Creative agency Steep Learning Group wanted to emulate "a giant doughnut outside a doughnut shop" when creating a playful 2.5-metre-tall sculpture of a pair of shorts to act as the mascot for clothing brand Gramicci's east London store. More about Gramicci store in east London revolves around jumbo pair of stripy shorts
A bouldering wall in this São Paulo apartment designed by Nati Minas & Studio and Gabriela Mestriner allows a sports-loving couple to scale their double-height living room. More about Nati Minas & Studio and Gabriela Mestriner install climbing wall inside São Paulo apartment
Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a climbing centre in a small riverside town in Norway, using angular wooden walls to help mimic the feeling of being in a natural cave. More about Snøhetta creates cavernous timber climbing centre in Norway
Interior design studio Deferrari+Modesti renovated a house in Prato, Italy, adding a blue staircase that doubles as a climbing wall for its sporty owners. More about Deferrari+Modesti designs rock climbing-themed staircase for villa in Tuscany
Brightly coloured hand and foot holds form climbing routes across turquoise walls at this bouldering centre, set inside an industrial building in Minneapolis. More about Faceted structures and colourful holds form climbing walls in Minneapolis bouldering gym
This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. More about Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock
A climbing wall, a study and a bedroom are all contained within this Brisbane house extension, designed by Phorm Architecture + Design to be reminiscent of a treehouse. More about Extremely pointed garden room features a treehouse-like design and a climbing wall
Children can nestle into yellow alcoves and pull wooden furniture out of the walls at this school in Madrid by Rica Studio, which uses play to teach the English language. More about Walls with integrated furniture and yellow nooks encourage play in Madrid school
Visitors to Bompas & Parr's Grope Mountain climbing wall clamber up "sensual holds" shaped like breasts and penises. More about Bompas & Parr's Grope Mountain is an erotic take on the climbing wall
A climbing wall covers one side of this small mobile home by American company Tiny Heirloom. More about Tiny Heirloom micro cabin boasts spilt-level living space and a climbing wall
London Design Festival 2016: Patternity has added a graphic climbing wall adorned with monochrome contours to the basement gym inside east London's Ace Hotel (+ slideshow). More about Guests at London's Ace Hotel can now scale a Patternity-designed climbing wall
The jagged form of this climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is covered in grey, brown and white shingles that reference a snow-covered mountain behind the building (+ slideshow). More about Norwegian climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter resembles a snow-capped mountain
A climbing wall runs up one side of this corrugated metal-clad house in Jackson, Wyoming, by local architecture firm Carney Logan Burke (+ slideshow). More about Climbing wall provides roof access at Cache Creek Residence by Carney Logan Burke
Mazes, slides, nets, fireman's poles and climbing walls all feature inside this Copenhagen community centre, designed by architecture studios MVRDV and Adept to encourage adults to be more active (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV and Adept team up on community centre that invites grownups to play
One corner of this aluminium-clad children's centre in Copenhagen by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup dips down to let sunlight pass into a courtyard behind. More about Children's centre with a dipping roof by Dorte Mandrup encloses a Copenhagen courtyard
Architects João Quintela and Tim Simon have built a pavilion inside a climbing centre in Lisbon, providing a cafe and reception space that visitors can also scramble over (+ slideshow). More about Visitors to Lisbon's Vertigo Climbing Center can clamber on the cafe
Amsterdam office NL Architects added angular windows to the facade of this sports centre in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, to frame views of three climbing walls inside (+ slideshow). More about Cave-like apertures frame climbing walls at NL Architects' Spordtgebouw sports centre
Visitors to this lakeside concrete tower in the Netherlands can scale its walls, jog up to an observation deck on its roof, or sail a zip wire across the water from a balcony (+ slideshow). More about Ateliereen Architecten's concrete observation tower features a climbing wall and zip line
The rippled aluminium cladding of this climbing centre in northern Italy is dotted with tiny perforations that allow the walls to become see-through after dark (+ slideshow). More about Vertikale Kletterhalle Brixen by Stadtlabor and Wolfgang Meraner
Slideshow: stairs might be perfectly practical but moving from room to room via a skateboard, slide or climbing wall is far more exciting so here's a roundup of homes and offices from the pages of Dezeen that feature extreme ways of getting around. More about Stairs are so last year