British artist Alex Chinneck has designed knotted lampposts, a twisted telephone booth and a constricted postbox as playful public sculptures in Bristol, England. More about Alex Chinneck creates distorted street furniture to bring "surrealism into the public realm"
Ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris, design offices Concepto and Studio 5.5 have installed 350 street lights made from salvaged scaffolding poles and lampposts in the athletes' village. More about Paris 2024 Olympic Village features street lamps made from salvaged building materials
Berlin design student Tobias Trübenbacher has developed a lamp post with an integrated wind turbine that produces its own renewable energy and only lights up when needed. More about Papilio is a wind-powered street lamp that reduces light pollution
The Chinese city of Chengdu is planning to launch an illumination satellite disguised as an artificial moon within the next two years, as a replacement for its street lights. More about Chengdu plans to launch artificial moon to replace its street lights
Lighting designer Dean Skira explains how his Polesano street lamp for Delta Light can be used to light a multitude of different urban settings, in this movie Dezeen filmed for the Belgian lighting brand. More about Dean Skira's Polesano street lamp for Delta Light can create "all necessary forms of light"
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a tree-like street lamp with accompanying twig-shaped seating for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. More about Mathieu Lehanneur designs solar-powered Clover street furniture for Paris
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Stefan Borselius has designed a globe-shaped outdoor light for streets and parks. More about Borselius attempts to perfect traditional street lighting with Halo
Architecture studio Brut Deluxe has designed this year's Christmas lights in Madrid to work like a "flip book on an urban scale", taking spectators on a trip to the moon as they walk through the city (+ movie). More about Madrid installs moon-themed Christmas lights
This movie shows shoppers walking under and sitting beneath the Christmas lights installed above public crossings and squares in central Berlin by German studio Brut Deluxe. More about Berlin Christmas lights by Brut Deluxe
Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. More about Smart Highway by Studio Roosegaarde
Christmas shoppers in Madrid can stroll under glittering circles of LEDs designed by Italian architect Teresa Sapey (+ slideshow). More about Christmas lights in Madrid by Teresa Sapey
Dezeen Wire: Spanish lighting brand Santa & Cole has launched a lawsuit accusing the state of Qatar of copying street lighting devised for Barcelona by Catalan designer Beth Galí in 1996. More about Qatar accused of "counterfeiting 1000 street lamps"
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
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
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
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