Artist Raphaël Zarka has collaborated with local architect Jean-Benoît Vétillard to create a horseshoe-shaped skatepark defined by bold colours in Paris. Commissioned by art museum Centre Pompidou and supported by sportswear brand Nike, the Cycloid Piazza skatepark is located in Centre Pompidou's square and functions as a public sculpture for both...

Mexican design studio Manufactura and New York studio BioMatters have created 3D-printed objects using a composite consisting mainly of shells from industrial lobstering byproducts in Maine. During a residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, the two studios zeroed in on the state's significant lobster production and the waste material...

Dezeen Showroom: Canadian furniture company Allseating has launched an ergonomic office chair named Dart, which features horizontal stitching for additional back support. Intended to have a sleek appearance suited to a variety of meeting spaces, the Dart office chair has an upholstered seat and backrest placed atop a height-adjustable base. Dart is...

Northumbria University graduate Amelia Cook has taken home the PriestmanGoode award at this year's New Designers showcase for developing a food container that allows hikers to preserve and eat home-cooked meals in the wild. The Savour kit enables food to be cooked, dehydrated, transported and served in one dish, offering an alternative to the limited...

Architecture studio Sukchulmok has created the cone-shaped Chul-02 Cone Stool to showcase the "sharp and mechanical form of steel". The piece is composed of three connected components – each featuring conical tops held up by pointed legs that can be inserted into the ground. The stool is composed of three identical conical components "These [three...

Architect Suchi Reddy has created an installation in a recently restored train station in Detroit that responds to the words spoken into microphones with colourful LED lights. Me + You consists of a circle of modules with microphones surrounded by LED screens set up in the middle of the southern concourse of the Michigan Central, which was converted...