U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

Several colourful U-Build skateboards are stacked upright next to a wooden barrier, with six helmets—pink, blue, and black—lined up on top. The scene is outdoors on a paved street.

U-Build Skate Street, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

U-Build Skate Street. Mykola Romanovsky, 2025.

Pop-Up “Skate Street”, Centre Stage 2025

In September 2025 we worked with HemingwayDesign to be a part of Centre Stage, a government-funded, one-day community event that burst into life on Richmond’s George Street and Whittaker Square. Once again our Box Library sprang into action to transform public space into a hub of interaction, creativity and culture.

The U-Build team were there all day on September 13th, to help ‘Build your own street furniture’ as part of the wider multi-arts festival. Centre Stage filled the heart of the town with live music, theatre, performance, art, workshops, markets. We contributed an interactive plywood skate park for young people and their families to play with, build, create, adapt and channel their imagination.

A red U-Build sign titled Skate Street provides safety guidelines and instructions for using drift trick sculptures, with people and a busy street visible in the background at night.

HemingwayDesign have been working with the London Borough of Richmond to begin turning the Town Centre Vision and Activation Plan into reality. Curated and produced by both parties, Centre Stage Richmond was one of the very first steps in putting that plan into action, and the inaugural event showed how the vision can be experienced and enjoyed by locals on the ground.

If you have a project in mind that could be supported by our U-Build Box Library, please enquire via our website or send us an email.