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French designer, Mathieu Lehanneur launched his first solar-powered street furniture - 'Clover'

Furniture designer Frank Chou focuses on the fusion between contemporary design and innovation with great emphasis on the balance of the Eastern and Western cultures. Check him out here and leave us your views…

Various designers have customized street furniture to diverse ideologies. Check out this whimsical and playful concept in San Francisco and leave us your feedback…

Crafting out a language that is minimalist and arresting is an art that Note Design Studio seems to have mastered. Check out their recent outing at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and tell us what you think of their new designs…

The Urban Conga crafts a community-designed, programmable space in South Baltimore in response to the neighbourhood's struggles with drug abuse, gun violence, and pollution, aiming to provide a sanctuary for reflection, conversation, and hope.

A perspective-localized technique based on the pure geometry of a circle anoints an urban piece of furniture - a public art-architectural installation at this year's Lively Architectural Festival in France. Leave us your inputs…

Studio Civiliti orchestrates Place Monique-Mercure - the new urban square just outside the art deco celebrated Outremont theatre in Montreal transforming a wide pavement into a meeting place for everyone, while celebrating the Outremont theatre as a major architectural landmark. This is part of the city's revitalisation program, where it is taking every opportunity to transform its neighbourhoods, widening its sidewalks, and turning street intersections into small gathering spaces or mini gardens.

Following the principles of street furniture design, Bouroullec Brothers design a mobile kiosk for Parisian public engagement. Check it out and leave us your views…

Metaform architects design a new collective residential typology that mitigates common factors that plague box-like proximal multi-storey urban dwellings. Check out the story and leave us your inputs...

Inspired by a kids' game of broken telephone, where the inputs and outputs don't always exactly match, Hello, Hello is a poetic messaging system inside a luminescent arch that turns peoples' voices into a lyrical spectacle. Created by Daily tous les jours, an emergent field of practice that combines interactive art, storytelling, performance, and urban design to create unexpected experiences that bring strangers together in a spirit of play, cooperation, and creativity, the permanent public art installation is part of a broader vision for "Joy Experiments" - interventions designed to foster community through play. 

Public art projects are manned with an intention of eliciting some cultural feedback and significant finsings in the ethos of a city and its peple. Is this truly accomplished? Check out Baptiste Debombourg's work at Nantes and leaev us your views…