Dezeen’s top 10 architecture and design videos of 2025
Next in our review of 2025, we select 10 of the best videos produced by Dezeen this year, including  look inside postmodern landmark The Cosmic House and a sculptural exhibition transforming cardboard into icy, crystalline forms. Read more
Dezeen’s top five houses of December 2025
Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for December include a multi-generational home in Vietnam and a minimalist house in Portugal with two recording studios. Read more
The Desk, The Tools, The Ritual: How a Designer’s Physical and Digital Environment Shapes Creative Output
Creativity is often imagined as a lightning strike from the mind, but in practice, it is more like a carefully cultivated garden. The soil, the tools, and the daily tending determine what grows. For designers, this garden is the physical and digital environment in which we work. The monitor setup, the choice of a note …
Payette creates engineering building with a « folded form » at Penn State University
Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building in central Pennsylvania called ECoRE, which features a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins. Read more
Studio Plyš revamps Borová Lada Cottage outside Bohemian Forest
Architecture practice Studio Plyš has renovated a 19th-century cottage at the edge of the Bohemian Forest in the Czech Republic, repairing its original stone and timber structure with additions in plywood, concrete and fibre cement. Read more
The top 10 Chinese buildings of 2025
Continuing our 2025 Review, China editor Christina Yao selects the year’s best Chinese architecture projects including grand schemes by international studios BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects, as well as small-scale pavilions from local studios. Read more
Blue Temple creates earthquake-proof bamboo homes for « the price of a smartphone »
Myanmar-based architecture studio Blue Temple has teamed up with construction company Housing Now to build a series of low-cost bamboo homes capable of withstanding natural disasters. Read more
MRDK creates Toronto pizzeria with an upstairs-downstairs atmosphere
Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has designed a restaurant interior with a casual take-out counter and an upscale bar lounge in Toronto, Ontario. Read more
Designing for Forkability: How Open-Source Principles Can Shape Better, More Adaptable Design Systems
In software, a fork is not a failure. It is a feature. When developers encounter an open-source project that solves 80% of their problem, they don’t plead with maintainers to change it. They fork it. They copy the codebase, adapt the remaining 20% to their exact needs, and move forward. This creates a vibrant ecosystem …
Alexis Dornier references Moonraker concept art for ring-shaped villa in Bali
Architect Alexis Dornier referenced concept sketches for a James Bond film to create Villa Omah Prana, a doughnut-shaped house in Bali that gives each space views out over the surrounding forest. Read more
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