Australian interiors firm BAR Studio has combined lush landscaped terraces and locally sourced materials in Tokyo‘s Fairmont hotel to forge a connection to its waterfront location. Fairmont Tokyo occupies the upper eight floors of the… Read More »Skyscraper hotel Fairmont Tokyo “blurs boundaries between inside and out”
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. Casa Guapuruvus sits on a forested site near… Read More »Cornetta Arquitetura immerses “contemporary cabin” in Brazilian forest
Dezeen Competitions: we’ve rounded up five architecture and design competitions that are open for entries into the new year, including designing a sauna and greenhouse in Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Other competitions include a call to create two bespoke… Read More »Task to design sauna on Icelandic lake among the latest Dezeen Competitions
Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto has renovated the third floor of Shanghai‘s Power Station of Art museum, transforming it into an art library named Espace Gabrielle Chanel. Espace Gabrielle Chanel is the first public library in China… Read More »Kazunari Sakamoto creates art library in Shanghai museum for Chanel
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. Photo courtesy of… Read More »The top 10 staircases of 2025
This week on Dezeen, designer Matteo Frontini updated the classic Moka coffee pot by adding a helical spiral base informed by jet engines. According to the designer, this innovation means that the pot has 93… Read More »This week on Dezeen we featured a coffee pot with a helical spiral base