Urban Furniture
Street-level design and architecture that shapes public spaces through functional and sculptural objects.
1Y Architects Stacks Red Plastic Stools into a Tapering Tower for Foshan's Creative Week
In Foshan, China, a 36 m² installation turns the humble Cantonese red plastic stool into a steel-framed tower you can sit beneath and look up through.
OUT Architecture Turns a Coffee Cup Stain into a Broken Ring of Benches on a London Market Corner
A broken ring of steel and cork benches outside an Aldgate café reclaims an overlooked Petticoat Lane corner for the London Festival of Architecture 2026.
Life line of a city
A city has it's own vibration and essence. This life of the city affects it's citizen in a subconsciousness matter. Through this symbiosis within city and urban furniture, a new aspect of life can be given to the city and it's citizens. Our aim is to reveal the life of the city to it's citizens.
Hello Wood Stacks a Pink Timber Food Hall, Beer Garden and Tree Houses onto a Former Zürich Freight Yard
On an abandoned rail yard in Zürich West, a three-level CLT complex of terraces, tree houses and blue steel stairs turns street food into civic theatre.
Studio NOR Revives Beijing's 798·751 Train Street with a Modular Kit of Steel Frames and Converted Carriages
In Beijing's 798·751 Park, a former coal yard and rail terminus regains public life through lightweight steel pavilions and retrofitted train carriages.
Leonetti Piemonte Architecture Threads a Slide and Timber Tribunes Through SumUp's Offices in Brazil
In Brazil, a 6,600 m² fit-out for SumUp links floors with stairs, a fiberglass slide and stepped seating, treating circulation as the workplace.
cloud
Our proposition is to create city life that spontaneously are generated by human behavior in modern city landscapes. It?s like clouds that appear and disappear Incessantly. This furniture is not perceived as furniture named bench or parasol. People spontaneously sit here and naturally get together under the shade. The way how to use this furniture depends
faro
Faro was born from the idea that public lighting can become much more than a simple urban function: a meeting point, a shared space, a small center for community life.
BLOOMING
The concept of BLOOMING is to create a magic moment in the busy everyday urban life. With a little bit of collaboration, people can achieve the ultimate special moment that reminds us of the beauty and happiness of exploring the city and the people around us, like unforgettable memories of flowers blooming together at the same time.
URBAN HAMMOCK
The Urban Hammock is a project of sustainable urban furniture.Both materials and structural solutions meet the highest requirements of the modern design direction of urban spaces. The furniture is versatile and adapted for a wide audience.The project defines a new form of idyllic relaxation in the city, combining elements of a bench, hammock and flower pot.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
20 Most Popular Furniture Design Projects of 2025
Modular street systems, parametric benches, and insect hotels: the furniture design projects that captivated architects on uni.xyz in 2025.
Vendor: Modular Urban Furniture That Keeps Street Sellers on the Promenade
A system of recycled plastic panels, aluminum frames, and a booking app designed to protect coastal vending culture in Tricity, Poland.
U+ CHARGE: MAKE URBAN SPACE ALIVE
?U+Charge? is a set of urban furniture module designed for public squares in Boston area which provides people with reconfigurable street benches equipped with solar charge stations.
Cloud: Triangulated Urban Furniture That Invites Spontaneous Gathering
Steel pipes and woven nylon wires form floating modular canopies that activate forgotten pockets of public space across the city.
Deja-vu
Gray space, a medium of traditional cultural activities. In Chengdu, using a new furniture-scale medium to reform the gray space created by the squeezing of old and modern cities to activate the possibility of traditional cultural activities.
Ti_Temporary Identity
Through a proposal for Pilastro district in Bologna, it is define a strategy to ease the interventions on the existing building stock by means of the adoption of a temporary architecture, prototype of a new concept of urbanity, effective even for other purposes as well as the redevelopment of existing buildings and suitable for different application contexts
Urban Furniture challenging Urban Flooding
The primary concept behind the Urbanscape:symbiosis proposal for the city of Guwahati, Assam, India is to cater to the rising concern of flooding all over the city with the increase in built structures elevating the hardscape percentage leading to compromise on the benefits and positives of the softscapes and greenery in catering to flooding.
Delightful presentation, a wonderfully illustrated narrative. This takes on the qualities of swan boats, bumper cars, and with it some skepticism on logistics one can't argue that the experience of floating, paddling, docking and redocking would be fun activity. The nature of interiors suggested here is digital, which is limiting, maybe show a variety to illustrate the excitement of exploring.... ( IE one soft and squishy, one thick/scratchy with hay bails etc...). The aspect of boarding at the edge, and traversing, connecting to others, traveling between comes late, could be described in a comic book form. Thanks, memorable.