Continuing our review of 2019, Sabina Sohail selects the top 10 hotels of the year including a spa in the Sharjah desert and a hotel built within an abandoned quarry in China. More about Dezeen's top 10 hotels of 2019
In our latest competition, we're offering our readers the chance to win a week-long retreat for two at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka. More about Competition: win a week-long retreat at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka
Artist and illustrator Emily Forgot collaborated with British furniture brand Very Good & Proper on this series of multimedia artworks that draw inspiration from the architecture of post-war schools. More about Emily Forgot uses furniture-making processes for architectural wall art
Merry Christmas to all our readers! We'll be back with more architecture and design tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of a cabin in Norway designed by Snøhetta and take a look at the best Christmas trees and cards of the year.
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Chilean architect Alberto Moletto has created a concrete-framed educational facility at a Catholic university that is designed to go "unnoticed for those who walk through the campus". More about Alberto Moletto designs gridded facade for Santiago college building
Our pick of the best Christmas cards we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht's treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral.
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A pair of cabins heated by a sauna stove, a zero-impact reflective cabin in the Swiss Alps and treetop cabins on stilts are among this year's 10 standout cabins chosen by Karen Anderson, as we continue our review of 2019. More about Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2019
Product design studio Tiipoi has worked with Indian master craftsman Mathew Sasa to create a collection of ceramic vessels using a technique found in a remote village in northeastern India. More about Tiipoi creates ceramic kitchenware using technique from remote Indian village
Stockholm-based artist Åsa Stenerhag has created a series of ceramic objects that she suggests might be alien body parts. More about Åsa Stenerhag creates peculiar ceramics for Alien Autopsy exhibition
Montreal interior designer Michael Godmer has expanded and revitalised a local townhouse by preserving original woodwork and adding contemporary details. More about Michael Godmer designs "perfectly balanced" Montreal townhouse Elmwood Residence
American architect Paul Andersen has designed a series of commercial structures in Colorado with deceptive facades that rise higher than the actual buildings – a style that was popular in the Old West. More about Colorado campus by Paul Andersen features buildings with "false fronts"
Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters. More about Haeckels' Victorian bathing machine warms up winter seaside dippers
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company's City road plates. More about Billund car park covered with roads from Lego play sets
We've rounded up some of our favourite Christmas trees of the year, including not one but two inspired by the Bauhaus and a Lego dragon in Christmas tree form. More about Ten of the most original Christmas trees of 2019
As part of Dezeen's yearly review, reporter Natasha Levy has selected the top 10 home interiors of 2019 – among which is a micro flat in Taiwan and a bunker-style apartment in Sydney. More about Dezeen's top 10 home interiors of 2019
Named design project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019, Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group at MIT shows how materials derived from living organisms could be used in architecture, according to the jury. More about Aguahoja I won design project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019 for the "new attributes" of its natural materials
A vivid green floor covered in semi-precious stones is the focal point of this decadent Asian restaurant in central London, which has been created by The Ivy in collaboration with Adam Ellis Studio. More about Backlit gemstone floor illuminates London restaurant The Ivy Asia
John Pawson has collaborated with Danish brand Tekla on a collection of mohair blankets in four solid colours that draw on the changing seasons around his home in the English countryside. More about John Pawson designs block-colour blanket collection for Tekla
A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. More about Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake
Brazilian studio Bruno Rossi has built a delicate pavilion by a lake with wooden brises to control wind flow. More about Bruno Rossi designs "floating pavilion" for Brazilian lake