We were excited to see national attention recently focused on the value of child-centered playground design. The story highlights a design approach that has been at the heart of Studio HIP's Community Schoolyard work for more than 20 years—engaging students as active participants in creating greener, healthier, and more resilient places for learning and play. Photo by NYTimes A recent feature in the New York Times highlighted something we've known for years: when children are

The AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently revealed the winners of the 2026 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards. These awards honor outstanding design achievements in transportation and infrastructure architecture across the United States. Studio HIP received a Special Citation Award in Open Space for their work on the PS 306 Climate Adaptive Schoolyard in the South Bronx. This recognition highlights the growing importan

NEWBURGH, NY — City leaders this week took a key step toward the creation of a special memorial and burial site for African Americans from the 1800s whose remains were rediscovered 17 years ago. The City Council on Dec. 8 voted to establish a dedicated capital reserve fund to finance the new African American Burial Ground Memorial and Reinterment Area in Downing Park. The $1.9M allocation of funds will enable the memorial site, designed by Studio HIP and PUSH Studio, to be co

PS 38K Community Playground is featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine's Behind the Design series

The New York City Playground Program/Green Community Schoolyards is featured in this article by World Resources Institute.

Studio HIPs work highlighted in NYC Mayor's Report

Green Community Schoolyards project recognized as a 2023-2024 finalist for the WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities, celebrating its transformative impact on schoolyard spaces.

Studio HIP's design for the Downing Park African American Memorial site is featured in Hudson Valley Times

Our custom-designed green roof gazebo and work on PS 107X in the Bronx was featured in a New York Times story, 9 Ways to Stay Shaded on a Sweltering Day in New York City: The city is preparing for extreme heat by introducing new methods to keep out of the sun and expanding on those more tried and true. Designed as part of our site furnishing tool box for the Trust for Public Land's NYC Playgrounds Program, the gazebo is an all steel structure with backpack hooks on the posts

ASLA Elevates 27 Members to the Council of Fellows The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has elevated 27 members as ASLA...

We are delighted to see our project, PS 152K featured on the cover of Landscape Architect and Specifier News in the September 2021 playgrounds issue. Writen by Jennifer Nitzky, this article highlights the participatory process allowing the students to become the designers and address the needs of the entire community. As part of the Trust for Public Land (TPL) NYC Playground Program, This project was envisioned to offer a ray of hope and a place of respite through the restora

Studio HIP is proud to annouce that the PS 152K Community Playground has won an Honor Award for Community Impact from the American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter (ASLA-NY). Organized by the ASLA-NY Chapter Awards Committee, the Design Awards bolster local visibility, acknowledge and promote the work of the Chapter’s membership, and publicly recognize excellence in the practice of landscape architecture. Juried by an interdisciplinary team of professionals f

The Boston Globe took a look at the participatory design process used in the development of a new playground by Studio HIP in...

It was announced that Studio HIP will be one of the recipients of an Honor Award from the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for "The Art of Collaboration: Bringing Landscape Architecture into the Classroom." Get the details here: ASLA-NY announces its 2019 Design Award winners

Ground was broken at PS 221Q The North Hills School in Little Neck, Queens. The project is a collaboration between Studio HIP, the Trust...

Read all about the new playground at PS 19M in Manhattan's East Village: Students help to design multipurpose play yards

Learn about the new playground at 250Q in Flushing here: Work Begins on Student-Designed Playground in Flushing

Ground was broken on a new playground at PS 33M in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Read about the project from Studio HIP here:...

Architectural Digest took a look at Studio HIP's exciting work at IS 366X in the Bronx. Read all about it here: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-playground-in-the-bronx-just-got-an-impressive-makeover