Barde vanVoltt designs Mexico City penthouse as « brutalist sanctuary »
Dutch design studio Barde vanVoltt has used textured stucco walls, stainless steel panels and sculptural stone elements to outfit a two-level penthouse in Mexico City. Read more
Ian Moore Architects transforms Sydney pub into house with « wall of light »
Australian studio Ian Moore Architects has transformed a 19th-century pub in Sydney into The Corner House, a home with a rear wing clad in glass bricks. Read more
Ten American ADUs that showcase their urban versatility
Laws and regulations around accessory dwelling units are opening up opportunities for infill around the US to mitigate the housing crisis and more. Here, we round up 10 from California to Kansas to showcase the forms they can take. Read more
Spaces « melt into one another » at Geetanjali Salon in Ahmedabad
Indian architecture office Metonia Designs used a uniform rust-coloured material palette to create an immersive environment informed by dusk in this beauty salon in Ahmedabad. Read more
Studio Ahead decks out suite aboard world’s « largest private residential yacht »
San Francisco-based Studio Ahead has completed the interiors of a suite on board massive private yacht The World, which had to be installed in stages as it sailed from port to port. Read more
Sabine Marcelis installs Maze with « coloured walls of shade » at Coachella 2026
Designer Sabine Marcelis is headlining this year’s Coachella Art program with an inflated maze, alongside a pleated-orb installation by architect Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas and a brutalist tower by The Los Angeles Design Group. Read more
DSDHA prioritises « elegant frugality » in Henry Moore Studios gallery revamp
London studio DSDHA has renovated Sheep Field Barn, a gallery at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens in Hertfordshire, UK, updating its exhibition areas and introducing workshop spaces. Read more
Brutalist Korea presents « nu-bru » buildings from Seoul to Jeju Island
New book Brutalist Korea showcases designs ranging from a blocky kindergarten to a building designed to « conjure the image of an open book ». Author Paul Tulett chooses 11 favourites. Read more
This week BIG revealed a trio of luxury rammed-earth villas in Japan
This week on Dezeen, Danish studio BIG unveiled three rammed-earth villas on the remote island of Sagishima, which marks the studio’s first project in Japan. Read more
Selling Design to Non-Designers: Communication Strategies That Work
The best design in the world fails if the client doesn’t buy it. You can craft a perfect solution, elegant in its simplicity and precise in its execution. But if you can’t communicate why it works, if you can’t translate your decisions into language the client understands, the work gets watered down, revised into mediocrity, …
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