This week on Dezeen, we showcased the world’s best architecture, interiors, design and sustainability projects along with announcing the nominees for Designers of the Year in our Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlist reveal.
This year’s Dezeen Awards architecture shortlist was announced on Monday and included projects such as House for Julia, a children’s hospice designed as a “modern sanctuary” by architecture studio Čtyřstěn Architekti (above).
This was followed on Tuesday by our interiors shortlist, which included Spanish studio Isern Serra’s design for a Barcelona modelling agency (below).
On Wednesday, projects including the Hermès homeware collection shown at Milan design week made the design shortlist, while the sustainability shortlist on Thursday featured work such as Finland’s largest mass-timber building.
Yesterday’s announcement of the Designers of the Year shortlist included nominations for Kéré Architecture, Iris van Herpen and India Mahdavi, and our Bentley Lighthouse Award nominees will be revealed on Monday.
In design news this week, computer company Microsoft unveiled the updated logos for its Office applications, which marks their first redesign since 2018.
The refresh of the logos shows “how AI is shifting the discipline of design and the nature of product development”, Microsoft said.
After the recent deaths of British architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, architecture critic Catherine Slessor wrote an opinion piece discussing how their careers were intertwined, yet highly distinct.
Their deaths mark the end of an era, according to Slessor.
“That extraordinarily influential ‘britischer Architekt’ generation of men who grew up toying with Meccano and went on to change the world is finally leaving the stage,” she wrote.
Author Dominic Bradbury chose eight post-war homes that “still have lessons to teach us” from his book Post-War Homes: Mid-Century British Architecture. Among the eight buildings featured are Eric Lyons and Span’s Fieldend in London, above.
“The choice was really driven by selecting exemplary case studies of houses and housing which still have lessons to teach us today,” Bradbury told Dezeen.
In Milan, global architecture studio SOM revealed its completed 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes’ Village in Porta Romana, which will be turned into studio housing after the games. It comprises six mass-timber residential buildings and two adapted historic buildings.
Also in Milan, architecture studio Foster + Partners is set to design the replacement for the iconic San Siro stadium after a sale of the existing building was approved by Milan’s city council.
The renovated Quay Quarter Tower by Danish architecture 3XN and Australian studio BVN in Sydney, Australia, became the first-ever building to be nominated for Prince William’s Eartshot Prize.
“Quay Quarter Tower is the world’s first fully ‘upcycled skyscraper’ and the most comprehensive building transformation ever attempted at this scale,” the organisers said.
Other popular projects from this week include a “saddle-shaped” stadium in China by Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects’ transformation of a US Embassy into a hotel and stepped senior housing by Hacker Architects.
Our latest lookbook explored interiors where built-in sofas become one with the walls, while our latest roundup showcased unusual spirit bottles by designers and architects.
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