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Eight minimalist living rooms where less is more

January 11, 2026 Jane Englefield 0

On the heels of Dezeen’s 2026 interiors trend report that forecast “intelligent restraint” in the year ahead, our latest lookbook spotlights eight pared-back living spaces. With a new year underway, Dezeen spoke to interior designers about their trend predictions for 2026. The creatives were united in their feeling that spaces designed over the next 12

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Sloping earthen roof tops waiting area for Japanese tea room by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten

January 10, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has completed a waiting area for the Sekiyuan tea room in Chiba, Japan, sheltering it with a textured roof of mortar and soil that will be gradually overgrown with moss. Named Sekiyuan Waiting Area, the small timber pavilion contains a timber bench and was self-built by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten with the tea

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Ten ways that architects used weathering steel in 2025

January 10, 2026 Nat Barker 0

Weathering steel has been a trendy choice among architects for many years, but as this diverse roundup of projects completed in 2025 shows, any reports of it going out of style are greatly exaggerated. EMIT Technologies, USA, by CLB Architects Almost all the weathering steel that wraps this building was custom fabricated and engineered on

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David Chipperfield ice hockey arena set to be unfinished for Winter Olympics

January 9, 2026 Tom Ravenscroft 0

International Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif has suggested that the David Chipperfield-designed Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena will not be fully complete in time for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which begins next month. Speaking at the ice hockey World Junior Championship, Tardif reassured journalists that the tournament would take place in the building, but

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Nikjoo and Flawk create “uniquely sculptural” home on London infill site

January 9, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Curved walls and porthole windows add character to this brick home built on an infill site in north London, which has been completed by local architecture studio Nikjoo. Designed in collaboration with London-based developer Flawk, the three-bedroom family home, named Runda, is composed of a rounded volume that sits on the corner plot of a

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White House considering “one-storey addition to the West Wing” with updated ballroom plans

January 8, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architect Shalom Baranes has presented an updated, “more-graceful” design of the proposed White House ballroom and suggested adding a storey to the West Wing for symmetry. Baranes explained that, after taking over the project from original architect McCrery Architects, his studio will build upon the previous scheme. Baranes’ plans include placing a 22,000-square-foot (2,043-square-metre) ballroom

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HW Studio designs concrete house that “withdraws discreetly” in Mexico

January 8, 2026 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architecture practice HW Studio has created a concrete house on the Pacific coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with a semi-elliptical wall that frames multiple levels of contemplative courtyards. The Morelia, Mexico-based studio completed the 472 square metre (5,080 square feet) Casa Tao in 2025. It was designed through conversations with the clients about their

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MoDus Architects contrasts “refinement and ruggedness” for Italian home

January 7, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

Italian studio MoDus Architect has completed Hometown House, a dwelling in Trento that contrasts a black-timber exterior with light and airy larch-lined interiors. Set among the rolling hills and orchards of the Non Valley, Hometown House was designed by MoDus Architects for a client returning to his hometown after decades abroad. It occupies the site

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Architects “must rethink how and why we build” in 2026

January 7, 2026 Amy Peacock 0

Tough times lie ahead for architects and 2026 must be the year to reshape the profession, industry leaders have warned. Dezeen asked architects from leading and emerging studios about what trends they predict will define the profession this year, including Dutch studio OMA, Chinese studio MAD, New York-based Selldorf Architects, London studio Nimtim Architects and

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Commoncraft uses cantilever to extend “unconventional” Brooklyn building

January 6, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio Commoncraft has used a cantilevered volume to curve 545 Metropolitan over its neighbours, navigating the narrow Brooklyn site in order to provide more floor space. Located on Williamsburg’s busy Metropolitan Avenue just across from the Lorimer L subway station, 545 Metropolitan is a six-storey mixed-use building that contains apartments, ground-level commercial space and

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