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  • St. Pete Pier
    St. Petersburg, FL

  • Wanuskewin Heritage Park
    Saskatoon, SK

  • Johnston-McVay Park
    Westerville, OH

  • Rise Park
    Irvine, CA

  • Scissortail Park
    Oklahoma City, OK

  • Redwood Grove
    San Francisco, CA

  • Presidio Tunnel Tops
    San Francisco, CA

  • John Ball Zoo
    Grand Rapids, MI

  • Georgetown Day School Playground
    Washington, DC

  • Bridgeland Dragonfly Park
    Cypress, TX

  • River Park
    Breckenridge, CO

  • Laurier Park
    Edmonton, AB

  • Sugar Beet Park
    Fort Collins, CO

  • Story Mill Park
    Bozeman, MT

  • Joyner Park
    Wake Forest, NC

  • Grange Park
    Toronto, ON

  • Smithe & Richards
    Vancouver, BC

  • David Hamilton Park
    Richmond Hill, ON

  • Aldergrove Credit Union
    Aldergrove, BC

  • Custom Playground Design & Build

    Earthscape is an award-winning custom wood playground company based in Elmira, Ontario, Canada. We specialize in the conceptual design, site design, construction and installation of bespoke natural wood playgrounds. Our playground designs incorporate a combination of natural elements and artistic climbable play sculptures that stimulate both the development of the physical body and the imagination. We provide children with a holistic play experience and connection to nature that is too often missing from modern urban lifestyles.

    Design is at the heart of what we do, but it’s only half of who we are as a company. Once the playground designs are complete, we bring them to life with specialized carpentry and construction knowledge. Working on a project from design to installation empowers us to provide and ensure the highest quality playgrounds. That’s because we design playgrounds that are tailored to our construction techniques. Our designers and engineers are involved through the building, fabrication and installation process to ensure that the design vision is met. As a bespoke playground company that designs modern custom wood playgrounds, our work is focused on destination playgrounds, daycare, child care, landscape architects, city park playgrounds, neighbourhood parks, and municipal parks, as well as schools and other public commercial playground work.

    Custom Wood Adventure Playgrounds

    Custom Bespoke natural Playgrounds

    As a custom playground company, our bespoke playground designs and playground equipment are unique and full of creativity, vibrancy, and innovation. Our playgrounds and parks reflect the history, values, character, personality, and identity of the clients and communities that play there. If you have a dream and design vision, we can make it reality.  We work directly with landscape architects in a collaborative design process to come up with concepts and themes to tell stories, reflect history or speak to a theme. We bring your brilliant playground concepts to life.

    Natural Wood Playgrounds with character

    When you think about your favourite childhood play experience, what comes to mind? Perhaps you remember collecting sticks in the woods? Or maybe it was family time at a beach, hiking in a local park or digging for bugs in the garden? It’s likely that some or most of those memories involve being outdoors with family and friends. That is because simply being outside, with the freedom to explore and discover, is a formative and important experience for all children. They need unstructured, non-prescriptive play experiences where they can investigate, experiment, create, test their boundaries, and imagine with dramatic play. Kids are fascinated by the natural world: climbing trees, swinging on tire swings, whistling in blades of grass, making dandelion necklaces and running up and down hills on landform and topography. Increasingly sedentary lifestyles are contributing to a generation of children who lack opportunities for this type of play and therefore fall short of physical, social, emotional, and cognitive developmental milestones.

    We are a custom wood playground company builds playgrounds around the world using natural materials – especially wood.  The playgrounds are adventurous and challenging.  What is a natural playground? Natural wood playgrounds or adventure playgrounds, authentically connect children to nature and the physical world by offering and affording environments made of wooden logs, grass, rocks, boulders, pathways, trees, plants, water and sand. These play areas and spaces mimic play in a forest, ravine, field, meadow, and other natural surroundings by providing similar sensory experiences and non-prescriptive play value. Most importantly, they encourage children to use their imaginations, get dirty, take risks and surprise their senses. Children who experience assessing risk, taking risks, experiencing failure, mastering their surroundings and learning through play tend to experience greater happiness, increased physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development, spend more time outdoors, have better positive social relationships, gain confidence, become comfortable with their bodies and the movement of their bodies through the environment and become more well-adjusted. These learned experiences and developmental gains can be carried into adulthood to produce happier and more productive people.

    Natural playgrounds are developmentally beneficial to children, kids, supervisors, and adults. Custom bespoke playgrounds contribute to the character of a city, the personality and history, and local flavour. Play spaces can be gathering spaces for the community, and input from locals, residents, and visitors can enhance the design process and resulting playground design. A well-designed custom wood playground can establish and reinforce urban identity, community values, and connection to nature; it can attract visitors and residents to participate in the public realm, invite people to stay and encourage repeat visitors. Beautiful wood playgrounds are the best playgrounds in the world.

