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Already thinking about your next getaway post-Christmas? Here is Dezeen’s pick of 2023’s top 10 hotels, put together as part of our review of the year. Read more

Architecture practice Studio AMB has renovated a century-old traditional Japanese home in the Misumi region of Shimane to create a minimalist guesthouse, featuring a communal ground floor that is open to the elements. Read more

Several restaurants and a hotel have opened within Detroit‘s historic Book Tower as part of a years-long restoration project of the building undertaken by its developer and architecture studio ODA. Read more

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. Read more

Continuing our 2023 review, we revisit the most popular lookbooks of the year – from minimalist bedrooms and biophilic homes to marble-lined bathrooms and kitchens with tiled worktops. Read more

New York-based designer Kickie Chudikova worked with cannabis brand Gossamer to develop The Nesting Set, a glass ashtray, pipe and one-hitter that can be integrated stylishly into a user’s home. Read more

New York studio Civilian has designed the headquarters for a documentary production company in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, which includes an art deco-influenced screening room. Read more

A series of small gardens designed to « encourage play and movement » breaks up Hopscotch House, a cottage in Brisbane with an extension by local studio John Ellway. Read more

From the incisive to the intemperate, here are Dezeen’s top 10 quotes of 2023, taken from the interviews and opinion pieces we have published this year. Read more

This week on Dezeen, BIG unveiled its plans for a city in Bhutan that will be connected by « inhabitable bridges » and we continued our review of 2023. Read more