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Dezeen Awards China 2025 winners revealed at party in Shanghai

October 24, 2025 Kaia Wang 0

All 27 winners of this year’s Dezeen Awards China, along with the projects of the year including a wetland museum, cafe set on a cliff and an installation combining steel containers with inflatables, have been revealed at ceremony in Shanghai. Over 150 shortlisted architects and designers from all over China, joined by Dezeen Awards China judges

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Uncanny Studio revamps and reconnects rooms within 1930s London penthouse

October 23, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

A better sense of flow has been created between the rooms of this London penthouse, which design firm Uncanny Studio has decked out with marble, walnut wood and other luxury materials. The studio overhauled Primrose Apartment, which is set on the top floor of an art deco-era building that overlooks Regent’s Park in central London.

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Alan Prekop Studio turns disused office into apartment for artists

October 23, 2025 Alice Laycock 0

Slovakian architecture firm Alan Prekop Studio turned this former office in Bratislava into a flexible apartment by adding a space-saving custom-built steel structure. The apartment was designed as an artist’s residency and is in a former office space on the sixth floor of the city’s iconic Kotva House, which was built in 1930 to house

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Cometa Architects designs Barcelona apartment with “hand fan” layout

October 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Cometa Architects has added a custom-made central staircase and created circular cutouts to showcase a historic brick ceiling at Éventail, a Barcelona home filled with tactile details. The project takes its name from the layout of the 162-square-metre apartment, which resembles a traditional handheld ribbed fan. “The project unfolds around the metaphor of

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Windowless facade conceals “quiet grandeur” of Woodend bungalow in Victoria

October 20, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Living spaces richly finished with varieties of Italian marble lie behind the opaque facade of this house in Victoria, Australia, conceived by designer David Hicks. Woodend house is located in Macedon Ranges, a region of Victoria characterised by sprawling forests and rolling hillsides. Inspiration for the home’s design, however, stems from European vernacular architecture, in

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Omhu Projects creates colourful Oslo studio for podcast platform Podimo

October 20, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Oslo studio Omhu Projects used colour to channel different moods in the Norwegian office and recording studio of Scandinavian podcast platform Podimo. The interiors studio led by design duo Jenkins&Uhnger developed two material and colour palettes for Podimo’s Norway headquarters, to cater to the different people using the space. Vibrant colours bring energy to the

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Connected Classroom by Danish Kurani allows teachers to reach rural students in Alabama

October 19, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

Architect Danish Kurani has developed a prototype for a “connected” classroom, designed to enable expert teachers to remotely provide lessons to students in rural communities. Kurani completed the first iteration of the Connected Classroom at Robert C Hatch High School in Alabama’s rural Black Belt region, in partnership with nonprofit Ed Farm and the State

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Eight hair salons that are a cut above

October 19, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a “dripping shampoo” ceiling. Located all over the world, from Stockholm to Beijing, these salons have all been decorated in striking colours or materials. Their designs range

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“Understated nostalgia” defines Montreal sandwich shop by MRDK

October 18, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

Bright yellow upholstery and formica pops against a 1970s colour palette inside this sandwich shop in Montreal, designed by local studio MRDK. The architecture and design firm, also known as Ménard Dworkind, designed Renzo Sandwich in the city’s Mile End neighbourhood as a throwback to retro diners. Measuring 1,275 square feet (118 square metres), the

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“Metabolic systems” inform modular Guadalajara store by Xpan

October 17, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local art collective Xpan has created a store in Guadalajara lined with modular aluminium shelving that can be rearranged and shifted depending on the needs of the space. Located in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana neighbourhood, Espacio.gdl is a commercial space designed and built by Xpan, a local studio that creates a broad array of work such

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