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
Continuing our Review of 2025, we look back at the 10 most significant skyscrapers from the year, including a pair of towers in Argentina and a New York supertall. More about The top 10 skyscrapers of 2025
Architecture studio Snøhetta is set to transform a former railway site into a riverside park and cultural destination in Drammen, Norway, adding a theatre and conference hall with an arched green roof. More about Snøhetta designs Skamarken riverside development with mound-like theatre
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that The Grand Ring in Osaka will be mostly turned into firewood, according to its architect Sou Fujimoto. More about "To chop this structure up feels tragic" says commenter
Global architecture studio SOM has used AI tools to inform its geometric design for the West Bund Convention Centre, which has risen beside the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. More about SOM uses AI to design diamond-like West Bund Convention Centre in Shanghai
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Zaha Hadid Architects' plans for a garden hospital. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Zaha Hadid Architects' garden hospital design
Brooklyn-based writer Sam Venis has photographed "charter city" Próspera, a semi-independent community in Honduras, where UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed upcoming buildings. More about Sam Venis documents infrastructure at "political experiment" Próspera in Honduras
Cave-like openings, green timber tendrils and a monolithic standing stone all feature in Druid Grove, a London house recently renovated by local studio CAN. More about CAN completes "mystical and grounding" renovation of London townhouse
Continuing our Review of 2025, we take a look this year's most controversial stories that stoked debate and received the most comments this year. More about The five most controversial stories of 2025
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a snaking hotel for hospitality brand Not A Hotel, which will perch above a coastal site in Okinawa, Japan. More about Zaha Hadid Architects designs hotel to wind around Okinawa beach
The UK government has announced reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, which will require new builds in England to be fitted with swift bricks for nesting birds. More about New homes in England to have bird-friendly swift bricks in planning reform
Almost all cities are based around a water source, but London does not talk enough about the importance of public access to the River Thames, writes Jessica Furseth. More about "We talk a lot about the value of green space, but our silty brown 'blue space' often remains an afterthought"
The Las Vegas Museum of Art has released updated images of its headquarters, being designed by Burkinabè architect studio Kéré Architecture with SOM, a building informed by the desert and the city's modernist architecture. More about Kéré Architecture unveils updated Las Vegas Museum of Art designs
Canadian studio Omer Arbel Office has designed the 91.0 cedar house with sandblasted planks that "evoke" stacked lumber, elevating it above a gully on a waterfront property in British Columbia. More about Omer Arbel Office designs cedar-clad British Columbia house for rising tides
The Museum of Image and Sound by American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Rio de Janeiro is set for a "soft opening" in early 2026, after more than ten years of delays, with photos showing its multi-level form and massive ramps. More about Rio de Janeiro museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro set to open after 15 years
A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studios Permanent and Atelier Nagara. More about Soaring metal roof tops rural Japanese office by Permanent and Atelier Nagara
Adaptive reuse and renovations have emerged as dominant trends in British architecture this year, as seen in this recap of the UK's top buildings for our Review of 2025. More about Dezeen's top 10 UK architecture projects of 2025
Concerns about embodied carbon are increasing the impetus to design architecture that stands the test of time. But just how long should we expect a building to last? Nat Barker reports. More about How long should a building last?