Local practice NAAW Studio has converted a former Soviet railway workers' housing block into the Fika restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan, retaining original features of 1950s building. More about Studio NAAW uncovers Soviet-era details in Almaty restaurant interior
Paris-based lifestyle brand Kitsuné has opened a cafe next to its boutique in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, both with minimalist interiors featuring white oak and stainless steel. More about Café Kitsuné Los Angeles features Parisian-style interiors with "Japanese twist"
Our latest lookbook features living rooms where vintage furniture and accessories add interest to contemporary interiors, including a concrete apartment in São Paulo and a home in the BBC's former London headquarters. More about Eight living rooms where vintage furniture adds an "unknown history"
The Sims has been allowing players to act out their architecture and interior design fantasies for more than two decades. Jane Englefield finds out how the makers of the iconic life-simulation video game keep up with shifting trends. More about "The Sims is a key part of why I ended up in interior design"
Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa has created the interior for a skincare clinic in Tokyo, using textiles and custom-made furniture to make it feel more residential than medical. More about Keiji Ashizawa adds "residential calm" to Aloop clinic in Ginza
Prague studio Plus One Architects has restored the "original splendour" of this 1902 apartment in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, by reinstating some of its original features. More about Plus One Architects uncovers original paintwork of 100-year-old Czech apartment
Fashion retailer Aro Archive's pastel-hued east London store was designed by founder Ariana Waiata Sheehan to evoke "a sense of otherworldliness". More about Aro Archive store features pastel-coloured rooms and industrial control station
Bright hues define the different interventions that New York architecture studio Ideas of Order has made in this apartment at the northern tip of Manhattan. More about Ideas of Order selects bright colours for New York apartment renovation
This week's lookbook rounds up eight interiors with furnishings and surfaces finished in burl-wood veneer, allowing its swirly, psychedelic graining to serve a decorative function. More about Eight interiors where burl wood provides natural texture
Ukrainian designer Anastasiia Tempynska combined futuristic details with fleshy materials that evoke the human body when creating the interior of the 13 Laser clinic and spa in Kyiv. More about Anastasiia Tempynska designs futuristic interior for laser clinic in Kyiv
New York design studio Polonsky & Friends has lined this tiny New York omakase restaurant with burl wood veneer panels, while its counters and cabinetry are coloured to resemble bird feathers. More about Bird feathers and burls inform New York restaurant by Polonsky & Friends
In this lookbook, we feature nine residential projects that demonstrate unique ways of interacting with a site's history by weaving existing ruins into their designs. More about Nine contemporary homes where ruins reveal layers of the past
Texas architecture studio Side Angle Side has adapted a portion of a 1960s post office into a food market and restaurant in Austin. More about Side Angle Side transforms mid-century Austin post office into restaurant
American hotel brand Bunkhouse and interior design studio Reurbano have used motifs derived from the history of a Mexico City structure when converting it into a boutique hotel. More about Bunkhouse and Reurbano convert 1940s Mexico City apartments into boutique hotel
Interiors studio YSG has upgraded a home in Sydney's Mosman suburb to feature "lavish yet tranquil" interiors that are more akin to those of a luxury hotel. More about YSG brings boutique-hotel feel to family home in Sydney
Local architecture studio RA! took cues from Latin American art deco design when creating the tiny interior of Los Alexis, a small taqueria in Mexico City's Roma Norte neighbourhood. More about RA! clads Mexico City taco restaurant with broken tiles
Interior design must begin facing up to uncomfortable truths about our planet and health in 2024, Michelle Ogundehin writes in her annual trends report for Dezeen. More about "We must abandon the ordered, rational, learned good taste and comfort we've become used to"
A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab's lighting products inside the brand's Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. More about PSLab's monochromatic Berlin showroom is a "sacred place for light"
Subtle nods to traditional Chinese architecture can be found throughout this restaurant in California, designed by LA-based Jialun Xiong. More about Jialun Xiong highlights "intricacies and textures" at Sichuanese restaurant in LA
This week's lookbook explores eight clever shed and outbuilding interiors, ranging from self-built renovations to finely crafted new builds. More about Eight well-designed sheds and outbuildings that extend the home