Interior Design

Pantone is keeping things quiet — intentionally. The color institute’s 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, is a crisp, whisper-soft white with just a hint of warmth, chosen as a calming counterpoint to an increasingly noisy world. It’s clean, versat…

Walk through the Muted Townhouse to see how minimal design can also feel inviting.

A zigzagging facade of sit-in bay windows defines Harmonikahusene, a pair of curved housing blocks for students and young professionals in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by architecture studio EFFEKT. Named Harmonikahusene, or The Accordion Houses, after their concertinaed exteriors, the blocks were created for developer Nrep to provide 519 student flats and 158 apartments alongside communal facilities

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Continuing our Review of 2025, Dezeen’s editorial team members have each picked their favourite buildings of the year, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school. The Grand Ring, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto chosen by Cajsa Carlson, deputy editor “Standing in front of The Grand Ring, architect Sou Fujimoto’s immense wooden

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The owner of this Victorian house in York, England, wasn’t after a big kitchen, but she did want her existing space to be lighter, calmer and warmer-looking. Achieving that was another matter, however, so she asked designer Lucy Clarke-Bishop to help….