Continuing our 2025 Review, China editor Christina Yao selects the year's best Chinese architecture projects including grand schemes by international studios BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects, as well as small-scale pavilions from local studios. More about The top 10 Chinese buildings of 2025
Architect Alexis Dornier referenced concept sketches for a James Bond film to create Villa Omah Prana, a doughnut-shaped house in Bali that gives each space views out over the surrounding forest. More about Alexis Dornier references Moonraker concept art for ring-shaped villa in Bali
It might have been the year of AI "slop", but 2025 also saw the emergence of some genuinely innovative, intriguing and even beneficial uses for artificial intelligence. Here, we round up eight of our favourites as part of Dezeen's Review of 2025. More about Eight actually interesting uses of AI from 2025
Polycarbonate panels clad the exterior of this triangular treehouse in Switzerland's Locarno district, which was designed by Swiss architect Olin Petzold as a woodland writing studio. More about Olin Petzold nestles self-built treehouse in Swiss valley
Mexican studio PPAA has created a blocky concrete house on a narrow site in Los Angeles, California, USA, carving out courtyards and voids into the form. More about PPAA utilises "subtractive design" for concrete house in Los Angeles
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
Swedish car brand Volvo has collaborated with type studio Dalton Maag to create a dedicated typeface for use in its cars, which aims to be as easy to read as possible. More about Volvo creates "instantly readable" typeface to improve driver safety
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
Director Luca Guadagnino has teamed up with JW Anderson to create a trio of paperweights immortalising the infamous scene from his film Call Me by Your Name, in which actor Timothée Chalamet's character pleasures himself with a peach. More about Luca Guadagnino evokes Call Me by Your Name with sensuous peach paperweights for JW Anderson
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
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