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The top 10 restaurants of 2025

December 14, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Next in our 2025 review, we look back at the best restaurants of the year, from an “urban greenhouse” in Mexico City to a colour-saturated eatery in Shanghai designed by film director Wong Kar Wai. When it came to restaurant design in 2025, it was all about the right materials. Designers turned to volcanic ceramic,

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Klein Dytham shapes aluminium into “silky drape of fabric” for Cartier Ginza facade

December 8, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed the facade for jewellery brand Cartier’s Ginza store, which features swooping aluminium curves designed to evoke a wedding dress. The studio wanted its design to stand out among the bustling streets of Tokyo’s central Ginza district, which are surrounded by linear rows of skyscrapers. “The concept was to bring

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Frida Escobedo designs HQ with “subdued monumentality” for Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs

December 5, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Frida Escobedo has revealed the bayside headquarters of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will incorporate Doha’s modernist General Post Office building. Frida Escobedo Studio’s 70,000-square-metre complex will be located on Al Corniche, Doha’s waterfront promenade, and house Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). It was designed to “establish a more visible civic presence

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Ichio Matsuzawa creates “one-of-a-kind” Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass

December 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls. The bar, located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area, featured see-through walls that resembled sheets of water cascading down from the ceiling. Matsuzawa chose to work with the transparent

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The top 10 home interiors of 2025

December 3, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our 2025 review, we explore the best residential interiors on Dezeen this year, ranging from an all-timber London flat to a Singapore apartment that drew inspiration from the city’s parks. Among the common themes this year were a focus on craftsmanship, with designers also turning to calming hues and interiors that reference nature. Organic

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Athens’ industrial Voulkanizater restaurant features wheel rims and car parts

December 2, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designers George Vlasis Pakalidis and Artemis Valyraki drew on the industrial origins of a tyre workshop when designing the Voulkanizater listening bar and restaurant in Athens. Located in Athens’ inner-city Koukaki neighbourhood, the bar and restaurant took its name from the building’s former use. “The space and location of the current bar was previously a tyre-fixing,

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Eight compact bedrooms that make the most of small spaces

November 29, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we have collected small bedrooms in homes from remote western Iceland to Okinawa, Japan, that show how to create smart and stylish designs even when there’s limited space. Raised beds that provide storage underneath and a mirrored ceiling were among the tricks used to create more storage and give the illusion

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Plastic Box store is “a brutalist art gallery disguised as a supermarket”

November 28, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture practice Minimal Studio has unveiled Plastic Box, a supermarket in Mallorca with a minimalist exposed-concrete interior and a ceiling of 1,200 plastic crates. The fully functioning store, located in Mallorca’s Port of Pollensa, was conceived by the studio as a “raw concrete envelope”. “We reduced the structure to its essence, removing all previous finishes

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Amateur Architecture Studio’s Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2027

November 26, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Amateur Architecture Studio founders Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen as the curators of the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, with aims to combat “the death of architecture”. The two Chinese architects, who have won numerous awards, established their own studio in 1997 and also founded the architecture department at the China

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Osaka Castle’s Golden Tea Room informs interiors of Blue Bottle Coffee Shinsaibashi

November 26, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Keiji Ashizawa Design looked to Osaka Castle’s triangular forms and the shape of the city’s Tsutenkaku Tower when designing the latest Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Osaka, Japan. Located in Osaka’s busy Shinsaibashi area, the studio aimed to offer visitors a peaceful place to visit when it designed the cafe. “Blue Bottle Coffee

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