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Yesterday AILA announced the top 5 entries per region with the most public votes for Australia’s Best Playground – and we made it!!  Our own entry, the Skywalker Plaground at Kellyville Public School, came in at the top of the ACT/NSW region, with 15,481 votes – thank you to everyone who voted!! Amazing effort! Other projects […]

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and State Attorney-General and Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton visited and officially opened our Goodstart Childcare Centre in Double Bay in December! Recognition from these dignitaries means A LOT to us! “This is the most amazing early learning centre I have ever seen in my life, I’ve seen quite a few,” said

  Our Nurragingy water park (at Doonside reserve) has been included in The Daily Telegraph’s list of twelve fun waterparks in Sydney for this summer! “The free water play area … is a magnet for kids and features a large windmill, a water wall spray fountain, jets, cannons and bucket dumpers” This project was fun to design and

It was an honour to to be able to write about Clive’s contribution to the playground industry and have it published in the latest issue of Landscape Australia. This is our third time being published in the Magazine!

Goodstart Double Bay childcare centre recently opened and is unusual in that the outdoor play is indoors!   An unusual innovation for us is the use of carpet as a landscape element – exciting! We have worked hard to create an imaginative and natural setting.  

Jamison Park, Penrith. An exercise, sport and recreation space for ALL ages and abilities! Immensely pleased with the outcome of this park and the public’s positive uptake of it!          

The last couple of months have been extremely busy in the office of Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects! Projects are being designed, finalised, constructed and opened left, right and centre! We are so excited by the new projects and their design challenges, and so proud of the progress and completion of playgrounds all over Sydney – delivering

Article published in the Waikato Times: April 29: “…kids are being wrapped in cotton wool and need to learn how to deal with risk. That’s the message from play advocates at a national conference in Hamilton this week, who think playgrounds need to have space for youngsters to climb trees, get grubby and learn how

This illustration depicts the perceived dangers of children interacting with nature. While the risks are real, the risks of staying indoors are much higher!! See following: This illustration demonstrates some of the risks of children spending too much time indoors.

  The combination of these 10 nature play elements in a design will create a gorgeous play space that children will love and benefit from! Use this framework to write nature play briefs or as the basis of concept plans. This diagram was presented in the 2015 PLA SA/NT State Conference by Fiona in her keynote talk “It’s In