Eric McMillan, Canadian, born 1942 in Sheffield, industrial designer
Formed a design group with Rose Duell and Len Rydahl.
In 1968, McMillan joined the design team planning Ontario Place, a theme park in Toronto (the section he designed opend 1971). He then became chief designer of the entire project. 1972 opend „Children’s Village“, 1973 „Water Play“.
His work introduced ideas like the ball crawl (ball pit), net climb, punch bag forest, birdie glide, roller slide, cave crawl. He has been referred to as “The father of soft play”.
In 1975 together with partners Rosemarie Duell and Len Rydahl he formed a design partnership and went on to design play attractions around the world. “Captain Kid’s” at SeaWorld of Ohio was the first project built in the U.S. in 1975. His list of projects include: “Whale of a Time World” San Vallejo, California 1979; „Sesame Place“, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1980; “Parc de la Villette” Paris, France 1984; “Space Science Park” (United States Space Camp) Huntsville, Alabama 1984; “Children’s Museum Waterfront Attraction”, Boston, Massachusetts 1987; ‘‘Founders Park’’ Nelson, New Zealand, 1987; “Eureka!” Halifax England, 1988; and many other projects including work at World Expos’ 1967, 1976, 1984, 1986 .
source
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McMillan
– ericmcmillandesidner.com
posted on September 2, 2013.
Sesame Place, Philadelphia PA
Eric McMillan: Sesame Place, Philadelphia
above: Captain Kid’s World, Ohio below: Elves’s Island, Ontario
Eric McMillan: Captain Kid’s World, Ohio
