The Edge of Calm villa in Dubai Hills Estate offered interior designer D’Ora Tokai the chance to dismantle a structure entirely and rebuild it with more deliberate architectural intention. Working with a family she had… Read More »D’Ora Tokai Transforms Dubai Villa Through Sculptural Minimalism
Dezeen Showroom: Italian design brand Miniforms has published several of its new furnishings and lighting designs on our furniture directory in 2025. Read on to find out more about them. The result of one of… Read More »Furniture and lighting from Minforms’ catalogue are on Dezeen Showroom
Colour specialist Pantone has announced Cloud Dancer as its 2026 colour of the year – an understated, greyish white hue chosen to signify a yearning for “a future free from toxicity and excess”. Pantone 11-4201… Read More »“Lofty white” Cloud Dancer named as Pantone Colour of the Year 2026
A zigzagging facade of sit-in bay windows defines Harmonikahusene, a pair of curved housing blocks for students and young professionals in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by architecture studio EFFEKT. Named Harmonikahusene, or The Accordion Houses, after their… Read More »EFFEKT wraps student housing in Denmark with red accordion-like facade
Continuing our Review of 2025, Dezeen’s editorial team have each picked their favourite buildings of the year, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school. Photo by Lizzie Crook The Grand… Read More »The best architecture of 2025
Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls. The bar, located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area,… Read More »Ichio Matsuzawa creates “one-of-a-kind” Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass