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This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlists

October 11, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we showcased the world’s best architecture, interiors, design and sustainability projects along with announcing the nominees for Designers of the Year in our Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlist reveal. This year’s Dezeen Awards architecture shortlist was announced on Monday and included projects such as House for Julia, a children’s hospice designed as

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Frama designs first international store in Tokyo to “reflect the architecture of wellbeing”

September 25, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays the brand’s Care collection of fragrances and beauty products on stainless-steel shelves that cover three of its four walls. Walls

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Ciguë designs art-filled Ace Hotel in brutalist building on Athens Riviera

November 11, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

French studio Ciguë drew on Greek modernism when creating the interior of Ace Hotel and Swim Club Athens, which features vintage furniture and specially commissioned artworks by local artists. Located in the old Fenix Hotel, a brutalist building notable for its jagged facade composed of multiple small balconies, the latest Ace Hotel has a pool and

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Eight homes where plywood panelling creates warm interiors

November 10, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

We’ve gathered interior projects that feature tactile plywood panelling for our latest lookbook, from a Swedish summer house to a London micro apartment. Plywood, which is made from glued-together layers of thin wood veneers, is often used for structural applications but has also become popular as a choice for decorative wall panels. Using it throughout

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Atelier Heyman Hamilton revives 1970s summer house in the Swedish archipelago

November 8, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Atelier Heyman Hamilton has renovated and expanded Torö, a holiday home on an island with the same name in Sweden, focusing on “the meeting between the building and the site”. The careful renovation aimed to honour the house’s 1970s Folkhem architecture, a Swedish movement that combined modern materials and mass production systems with

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Chipperfield monastery transformation among projects shortlisted for RIBA International Prize

November 6, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

British architect David Chipperfield’s Jacoby Studios office in Germany will compete against a museum in China and a social housing project in Spain to be named the world’s best building by the RIBA International Prize. Jacoby Studios, which was completed in 2020, was originally built as a monastery but turned into offices for a family-run

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This week the first Neom region completed

November 2, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, Sindalah, the first region from Saudi Arabian mega project Neom to be completed, opened for visitors. Described as a “luxury island destination”, Sindalah is a resort located five kilometres off the Neom coastline in the Red Sea. The 840,000-square-metre development was designed by Luca Dini Design and Architecture and built around an

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Dezeen’s guide to mid-century modern design from A to Z

November 1, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

To conclude our mid-century modern series, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about the design and architecture movement from A to Z. For the last article in our series exploring mid-century modern design and architecture, we’ve collated 28 of its most influential proponents, furniture designs, places, materials and companies. Read on to discover

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Verner Panton preferred experimentation to “beautiful platitude”

October 29, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Verner Panton caused a sensation with his pioneering approach to furniture and lighting design. For our mid-century modern series, we profile the Danish designer whose colourful pieces and interiors define an era. With their vibrant colours and undulating shapes, Verner Panton’s Heart Cone and Panton chairs are among the most iconic design pieces to come

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