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Dezeen Showroom: Dutch company Pretty Plastic has produced tiles for facades roofs using a notoriously hard-to-recycle material: PVC from post-consumer construction waste. Read more

The Standard Hotel, Camden / former Camden Town Hall Annexe – Sydney Cooke / 1974 + Orms, 2016 Image credit: This year’s London Open House festival takes place between 13 – 21 September 2025. Here, our new Head of Casework Laura Mark picks ten of the best twentieth century buildings to see, many of which …

Design firm Wendover has converted the former St John’s Wood police station in northwest London into a block of nine rental apartments, organised around a central courtyard. Read more

The inflatable Ark Nova concert hall, created by sculptor Anish Kapoor and architect Arata Isozaki in 2013, has been transported from Japan to Switzerland for Lucerne Festival. Read more

Global interest in South Korean culture is helping Hyundai make more unusual cars, Hyundai Design Center head Simon Loasby tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Norwegian design brand Volver worked with designer Kristine Five Melvær on a range of kaleidoscopic hand tufted rugs decorated with geometric patterns. Read more

Office Inainn has inserted Nikkakjøkken, a timber-framed restaurant, into the concrete and timber envelope of a barn in Valldal, Norway. Read more

A pared-back concrete showroom with an arched glass-brick ceiling sits next to a historic salon filled with collectible design at fashion brand Acne Studios‘ latest headquarters, designed together with Stockholm-based Halleroed. Read more

Dezeen has revealed the 192 projects longlisted for this year’s Dezeen Awards design categories, including designs by Foster + Partners, Kvadrat and Pentagram. Read more

Material research studio Matter at Hand, founded by Assemble co-founder Lewis Jones, has created a prototype clay-based construction method named Poured Earth that emulates casting concrete. Read more