The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority in Western Australia has unveiled the design of a new playground on an artificial island in Elizabeth Quay.
The playground, designed by Aspect Studios in collaboration with Nature Play, and artist Anne Neil, will be an interactive, learning-oriented space that integrates the concepts of nature play and adventure.
Inspired by the maritime history of Western Australian, the playground will feature a sandpit with landscaped boulders, a shallow pond with creeks, water pumps and channels, climbing ropes and frames and a ship’s mast with a bell.
The playground will provide children with the opportunity to explore and learn through nautically-themed imaginative and active play.
Elizabeth Quay, master planned by ARM Architecture and Taylor Cullity Lethlean, is the centrepiece of a major urban renewal project designed to connect the city to the Swan River. The project features a promenade that wraps itself around the inlet as well as an artificial island in the centre. The island will be home to the new children’s playground as well as the Florence Hummerston Kiosk – a heritage-listed Federation Arts and Crafts structure which has been dismantled from the Esplanande and will be reconstructed on the island.
The public realm of Elizabeth Quay is expected to open later this year and the playground will open in early 2016.