    Non-prescriptive play experiences and equipment invite children to run, climb, dig, pretend, learn and hide, while also offering opportunities to sit quietly, reflect, question, inquire, and observe. The goal and objective is to create meaningful, attractive, beautiful, creative, unique natural spaces where children – and adults – are stimulated by nature, colours, themes, storytelling, water and structures that inspire creativity, discovery, and fantasy.

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What We've Been Up To

Hang in there! It’s almost Fri-yay! Hanging fr Hang in there! It’s almost Fri-yay! 

Hanging from the inside of the conch shell sculpture at David Hamilton Park in Richmond Hill, ON at a wonderful project that was designed with @landscapeplanning and @myrichmondhill. 

📷: @jasonhashimoto 

#playgrounddesign #landscapearchitecture #landarch #earthscapeplay #sculpturalplay #conchshell #playground #playgroundfun #upsidedown #hangingout #kidsatplay #kidlife
We are so honoured to be a @land8 #socialmedia #wi We are so honoured to be a @land8 #socialmedia #winner alongside so many other amazing #landscapearchitecture firms, people and allied organizations. 

Many of the winners are also our collaborators so an extra special shout out to: @edsaplan @tbgpartners @nakdesign @clark_condon 

Congrats to all the winners who all deserve a follow!

Firms: @cadenceliving @studiodwg @arterialstreets @hochc.landschaftsarchitekten @asakurarobinson @damonfarber 

LAs: @landspace.arch @pangeaexpress @nahalsbt @marcelomarttinss @monumentblog @landarchetype @ceoshea773 @alberibelli_ @studios_landesign @humbleoaks 

Allied groups like us!
@landscape.first @nationalasla @njasla @michiganasla @w_x_la @seensocialagency @cppla @landscapeforms @anovafurnishings
The transformation of space at the @uofg_cclc is q The transformation of space at the @uofg_cclc is quite incredible when you compare these photos (after and before). 

The Centre wanted a versatile outdoor play environment constructed of natural materials to maximize opportunities to take risks, learn, interact, move and explore. Serving over 100 children and used as a research and teaching site for university students researching and observing early years, the playground is educational, fun and attractive. 

📷 @pam_tenwestphotography 
Collaboration @uofguelph & @hawkinscontracting 

#landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #landscapeconstruction #earthscapeplay #earlyyears #earlyyearseducation #playgrounddesign #childcare #childcarecenter #beforeandafter #outdooradventures #playeveryday #getoutsideandplay
No matter the weather, just get outside and play! No matter the weather, just get outside and play!  Life sure has its challenges these days but there’s no doubt that the great outdoors helps to reset the mood. 

This project was a collaboration with @todaysfamilyont where we have collaborated on #childcare #playgrounds for many of their sites!  Designed for play in all seasons and for different age groups. 

📷 by @pam_tenwestphotography 

#playgrounddesign #woodplayground #childcarecenter #landscapearchitecture #earlyyears #earlyyearseducation #hamont #ontario #playgrounddesigner #getoutside #playeveryday
Happy #nationalbirdday 🦉 🦅 Playground bird Happy #nationalbirdday 🦉 🦅 
Playground bird sculptures and towers are such welcoming creatures for children to engage with. Whether it’s an owl, Kingfisher or Cardinal - we love creating custom play features that reflect local flora and fauna. 

#playgrounddesign #earthscapeplay #customplayground #customdesign #bespoke #playground #owl #kingfisher #cardinal #play #kids #sculpture #landscapearchitecture #urbandesign
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone fro Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone from our Earthscape family. We wish you health and joy and all the best in 2021!

May you find time to rest, relax and PLAY after this crazy year!

Our office will be closed from noon today until January 4th as we recharge for an exciting year ahead!

#merrychristmas #happyholidays #sketching #playgrounddesign #landscapearchitecture
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earthscapeplay avatarEarthscape@earthscapeplay·
20 Jan 1351964113178652672

Who should you follow if #landscapearchitecture is your gig? Fantastic folks below!

Land8@Land8

cc: @EDSA_Inc @tbgpartners @CadenceLiving @studiodwg_atx @ArterialStreets @ClarkCondon @AsakuraRobinson @DamonFarber @pangeaexpress @MonumentBlog @landarchetype @ceoshea773 @NationalASLA @njasla @MichiganASLA @earthscapeplay @ANOVA_Furniture https://twitter.com/Land8/status/1351926779028647939

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earthscapeplay avatarEarthscape@earthscapeplay·
20 Jan 1351963995847221249

Really excited to be chosen as an allied professional by @Land8 social media awards! So many great firms, people and allied groups to follow among these winners!

Land8@Land8

CONGRATS! View 2020 Awards for Best Social Media in Landscape Architecture here: https://land8.com/land8-social-media-awards-in-landscape-architecture-2020-winners/ #landarch

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8 Jan 1347570006347886599

New downtown Vancouver park to open in late spring via @viawesome

We are thrilled to be working with @DIALOG on this project.

New downtown Vancouver park to open in late spring

The construction site at Smithe and Richards streets will turn into a park with bridges, a three-story play area, hammocks and more.

www.vancouverisawesome.com

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