Californian design studio PlayLab Inc has constructed a massive skateable pyramid in Downtown Los Angeles in collaboration with footwear brand Vans.
The bright-yellow skate ramp was placed between two buildings in an industrial district near the LA River as part of the city's art week ? centred around the Frieze, Felix and Spring/Break art fairs.
PlayLab Inc and Sterling Ruby have created a skateable installation in Downtown LA
PlayLab Inc designed the installation in collaboration with American artist Sterling Ruby to mark the release of his Clash the Wall skate shoe for Vans.
The 12-foot-tall (3.5 metres) split-level pyramid was constructed from materials gathered from previous skate installations built by PlayLab Inc, such as the plexiglass skate ramp the studio created for Vans during Paris Fashion Week Mens last summer. It has a split-level pyramidal form and a large backing wall
Among the salvaged materials were scaffolding and Skatelite ? a durable paper composite used for the surface of many skateboarding ramps, which in this case was painted a bright neon yellow. The design was meant to emulate the "hills" found in many California skateparks.
"We wanted to take an iconic form in skate culture, the hill, and interpret it into a surreal sculpture," PlayLab cofounder Archie Lee Coates IV told Dezeen.
"At the center of the installation is a pyramid, split and shifted to create angles and edges for skaters to play off of," he added. "T...