East London designer Roger Arquer has made a bench out of materials he salvaged from his local hardware shop before it closed down, which he is contributing to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. More about General Woodwork Bench by Roger Arquer for the Stepney Green Design Collection
London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). More about Bench Years by Established & Sons at the V&A museum
Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad's street furniture made from upturned bakers' crates forms part of an exhibition opening this evening at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. More about Church Street Bench by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
Stockholm 2012: these outdoor chairs by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand are joined together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave. More about Share by Thomas Bernstrand for Nola
Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting the vernacular street-lighting of different cities around the world. More about Lights of the City by Manuel Alvarez Diestro
Architects Plasma Studio of London, Beijing and Bolzano have designed this LED street lamp in collaboration with lighting company ewo. More about Tagliente by Plasma Studio and ewo
These mirrored benches by Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio sit beneath cherry trees at the Towada Art Centre in Japan. More about In Flakes by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Designers Studio Weave have installed a meandering 324 metre-long bench on the seafront at Littlehampton in the UK. More about The Longest Bench by Studio Weave
JDS Architects have designed a street lamp for Italian brand Ewo that allows light to escape through perforations in its stem. More about Alphabet City Lights by JDS Architects
Rocker-Lange Architects of Boston and Hong Kong are exhibiting a system for creating endlessly variable, site-specific street furniture as part of the Hong Kong & Shenzhen bi-city biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. More about Urban Adapter by Rocker-Lange Architects
Designers StokkeAustad presented a cantilevered bench with a concrete base at an exhibition called Norwegian Prototypes during the London Design Festival last month. More about Cantilevered bench by StokkeAustad
Danish designers Komplot have created a set of concrete furniture for Swedish brand Nola. More about Concrete Things by Komplot for Nola
Landscape architect Anouk Vogel and architect Johan Selbing have won a competition to design new lighting and furniture for the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More about Vondel Verses by Anouk Vogel and Johan Selbing
More from h2o Architectes: h2o bench is a modular furniture system designed for the main square of Valenciennes in northern France. More about h2o bench by h2o Architectes
Our friends at Hungarian architecture and design site hg.hu have posted a series of images of Ross Lovegrove's Solar Tree solar-powered street light being installed in Vienna, prior to the official opening tonight. More about Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove 2