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

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

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

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

Studio HIP and our partner, the Trust for Public Land, are committed to both protecting the environment and fostering environmental stewardship in future generations. Learn about how we achieve this goal through our participatory design process in this article from the New York Times featuring the Trust for Public Land and our Design Principal Melissa Potter Ix: Getting Lessons on Water by Designing a Playground