Street Furniture
Street furniture design encompasses public seating, shelters, and installations that shape urban spaces and community interaction.
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.
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.
Sabella Arquitetura Sculpts a 1,200 m² Weekend House Around a Tomie Ohtake Sculpture in São Paulo
Two perpendicular volumes form an L-shaped residence in Quinta da Baroneza where art, landscape, and steel structure merge on a single level.
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.
Offenbach Marktplatz Transportation Hub by Just Architekten GmbH: A Poetic Urban Gesture
Sculptural bus stop at Offenbach Marktplatz featuring leafy green canopy, steel structure, wooden benches, seamless urban integration, inviting seating, day-night ambiance.
Design Chair for Kids at Home: A Legless, Pattern-Born Seat Scaled to Children Aged 2 to 7
A grounded, loop-patterned chair built from child ergonomics, where safety comes from form and the seat doubles as play surface and spatial anchor.
Urban Criss: A Modular Bench System That Turns Public Seating Into Urban Landscape
A runner-up at Urbanscape 2018, Urban Criss bends plywood and steel into modular seats scaled for solitude, couples and groups in shared public space.
Life Stage: Modular Urban Furniture Reactivates a Dormant Lakefront in Guangzhou
Five timber furniture modules turn an underused university lake into a continuous loop of rest, play, and social exchange after dark.
