Client: Children’s Discovery Museum
Location: Normal, Illinois, USA
At the Children’s Discovery Museum in Normal, Illinois, this Luckey Climber rises as a luminous centerpiece within the museum’s cylindrical atrium. Designed to capture attention and spark imagination, the structure features a beacon emanating up through the structure—drawing children into a vertical journey of color, light, and motion. Layered platforms spiral upward in a dynamic flow, encouraging exploration, coordination, and creativity. Visible from multiple floors, the climber acts as both a functional play environment and a sculptural focal point, inviting families to engage, gather, and discover. It’s a bold expression of play, designed to inspire from every angle.
Client: YMCA Andover Branch
Location: Andover, Kanasa, USA
The City of Andover has introduced not one, but two new Luckey Climbers—each a landmark in its own right. At the Andover YMCA, a dramatic 48-foot Wing Climber features internally lit LED panels and pays tribute to the region’s aviation heritage. Nearby, the 13th Street Sports Park is home to a spire-like structure that rises nearly 40 feet, also illuminated with dynamic lighting, inviting children to climb skyward and engage in imaginative, active play.
Client: Abundant Life Family Church
Location: Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA
At Abundant Living Family Church in Rancho Cucamonga, California, this Luckey Climber emerges like an ancient beast for children to discover and explore. With sweeping curves, layers of color, and a spine-like core, the structure feels alive—inviting young adventurers to climb, balance, and imagine their way through its sculptural form. Nestled within the church’s vibrant community space, the climber serves as both a gathering point and a gateway to creative play. Designed to spark curiosity and movement, this installation blends bold architectural presence with a sense of mythic discovery, encouraging children to connect, explore, and dream big in a space made just for them.
Client: Brookfield Properties Retail Group
Location: Ala Moana Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Designed as an architectural beacon in the world’s largest open-air shopping mall, this climber, inspired by the Devil's Purse balances sculptural elegance with tropical functionality. Its sweeping shade structure and organic curves attract families daily, offering a covered oasis where children play beneath swaying palms. The installation enhances the site’s identity as a community gathering space, reinforcing Ala Moana’s role as a retail and recreational hub.
Swirling devil purse
underwater fantasm
shade for you and me
Client: Museum of Solutions
Location: Mumbai, India
At the Museum of Solutions in Mumbai, this Luckey Climber transforms a complex challenge into a soaring centerpiece of play. The design was born out of logistical concerns of building a large-scale attraction on the 7th floor—where weight, access, and installation required creative problem-solving at every turn. In this case, form followed logistics, resulting in a sculptural structure that twists and lifts within the museum’s upper level. Light, efficient, and full of motion, the climber invites children into a vertical adventure that mirrors the museum’s spirit: inventive, adaptive, and always forward-thinking. A true celebration of design meeting purpose through play.
Client: Thanksgiving Point
Location: Lehi, Utah, USA
Made possible by the Bill and Pat Child Foundation, this striking new Luckey Climber at Curiosity Farms invites children to explore the wonders of science and technology through physical play. Soaring 40 feet high, the alfalfa-inspired structure serves as both a dynamic sculpture and a centerpiece for experiential learning in this innovative agricultural-themed environment.
Client: Aquarium at the Boardwalk
Location: Branson, Missouri
Surrounded by glowing tanks and marine life, this vibrant climber offers a surreal underwater experience. Illuminated with shifting LED lights, it serves as both play sculpture and immersive artwork. This installation anchors the visitor journey through the aquarium, offering young guests an active, tactile counterpoint to more passive exhibits and contributing significantly to dwell time and visitor satisfaction.
Client: Lancaster Science Factory
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
The Sky Bridge spans the ceiling! Upside down and asymmetrical, it uses a combination of geometry and gravity to maintain equilibrium inverting the typical performative relationships of bridges begging the question "why does this work?". The platforms feature a decorative film that presents as a mirror, but acts like a prism making the experience like being inside a deconstructed rainbow or computer generated photo filter. The topsides are grounded in aerial images of rural Pennsylvania.
