If you were to Google "hostile architecture," you would see a picture of a bench that looks like that,' said Rachwal, Labrador Friendship Centre's youth programs manager, referring to an urban ...

Goodbye benches, hello leaning rails ... Reacting to a photo of the newly installed leaning rail, some called it “hostile architecture” that is intended to deter the homeless while ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. In metro areas today, park benches are becoming an endangered species. Hostile architecture is the name urban engineers give to public space designs that ...

“Hostile benches” installed in a public park in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward in March caused a stir on social media, but such equipment is nothing. These benches have various ways to discourage ...

Construction workers for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority were photographed removing a bench on the station’s platform and replacing it with a curving metal structure.