Portuguese studio Alarquitectos has used walls of pink and blue to brighten São Sebastião 123, an apartment converted from a 20th-century office in Lisbon. More about Alarquitectos lines Lisbon apartment with colour-blocked walls and pine wood
French artist Daniel Buren has created installations at six Belmond hotels, including a colourful pergola in Mallorca, mirrored totems in Cape Town and a window takeover in Rio de Janeiro. More about Daniel Buren brings his signature colours to six hotels around the world
Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, transformed by Barcelona studio H3O to reference a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago. More about H3O creates "unpredictable" zigzagging interiors for lightning-struck home
The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have transformed a traditional Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed home and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis movement. More about Masquespacio founders create home and office where "everything revolves around play"
Pupils from The Piggott School in Reading, England, have won the Design Museum's Design Ventura competition with a card game that encourages children to learn about colours in their surroundings. More about Schoolchildren merge Uno and I Spy in award-winning card game
Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook, which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. More about Nine home interiors brightened with colourful window frames
Google has returned to Milan design week with a kaleidoscopic installation by research studio Chromasonic, designed to simulate the experience of having synesthesia. More about Chromasonic makes "light audible and sound visible" for Google's Milan installation
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama collaborated with hundreds of craftspeople to create Purple Hibiscus, a handsewn installation of bespoke pink cloth covering the brutalist lakeside terrace of London's Barbican Centre. More about Ibrahim Mahama wraps Barbican Centre in swathes of pink fabric "made by a lot of hands"
Glossy walls, ruched curtains and oversized flower-shaped cushions characterise this eclectic 1970s-style Paris apartment, designed and owned by Uchronia founder Julien Sebban. More about Uchronia founder designs own home as "love letter to French craft"
Italian architecture office FDA has updated several guest rooms and suites at the family-friendly Hotel Haway on Italy's Adriatic coast, introducing bespoke furniture in colours that evoke the sea and mountains. More about FDA designs playful colour-block interiors for Italian seaside hotel
Promotion: Spanish bathroom brand Roca and designer Inma Bermúdez have given taps a colourful makeover with their award-winning Nu collection influenced by Mediterranean architecture. More about Colourful taps by Roca and Inma Bermúdez reference Mediterranean homes
On the heels of a two-year research process, Dutch studio Raw Color has released an IKEA collection in which no item features less than two colours to explore how our perception of a hue can change based on its context. More about "Surprising colour combinations" define Raw Color's IKEA collection
An interior design trend born out of a viral TikTok video, championing the addition of red "in places where it has no business", is the focus of our latest lookbook. More about Ten rooms that make clever use of the "unexpected red theory"
Promotion: NCS Colour has released its latest colour report documenting its predicted colour trends in 2025 that highlight "a need to connect with nature". More about Colours depicting "comfort, warmth and joy will be vital" says NCS's 2025 Colour Trends report
From a bold blue apartment in Paris to an all-lilac kitchen in Stockholm, this lookbook rounds up renovations that cleverly use bright colours to update and refresh home interiors. More about Eight colourful renovations that use vibrant shades to transform the home
Two British materials companies, Sages and Osmose, have collaborated to dye sheets of mycelium with natural food waste, mimicking the appearance of tanned leather and suggesting a colourful future for the biomaterial. More about Food-waste dyes bring colour to mycelium leather in Sages and Osmose project
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
Architecture studios Oficina de Diseño Colaborativo and Atelier TBD have created a cultural space that preserves the "self-built essence" of San Miguel de Allende. More about Primary colours fill converted brick structure in San Miguel de Allende
Interior design in 2024 will have a focus on individualism and see a backlash to the rise in AI design while colours will be informed by global warming, interior designers across the globe told Dezeen. More about Maximalism to make way for "quiet refinement" in 2024 say interior designers
Texas studio Method Architecture has completed an office for itself in Houston with maximalist design, vibrant colours and a mural at its centre. More about Method Architecture outfits its Houston office with vibrant mural