At the Lancaster Science Factory in Pennsylvania, this Luckey Climber plays with perception as much as it does with physics. With forms that twist and balance in unexpected ways, visitors often ask if the climber may have been installed upside down. The intrigue is by design—the structure makes use of a symmetry in gravity for its stability, creating a sense of inversion and equilibrium that invites curiosity and movement. Suspended in the museum’s central space, the climber blends playful geometry with architectural precision, offering kids a unique opportunity to explore balance, motion, and the wonder of looking at things from a new angle.
Client: Liberty Science Center
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
The Infinity Climber at Liberty Science Center offers a compelling spatial metaphor for relativism and continuous transformation. With its twisting superstructure and multidirectional pathways, this sculptural installation embodies the principles of differential calculus—freezing all variables but one: the visitor’s journey. Guests actively shape their experience as they explore a fluid, looping network of paths that diverge, converge, and reform, encouraging both self-directed exploration and spatial problem-solving. Conceptual inspiration: suture curves.
Cantilevered orb
of twisted knots and sutures,
float over the edge.
Client: Irvine Company
Location: Irvine Spectrum Center, Irvine, California, USA
With its expansive footprint and interior pathways, this is one of our most immersive and accessible environments. The climber supports extended, self-directed exploration with areas large enough to accommodate wheelchairs and caregivers. Drawing structural inspiration from a classic sawhorse, the installation enhances foot traffic and brand identity within one of Southern California’s most successful lifestyle centers.
Walking worms wiggle
while wanderers whimsically
waltz, whirl, and wriggle!
Client: 13th Street Andover Sports Park
Location: Andover, Kansas, USA
The City of Andover has introduced not one, but two new Luckey Climbers—each a landmark in its own right. At the Andover YMCA, a dramatic 48-foot Wing Climber features internally lit LED panels and pays tribute to the region’s aviation heritage. Nearby, the 13th Street Sports Park is home to a spire-like structure that rises nearly 40 feet, also illuminated with dynamic lighting, inviting children to climb skyward and engage in imaginative, active play.
Client: Trapiche Museum Interactivo
Location: Los Mochis, Mexico
At Trapiche Museo Interactivo in Sinaloa, Mexico, La Medusa is a sculptural play environment inspired by the graceful motion of the Pacific jellyfish, a species native to nearby waters. This rare species of land-dwelling jellyfish enjoys the company of kids, inviting them to climb, explore, and engage with its flowing form. Six structural arms—three spiraling clockwise, three counter-clockwise—radiate from the core, creating a balanced yet energetic geometry. Overhead, a canopy featuring original artwork by painter Robert Reynolds provides both shade and visual richness. Seamlessly blending organic form, regional identity, and interactive design, this site-specific climber offers families an unforgettable, hands-on experience.
Client: Children’s Museum of La Crosse
Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
At The Children’s Museum of La Crosse in Wisconsin, the Luckey Climber rises as a whimsical vertical habitat, alive with the energy of imaginative play. Inspired by the natural world and the curious creatures that inhabit it, this structure invites young explorers into a forest of movement and discovery. Peering eyes—speckled, striped, and scaled—look up and down from every angle, evoking the feeling of being watched by playful companions as children climb and navigate its winding paths. With vibrant colors, layered platforms, and a design that responds to the museum’s dynamic interior, this climber transforms vertical space into a multi-sensory adventure rooted in curiosity and connection.
Client: Rochester Museum and Science Center
Location: Rochester, New York, USA
At the Rochester Museum & Science Center in New York, this Luckey Climber invites visitors into a multisensory exploration inspired by the dynamic ecosystem of Lake Erie. The structure features flowing, wave-like forms and cool tones that echo the lake’s temperature stratification. LED lights referencing water temperature and the varying life that exists at different elevations bring science to life through play. Designed to reflect the region’s natural beauty and environmental story, this climber offers an immersive experience where children can engage both mind and body—an ideal fusion of education, design, and imaginative discovery.
Photo credit: Jackie McGriff
Client: Family Museum
Location: Bettendorf, Iowa, USA
At The Family Museum in Bettendorf, Iowa, the Luckey Climber invites children into a playful journey through sky and soil. Suspended within the museum’s soaring atrium, this airy structure encourages young adventurers to explore the clouds on your way up, and the earth on your way down. Gently curving platforms rise in a vertical spiral, offering both challenge and wonder in equal measure. Inspired by the natural elements that shape a child’s imagination, this site-specific climber transforms vertical space into a dynamic landscape of motion, discovery, and fun—perfectly aligned with the museum’s mission to spark curiosity through hands-on learning.
