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Meditative lighting and Banarasi brocade panels decorate Jain community hall in Kolkata

January 16, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Spaces and Design used regional craftsmanship and earthy colours to create the Sangha Bhawan community centre in India. Designed for the Acharya Mahapragya Mahashraman Education & Research Foundation (AMMERF), Sangha Bhawan is located in central Kolkata and has a peaceful interior filled with natural materials. This ties in with the brief for the

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Mercedes-Benz unveils skyscraper “city within a city” in Dubai

January 15, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Car company Mercedes-Benz and developer Binghatti have revealed Mercedes-Benz Places Binghatti City, a development in Dubai that will comprise 12 residential skyscrapers. The development, which will have 13,000 apartments, is the second residential project by Binghatti and Mercedes-Benz and will be centred around the 341-metre-high Vision Iconic building. Vision Iconic will be flanked by 11

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Klein Dytham Architecture completes community centre post-earthquake in Noroshi

January 14, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has showcased Home for All Noroshi, a community centre that incorporates roof tiles from homes destroyed in Japan’s Noto earthquake, in this video shared with Dezeen. The community centre was developed in collaboration with Home for All, a non-profit organisation founded by architect Toyo Ito following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. Klein

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This week we revealed the design, architecture and interior trends for 2026

January 10, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen we asked industry experts, including Reinier de Graaf, Tola Ojuolape and Luca Nichetto, about what trends we should look out for in architecture, interiors and design this year. When it comes to architecture, our architecture reporter Amy Peacock found that architects “must rethink how and why we build” in 2026. Dezeen

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Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu

January 6, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as “solving a puzzle” when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden louvres for privacy. Designed for a couple and their three children, the three-storey House in Minami-Azabu – named after the neighbourhood in which it’s located – sits next to a residential street on its

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The top 10 hotels of 2025

December 24, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For the latest in our review of 2025, we explore the best hotel designs of the year – from a surrealist hotel by Philippe Starck to an Oaxaca hotel modelled on pre-Hispanic pyramids. The hospitality industry stepped up its game this year, with a number of exciting openings ranging from the adapted reuse of existing

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Colourful restaurant Motorino offers peek into neighbouring Fitzrovia chapel

December 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

English interiors studio North End Design drew on 1980s Japanese and American boardrooms, British car companies from the 60s and wood-panelled recording studios when designing this restaurant in London with an unusual cut-out feature. Located in London’s central Fitzrovia neighbourhood, Motorino is the second restaurant North End Design has created for chef Stevie Parle following

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Norm Architecture draws on “Scandinavian simplicity” for Danish gallery interior

December 18, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Danish studio Norm Architects looked to the nature and light of the Danish island of Bornholm when creating Galleri Sonja, which also houses a cafe and a shop. The design gallery is located inside a former printing house dating back to 1886, located in the town of Allinge on the northern tip of Bornholm, where

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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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