We had reached Columbus Park, an asphalt playground near the original Five Points, the slum where men would pay up to $5 during the 1870s to watch fox terriers battle rats in the backs of saloons.
First Steps Towards a Generic Google Spreadsheets Query Tool, or At Least, A Guardian Datastore Interactive Playground "In my original post on Making it a Little Easier to Use Google Spreadsheets as a Database (Hopefully!), I sketched out a simple form for helping create calls to a Google spreadsheet using the Google visualisation API query language.
We hope that this new surround cinema apparatus will both be as important a cultural touchstone for San Francisco as the original RML location, and be a playground for more groundbreaking new artistic endeavors out of the Bay.
This desperado built the original stone fortress as his notorious hideout and exotic playground on a sacred Indian site.