Client: The Robins Nature Center at Maymont
Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Paramecium
Hydra Viridissima
Plankton, Diatom.
Client: Spark Children’s Museum of Rochester
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
Scallop forms a pearl
iridescence, teals and greens
blue-ringed octopus
Client: Brookfield Properties Retail Group
Location: Baybrook Mall, Friendswood, Texas, USA
Baybrook mall fun
going to get some ice cream
today is the day!
Client: Brookfield Properties Retail Group
Location: Whalers Village, Lahaina, Hawaii, USA
From the top of this Climber, you can see a stretch of beautiful Hawaiian landscape.
Client: Oxígeno Human Playground
Location: Heredia, Costa Rica
No human playground would be complete without a Luckey Climber!
Client: The Clay Center
Location: Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Rising over 50 feet, Ashton’s Climbing Sculpture at the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia, challenges young visitors to ascend through a spiraling architectural form inspired by movement and discovery. Laminated wood platforms feature composite imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, creating an awe-inspiring mosaic when viewed from below. This celestial imagery transforms the structure into a gateway to the cosmos, fostering curiosity and imagination. The installation complements the Clay Center’s broader cultural offerings, which include visual arts and live music, positioning it as both a learning environment and a community landmark.
Client: River Pointe Church
Location: Richmond, Texas, USA
The Rainbow Tower
River Pointe Church in summer
a popular spot!
Client: IKEA Centers
Location: Teply Stan, Russia
Located in Moscow, the Spacer Climber at IKEA MEGA Teply Stan draws visual and conceptual cues from Russian constructivism, atomic models, orbital systems, and science fiction iconography. Panels printed with Hubble Space Telescope imagery link artistic abstraction with empirical wonder, creating a multi-sensory play experience grounded in space exploration. The design bridges historic Russian visual culture with global scientific ambition, offering young visitors a chance to engage with space-themed content through active, physical play.
Valence shell of mesh
kids on platforms in orbit
joyous electrons
Client: CenterCal Properties, LLC
Location: The Veranda, Concord, California, USA
Woven metal arcs
six spokes of an umbrella
Christmas in Cali
Client: Knock Knock Children’s Museum
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
We wrote the book on climbers.
Client: Great Explorations Children’s Museum
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Sharks and schools of fish
tropical anemone
climb up through the sea
Client: City of Columbus
Location: The Commons, Columbus, Indiana, USA
Located within an indoor public park at Columbus Commons, this sculptural climber showcases the harmony between iconic play structures and their architectural context. Developed in collaboration with the project’s architect and landscape architect, the climber enhances the space with vibrant, city-branded platforms and dynamic elevation changes that echo the architectural rhythm of downtown Columbus. Generously sized platforms welcome multigenerational use, making this installation a standout civic feature in a city known for its design-forward infrastructure.
Client: W5 Science and Discovery Centre
Location: Belfast, Ireland
Suspended within a multi-story atrium, this dragon-inspired climber wends through space like a serpentine ribbon of steel and mesh. The structure challenges the rigidity of its surrounding architecture with curving forms that tactically intersect with existing structural supports. Serving as both artistic focal point and immersive play element, it enhances the museum’s vertical space with a bold integration of cultural symbolism and spatial ingenuity.
The Celtic Dragon
bounces off every wall
oh the Irish light!
Client: IKEA Centres
Location: Kazan, Russia
The instructions for this one were pretty confusing, but I think we did a good job.
Client: City of Greenwood
Location: Greenwood Community Center, Greenwood, Indiana, USA
This Climber politely parts way to make room for a spiral staircase!
Client: Westfield Group
Location: Topanga and The Village, Canoga Park, California, USA
Strategically positioned along a primary pedestrian corridor, this sculptural climber creates an intimate yet commanding presence within an open-air retail environment. Drawing inspiration from the protective relationship between parent and child, the design subtly mirrors the organic palette of the surrounding landscape while incorporating translucent materials that shimmer with natural light. As a landmark destination, the climber supports foot traffic and dwell time in this high-performing commercial district.
