Urban furniture often goes unnoticed, yet it is an essential landscape feature which can lift a park, garden or square from obscurity, turning them into lively and interactive meeting places and thoroughfares, tandsca e Design: Urban Furniture features over 30 international projects, ranging from the classic park bench and lamppost to innovative and eye-catching designs and solutions. This collection will interest architects and urban planners and is sure to convert more than one reader into an avid furniture-spotter.

URBAN COMFORT (Furniture)

  Train Stations D-Line - Despang Architekten

  Xurret System & Pep- Abalos & Herreros, Escofet

  Pink Bench - Gonzalez Haase/AAS

  Pause! - NIP Pavsage

  Maggie Millennium Bench - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

  NYSE & BPC Streetscapes - Rogers Marvel Architects

  Centreport Windscreens - Wraight & Associates

  (Parenthesis) -ustin Dube-Fahmy & Hubert Pelletier

  P+R Sloterdijk & Zeeburg- Rowin Petersma, Thomas Elshuis

COMMON GROUND (Squares & Open Spaces)

  Urban Lounge - Carlos Martinez, Pipilotti Rist

  Tower Hill Square - Stanton Williams

  Town Hall Square - Janet Rosenberg & Associates

  Water Culture Square - Turenscape

  Patio Garden Cirqada - Delta Vorm Groep

  Boulevar Dreieich - Topotek 1

  De Admiraal- D~lta Vorm Groep

  Twin Tower Court . Querkraft

  Finsbury Avenue Square - Maurice Brill Lighting Design

PATCH OF GREEN (Parks & Gardens)

  Castle Park - Topotek 1

  Locomotives Park - Fauteux et Associes

  Nou Barris Park - Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes

  City Park Beja - Santa Rita Arquitectos

  Grammont Park -Agence Concepto

MISSING LINK (Bridges)

  Rolling Bridge - Heatherwick Studio

  Webb Bridge - Denton Corker Marshall, Robert Owen

  Memorial Pedestrian Bridge- 3LHD

  Craigieburn Bypass - Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Robert Owen

  Lookout Point Aurland - Saunders & Wilhelmsen Arkitektur