Continuing our Review of 2025, we take a look this year’s most controversial stories that stoked debate and received the most comments this year. President Donald Trump to add “exquisite” ballroom to White House Several of the year’s biggest architecture and design stories, and indeed much of all global news, were driven by US president
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Japanese art collective TeamLab has collaborated with architecture studio MZ Architects to create a permanent venue for its immersive artworks on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. Set alongside the recently completed Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi by Mecanoo, Team Lab Phenomena Abu Dhabi joins Foster+Partners’ Zayed National Museum and Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi as one of
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This year Dezeen interviewed over 50 of the biggest names in architecture and design, along with a US congresswoman and even a prime minister. Continuing our Review of 2025, here are the best and most insightful interviews of the year. With unprecedented access, we have sat down with many of the best-known and most interesting
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Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry has passed away, leaving an almost-unbelievable architectural legacy. Here are his 15 most influential buildings. Gehry Residence, USA, 1978 For Gehry’s radical extension to his own home in Santa Monica, California, he wrapped his Dutch-style suburban house in a series of interlocking structures. Featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at MoMA,
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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who designed the Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand, has won the 2026 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Ban becomes the fourth Japanese architect, following Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando and Kenzo Tange, to win the gold medal, which is the AIA’s highest honour. He was given the honour in recognition of
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US president Donald Trump has dismissed James McCrery as lead architect for his White House ballroom, with Shalom Baranes Associates now leading the project. McCrery, who was announced as the architect for the expansion to the White House in July, was removed as the studio didn’t have capacity to move the project forward at the
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Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz has created The Park cafe almost entirely from materials salvaged from an abandoned hotel for Design Mumbai 2025. Muñoz “mined” materials from an abandoned hotel to create a series of “one-of-a-kind improvisations” for the cafe space at this year’s design show in Mumbai. The Spanish designer, who was recently highly commended at
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Dezeen features editor Nat Barker has been named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the prestigious International Building Press Awards 2025. The award, which was given to Barker at a ceremony in central London last week, was presented for his “depth and craft in storytelling”. “Nat won this category because of his excellent and varied work, which
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To kick off our Review of 2025, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft picks 10 of the most interesting houses from the year, including a brutalist-castle-like home and a glass-brick fronted house. This year on Dezeen, we have published around 300 of the most unique and interesting new homes from all around the world, in a huge variety
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US architect Robert AM Stern, who was the long-time dean of Yale university, has passed away aged 86. Stern, who founded his studio, which is now known as RAMSA, in 1969, passed away today at his home in Manhattan, reported the New York Times. “Bob’s impact reverberates not just through RAMSA, but across the entire
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