The Lighthouse Slide | Creative STAR Learning
I love surprises. The Frank Kitts Playground on the waterfront in Wellington gave me a amazing a person. I was walking alongside, minding my own business, when out of nowhere rose this wonderful play structure.
If you glimpse carefully you can see the albatross temperature vane adorning the top rated. The cartoonish spikes and places on which it sits seem to be there purely to cause speculation and wonder. What is significantly less obvious is that every single put up going up the stairs and all-around the very first ground system have these gorgeous silver shells which further more reference Wellington’s maritime heritage…
There are a number of exits and entry factors to the very first amount. Aside from stairs, there’s a modest slide and two poles. I usually think it’s a excellent indication when youngsters are climbing up slides. I also saw a guardian do the exact on the significant slide!
The next stage is a caged affair. Even though there is no flashing lighthouse light, there is a superb see of the waterfront.
Equally slides are made from what feels like fibreglass but I could be mistaken.
No matter, you can see that it is a considerably loved and nicely-played on slide.
It is been tough to obtain info on-line about who intended this feature and when. I consider it would be excellent to know and to formally thank the designer and funders for creating amazing example of how heritage, society, art, modern design and style and sheer pleasurable can arrive jointly in one quirky perform attribute. We will need this form of tactic to turn into commonplace.
2022 Update. The Frank Kitts playground is getting substantially redeveloped and as nonetheless, very little data is to be discovered about the proposed improvements. This post offers some clues. The lighthouse slide has been dismantled but a lot of of its features will seem in its substitute. This site write-up was at first released in April 2015.