PLAY Book

The 2027 PLAY Book explores the role of play in placemaking.

The PLAY Book from Landscape Structures showcases some of the year’s most striking and innovative custom playgrounds, spray play environments and shade structures—offering inspiration for landscape architects designing spaces where play is part of a bigger plan.

These real-world projects demonstrate how thoughtfully designed play environments can complement architecture and landscape, respond to the character of a site, strengthen community identity and create destinations where people want to gather. From inclusive playgrounds to nature-inspired, custom and destination play environments, these projects illustrate the many ways play can become an integral part of a park, campus, neighborhood, streetscape or public space.

For more than 50 years, Landscape Structures has partnered with landscape architects and designers to create play environments that consider the complete experience of a place—from circulation and accessibility to gathering, landscape and recreation.

Request a 2027 PLAY Book, view the digital 2027 PLAY Book, or explore past PLAY Books below. Each is designed to spark ideas for your next park, playground or outdoor recreation project and to show how intentional play design can help transform a space into a memorable community destination.