Client: The Franklin Institute
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The Neural Climber transforms the atrium of The Franklin Institute into an immersive exploration of human cognition. Inspired by Piranesi’s Carceri and the structure of the brain, this climber uses varying opacities of glass and lighting effects to create a constantly shifting play of reflection, color, and motion. The result is an architectural metaphor for intuition and contemplation—an installation that invites visitors to suspend their disbelief and move through the mind’s infinite pathways, engaging visitors of all ages in science, art, and play.
A webbing of mesh,
glass saucers, and kids, all glow
with chromatic light
Client: Formel Fun
Location: Bülach, Switzerland
At the heart of this light-filled commercial development, the Formel Fun climber energizes its environment with bold colors and geometric motion. Inspired by the bounce and trajectory of a rubber ball, the zigzag form activates vertical space while fostering dynamic engagement. Designed for visual impact and functional delight, this installation is a kinetic landmark in a family-focused destination.
Client: Lao Niu Children’s Discovery Center
Location: Beijing, China
Nestled in a historically significant courtyard, this climber coils with a form inspired by Chinese calligraphy and the taijitu symbol. Crafted in steel and punctuated with vibrantly stained platforms, the structure offers cultural resonance as well as functional engagement. Its dual-direction spirals represent balance and movement, inviting visitors to explore both the legacy of the site and the limitless motion of the climber.
Client: Gyeonggi Children’s Museum
Location: Yongin, South Korea
Standing at 53 feet, the Three Straw Climber is our tallest structure to date. Conceived as a child's rendering of the Burj Khalifa in bendy straws blending offering a deliberate architectural statement with spontaneity. Accessible from both ground level and an upper bridge, the climber promotes continuous flow and exploration as it toggles from object to environment, enticing the users to climb ever higher. Its visual language shifts from dense to airy, reinforcing the sensation of vertical ascension and activating the atrium with playful tension and kinetic energy.
Client: Providence Children’s Museum
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
This climber sports the first plastic platforms, the first canopy, and the first suspension system!
Client: Boston Children’s Museum
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Rising three stories through the museum’s iconic glass lobby, the New Balance Climb is a flowing vertical maze of sculptural platforms that invites strategic exploration. Children develop spatial reasoning and planning skills as they navigate upward, while adults track progress from adjacent walkways. As both landmark and interactive learning tool, the climber enhances the museum's core mission to empower children through free play and discovery.
Client: The Magic House Children’s Museum
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
This unique Climber is affixed to a wall, rather than a steel pipe structure.
Client: Children’s Museum of South Dakota
Location: Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Blue pillar of clouds
over rural landscapes
captured for climbing
Client: Parkview Group
Location: Parkview Green FangCaoDi, Beijing, China
Do the triple-twist!
Client: Scott Family Amazeum
Location: Betonville, Arkansas, USA
Arching over the ground floor of the Scott Family Amazeum, this climber bridges different exhibits!
Client: Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA
A tower of clouds
pillars of rainfall between
thunderous climbers
Client: Children’s Museum of Alamance County
Location: Graham, North Carolina, USA
“All the critics love you in New York”
-Prince
Client: Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Why swim in a pond when you can climb in it?
Client: The Magic House
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Don't tell anyone, but we grew this climber from a magic bean.
Client: Westfield Group
Location: Westfield Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
If you say "Asterix" three times fast, the Century City Climber will appear!
Client: The Foote School
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
One of two climbers at the Foote School in our very own New Haven, CT.
Client: Children’s Museum of Houston
Location: Houstson, Texas, USA
Everything's bigger in Texas... including the climbers!
Client: Delaware Children’s Museum
Location: Wilmington, Delaware, USA
This climber is formed from a spiral of platforms suspended from a custom mezzanine.
Client: Florida Aquarium
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
We built the Climber... The frogs showed up on their own.
Client: Focus Property Group
Location: Mountains Edge Regional Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Edge of the desert
red scallop in duplicate
Las Vegas mirage
Client: Glazer Children’s Museum
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
This Climber is suspended from the ceiling over a bridge.
Client: The Forum Carlsbad
Location: Carlsbad, California, USA
It's a hot one out there - put this Swizzle in your drink!
Client: Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum
Location: Seminole, Oklahoma, USA
There’s a dragon lurking beneath these platforms…
Client: Chuck E. Cheese
Location: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Tense negotiations with Mr. Cheese resulted in an adequate payment of pizza.
