Over the past 70 years skateboarding has gone from fringe to mainstream. Iain Borden, author of Skateboarding and the City, selects 11 skateparks that highlight the key aspects of the movement's culture. More
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has added four designs to a collection of limited-edition skateboard decks, sold at the Museum of Modern Art Design Store in New York, which are covered in her signature polka dots. More
We've created a new Pinterest board full of the best design related to skateboarding, featuring a ramp floating on a lake, IKEA's first skateboard and the recently installed bowl inside the Supreme store in Brooklyn. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
New York firm Neil Logan Architect has retrofitted a warehouse in the city for streetwear brand Supreme, and put a free-standing skate bowl in the back. More
IKEA has launched its first skateboard, as part of a series of furniture and clothing items influenced by street culture in Southern California. More
Employees of streetwear brand Vans can skateboard around the company's new Southern California headquarters by US design agency Rapt Studio. More
Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper. More
A Silicon Valley inventor has created a vehicle that looks like a skateboard balanced on a single wheel, and allows users to "surf on land" (+ movie). More
Tech company Arx Pax has worked with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to create a slimmed-down design for its second Hendo hoverboard, released today to mark the exact date travelled to in 1980s sci-fi film Back to the Future II. More
Japanese car brand Lexus has revealed its eagerly anticipated hoverboard, which uses magnetic fields to carry its rider without touching the ground (+ movie). More
British architect Guy Hollaway has unveiled plans for the "world's first" purpose-built multi-storey skatepark, which he says will help prevent young people from moving away from a sleepy British seaside town (+ slideshow). More
News: Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has triumphed in a competition to design a street sports facility in and around a crumbling train engine roundhouse in Esbjerg, south-west Denmark (+ slideshow). More
News: The Rom Skatepark in east London has become the first European facility of its kind to be awarded protected status (+ slideshow). More
Danish studios CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke have created an igloo-shaped street sports centre and a skate park on the harbour front of Haderslev, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
Selfridges has collaborated with mobile phone company HTC to create a temporary 1,700 square metre skatepark replete with ramps, rails, benches and banks, in the middle of London's West End. More
This skateboarding ramp floating over the clear waters of Lake Tahoe was put together in just four days by design-and-build team Jerry Blohm and Jeff King for Californian skater Bob Burnquist (+ slideshow). More
We spotted this stair-negotiating skateboard at ShowRCA 2012 and the accompanying movie became one of our most watched. One year on, its designer Po-Chih Lai has made a new film, updated the design and launched it on Kickstarter (+ movie). More
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More
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
A few tons of concrete was all professional skateboarder Philipp Schuster needed to turn this derelict hunting lodge in Salzburg, Austria, into an indoor skate park. More