Public spaces thrive on versatility, creativity, and connection. Pocket Blocks are designed to deliver all three — empowering communities to transform overlooked corners and empty stretches into dynamic social hubs. These modular benches and planters are more than just furniture; they’re tools for urban alchemy.
With a family of interconnecting forms — including rectangles, squares, wavy blocks, hemispheres, and backrests — Pocket Blocks invite endless possibilities for customization. Group them, line them, curve them. Create cozy nooks, flowing benches, or expansive statement gathering spots. Urban life is dynamic — your furniture should be, too. With Pocket Blocks, every space can be a stage for connection, creativity, and culture.
"Hoi polloi" is an Ancient Greek phrase meaning "the many" or "the masses." This configuration is perfect for seating "the many" all at once in common spaces – as a room centrepiece or placed strategically around open exteriors. Extend it by adding more rectangle blocks in the centre to create an elegant urban space for even more people.
Get wavy with our Urban Noodle: a fun, dynamic seating configuration that offers many creative and eye-catching arrangements. Make the noodle as long or short as you want, play with the angle of the segments, or break it up to sprinkle your noodles anywhere around your space.
Easily add a standout looking seating system anywhere to your spaces with our Pocket Block Pixel configuration, giving you the freedom to have extended, multiple pops of colour or single, standalone pieces. This configuration is a perfect compliment to any public seating area – connect multiple and pair with other shapes using rectangles and squares for a pixelated dreamland in your plaza or park.
This fun and iconic system of configurations are perfect centrepieces for any public space. Add some whimsy with colourful hearts, flowers, and clouds to your locations for a playful photographic moment, or get creative with the number of petals to make your own silhouettes.
Studio Meanwhile and City Blocks has the privilege of working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō (Sto:lo), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. While this is our local home, we recognize that our work extends into the global realm of public space and has an impact on contested, politicised lands that have been and continue to be stewarded by many different and distinct local groups. It is our intention to help elevate these spaces in respectful and honourable collaboration with those who inhabit them, to further our mission to make public space available and accessible, for all people.
