Ambient lighting brings warmth to a pared-back interior scheme inside the Bar Ton listening bar in Bucharest, Romania, created by local designers Anda Zota and Muromuro Studio. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/23/bar-ton-listening-bar-bucharest-anda-zota-muromuro-studio/

Promotion: lifestyle brand Cybex has opened a monochrome flagship store in Paris as part of its continuing retail expansion strategy - nearly 20 years after the brand was founded. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/23/cybex-paris-flagship-store-monochrome/

New York-based Morris Adjmi Architects has used pink leather, herringbone flooring and green hand-glazed tiles across the interiors of a residential complex the studio designed on the waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/22/the-huron-residential-complex-greenpoint-brooklyn-morris-adjmi-architects/

French architect Philippe Starck has created a red cube to house the LA Almaraza olive oil mill, museum and restaurant in Andalusia, decorated with symbols referencing the area's heritage. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/22/la-almaraza-philippe-starck/

Renovations and adaptive reuse continue to be key trends in contemporary architecture. Here, Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson names 10 that exceeded expectations in 2024, including a museum with rotating walls and a plant-covered shopping centre. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/22/top-building-renovations-2024/

Architecture studio MAD Architects has unveiled a round pavilion topped with a distinctive roof called The Never Hut in Foshan, China. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/22/flying-saucer-shaped-pavilion-mad-architects-foshan-china/

New York-based designer Billy Cotton has blended art deco, futurist and brutalist references inside this restaurant in Lower Manhattan. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/21/billy-cotton-bridges-restaurant-manhattan/

Danish studio CF Moller Architects has completed Tampere Psychiatric Clinic in Finland with calming spaces that are intended to aid with patient wellbeing. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/21/cf-moller-architects-tampere-psychiatric-clinic/

Spiralling structures, marble treads and metal balustrades feature among Dezeen's roundup of the 10 most interesting staircases from 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/21/top-10-staircases-2024/

This week on Dezeen, we looked back at the Dezeen team's favourite buildings of the year and continued our review of 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/21/2024-best-buildings-this-week/

New Orleans architecture studio Trahan Architects has completed a performance pavilion made of weathering steel that is anchored by two ground points, making the structure appear lighter than it is. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/trahan-architects-weightless-pavilion-arkansas-steel/

Photographs have revealed the Casa de Vidrio greenhouse in Chile by architecture studio Max N'u~nez Arquitectos, which has vaulted roofs made of glass bricks. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/galss-block-greenhouse-chile-max-nunez-arquitectos/

Dezeen Showroom: a series of furniture and fittings rendered in Yves Klein's iconic deep blue hue is among 12 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/klein-blue-collection-tiptoe-products-furniture-design-dezeen-showroom/

Promotion: global kitchen and bath brand Kohler has set out an ambitious vision for the role it will play on the future of water conservation in the built environment. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/kohler-sets-out-vision-transforming-how-cities-conserve-water/

Dezeen Showroom: Indian company Azmas Rugs has extended its experiments with mathematics and design to its most complex creation yet, the Raffles rug, devised by designer David Mrugala. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/raffles-rug-david-mrugala-azmas-rugs-dezeen-showroom/

Indian architecture studio 3dor Concepts referenced flowing, pleated cloth when designing the undulating white walls of this minimalist home in Kerala. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/3dor-concepts-nyori-house-kerala/

Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has released construction photos of The Grand Ring, a vast wooden structure that will encircle the pavilions at the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/expo-2025-osaka-construction-sou-fujimoto/

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Dior's concept store in Bangkok, wrapped in golden facades modelled on the fashion brand's Paris headquarters. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/dior-gold-house-concept-store-comments/

Dezeen Events Guide has selected some of the best exhibitions featured on the site in 2024, from architecture spotlights to cafe takeovers. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/best-exhibitions-dezeen-events-guide-2024/

Photographer Paul Tulett has toured Japan to publish a book documenting the country's vast collection of concrete edifices. Here, he spotlights nine unusual examples featured in it. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/20/brutalist-japan-paul-tulett/