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volume 28 number 10 features 40 Helen Diller Playground, San Francisco In March, San Francisco's 14-acre Mission Dolores Park became the new home to the Helen Diller Playground, an urban play area filled with customized features that hundreds of local children, school groups and parents now use on a daily basis. —Steven Kirn, TimberForm 48 40 Deicke Park Discovery Zone In developing the Deicke Discovery Zone the Huntley Park District made the commitment to create a "play for all" playground, placing a high priority on correcting the imbalances in recreation on behalf of children with disabilities. —Stephen Kelly, editor 56 Centennial Center Park In August 2012, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper led a crowd of hundreds at the new Center Park in Centennial to welcome home the Colorado Olympians. Centennial Center Park opened in April as the first municipal park in Centennial, a community incorporated on Feb. 7, 2001 just southeast of Denver. —Axel Bishop, PLA, ASLA, Design Concepts, CLA, Inc. 48 56 64 Mount Greenwood Park, Chicago: The Artful Playground Mount Greenwood Park, on the southwest side of Chicago, is home to one of six therapeutic programs offered by the Chicago Park District that brings together children and adults of all skill levels and abilities. The park provides users with a vast array of amenities, which include baseball and softball fields, a swimming pool, an ice-skating rink, a field house and a playground. —Julie Smith, Associate Landscape Architect, Hitchcock Design Group 72 64 Into the Trees: A Custom Forest-Inspired Playground in Arlington, Texas What parent or grandparent doesn't recall charging off into the woods and meadows to explore nature's wonderful gifts? We would climb trees, jump from boulders, catch bullfrogs, dive into ponds, chase rabbits …. and never worry about catching poison ivy or getting scared off by snakes. Sadly, it seems those days are gone forever. —John Fain, ASLA, LEED AP, DFL Group, LLC & University of Texas, Arlington, Landscape Architecture Program 80 72 On the cover: Centennial Center Park, Centennial, Colo. Landscape architecture design and planning by Design Concepts, CLA, Inc. See p. 56 10 Landscape Architect and Specifier News 80 Reconstruction of Historic Rockwell Park, Bristol, Conn. The 104-acre Rockwell Park was the first large property set aside for recreational development in Bristol. The park was originally designed by Boston landscape architect Sheffield Arnold, and constructed from 1914 to 1920. The park became one of the state's premier recreational destinations, and was included on the National Register of Historic Places in the late 1980s. —Landscape Architecture by Milone & MacBroom, Inc. There are 78 advertisements or product releases in this issue where the picture or ad has never before been published, what LASN calls "World Premieres." Look for the World Premiere icon in the Product Focus section (pages 30-39) and in red text the Ad Index (pages 145-146,149-150). Contact LASN for more information on how your new product can be in the World Premiere spotlight! (714) 979-LASN (5276) www.landscapeonline.com World Premiere