As the material continues to grow in popularity, we take a look at mass-timber apartments, academic buildings and even an Apple Store made with cross-laminated timber and glulam, for our 2025 Review. More about The top 10 mass-timber buildings of 2025
Merry Christmas! We'll be back tomorrow – in the meantime read our Review of 2025. More about Merry Christmas from Dezeen!
Canadian studio 5468796 Architecture has designed the concrete and stucco-clad Arthur Residence that is closed off from the street but opens up inside, offering a "thoughtful alternative" to the norm. More about 5468796 Architecture creates house for "modest sanctuary" in Saskatchewan
Local studio Andreas Schüring Architekten has completed Brick to Light, the renovation of a former barracks house in Germany that has transformed its mansard roof into a "glass lantern". More about "Glass lantern" roof tops barracks house conversion in Germany by Andreas Schüring Architekten
Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has unveiled the Maison Louis Vuitton Sanlitun in Beijing, with a translucent and fluid form that is "simultaneously a rock and a dress". More about Jun Aoki references translucent dress for colour-shifting Louis Vuitton flagship
For the latest in our review of 2025, we explore the best hotel designs of the year – from a surrealist hotel by Philippe Starck to an Oaxaca hotel modelled on pre-Hispanic pyramids. More about The top 10 hotels of 2025
Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a three-storey Manhattan Beach house that capitalises on views and indoor-outdoor living while avoiding standard tactics used in the area's housing stock. More about Brooks + Scarpa breaks with local convention at Alma Switch House in California
Architecture studios Herzog & de Meuron and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects have released designs for a residential skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan that will contain "100 per cent affordable" apartments and a recreation centre. More about Herzog & de Meuron designs skyscraper for "innovative housing solutions" in New York
Student architectural practice Rabagast Studio has completed Watercave, a floating timber sauna on a small pontoon in a Norwegian lake. More about Rabagast Studio floats timber sauna atop lake in rural Norway
As the holidays approach, we take a look at houses from India to Scotland that would be ideal places to spend the vacation in for the latest roundup in our 2025 Review. More about The top 10 holiday homes of 2025
Design and architecture students from Lebanon have tackled some of the biggest challenges facing their country in the exhibition Design in Conflict, held in Beirut's notorious abandoned Burj El Murr skyscraper. More about Lebanese students create drone noise-blocking headphones and more designs for life under conflict
Local firm Estúdio Leonardo Zanatta has completed a white pavilion with a large sloped roof for commercial activities and cultural events in São Paulo, Brazil. More about Estúdio Leonardo Zanatta gives São Paulo pavilion "harp-like" form
Chinese studio ZAO/standardarchitecture has created the Xiao Feng Art Museum in Hangzhou, housing galleries within an angular concrete form that loops around a central courtyard. More about ZAO/standardarchitecture snakes concrete art gallery around courtyard in China
Designer Ab Rogers has created a colourful fold-out architecture book for children that showcases the work and ethos of his late father, the British architect Richard Rogers. More about Richard Rogers book teaches kids "the role of buildings in their lives"
Crisp white surfaces contrast exposed stone walls at The Avber House, a traditional homestead in Slovenia renovated by local architecture studio OFIS Arhitekti. More about OFIS Arhitekti renovates stone house in Slovenia to feel "ancient and alive"
Brazilian studio Cornetta Arquitetura has designed a concrete and wood, prefabricated vacation house to provide "a lesson in conservation" in the Atlantic Forest outside of São Paulo. More about Cornetta Arquitetura immerses "contemporary cabin" in Brazilian forest
Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto has renovated the third floor of Shanghai's Power Station of Art museum, transforming it into an art library named Espace Gabrielle Chanel. More about Kazunari Sakamoto creates art library in Shanghai museum for Chanel
From a reflective spiral staircase rising in a museum to an enclosed staircase puncturing the roof of a house, we continue our Review of 2025 with 10 of this year's best staircases. More about The top 10 staircases of 2025
Check out the best 2025 exhibitions from Dezeen Events Guide, including Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births, which examines the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design. More about The 10 best architecture and design exhibitions of 2025
Architecture studio Rever & Drage has expanded a traditional red-painted house in Raelingen, Norway, adding two volumes linked with green spaces. More about Rever & Drage expands traditional red-painted house in Norway