Local studio Gianni Botsford Architects has added an extension to a house in Hampstead, London, that complements a distinctive, high-tech addition created by Norman Foster in the 1960s. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/02/reciprocal-house-gianni-botsford-architects-norman-foster/

Happy new year from Dezeen! We'll be back tomorrow, but in the meantime, you can read our review of the design, interiors and architecture highlights of 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/01/happy-new-year-2025/

San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/31/ryan-leidner-designs-artist-home-studio-california-desert/

An exposed concrete frame infilled with reclaimed stone walls encases warm, timber-lined interiors at this home near Beijing by architecture studio Chaoffice. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/31/chaoffice-house-of-bluff-reclaimed-stone-china/

From a slender home nestled into an infill site in Wisconsin to a micro home prototype in Indore, here are Dezeen's houses of the month for December. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/31/top-houses-december-2024/

German studio GMP Architekten has refurbished and extended Alsterschwimmhalle, a swimming pool in Hamburg with a distinctive double-curved concrete roof. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/31/gmp-architekten-alsterschwimmhalle-renovation/

Bread becomes a "precious and beautiful element" in this jewellery range created by designer Cindy Xinyi Wu as an ode to the act of baking and the energetic nature of dough. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/31/cindy-xinyi-wu-bread-rising-jewellery-collection/

Canadian studio HCMA has completed an aquatic and community centre in British Columbia that is the country's first zero-carbon certified building. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/30/hcma-aquatic-community-center-british-columbia/

Local practice Vector Architects has unveiled the Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring spa in Aranya, China, which was designed to resemble a piece of hot spring "apparatus". Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/30/wulingshan-eye-stone-spring-spa-vector-architects/

Dezeen rounds up our top 10 videos of 2024, featuring collaborations with studios MAD Architects and Future Facility, as well as institutions such as Triennale Milano, the Barbican and the Serpentine Galleries. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/30/top-architecture-design-videos-2024/

Local architects Dmytro Volyk and Ksenia Donetska have completed the renovation of Uspenska Square in Dnipro, Ukraine, dividing multipurpose space with wave-like benches informed by the nearby river. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/30/uspenska-square-ukraine/

Soft lighting, rounded forms and neutral colours create a welcoming atmosphere inside this sex shop in Kyiv by Ukrainian designers Sofiia Hupalovska and Nataliya Stukonog, with playful details including a phallic pouf. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/30/sofiia-hupalovska-nataliya-stukonog-inside-sex-shop-kyiv/

Local studio M'enard Dworkind has outfitted an irregularly shaped Vietnamese restaurant interior with blue and white mosaic tile and yellow accents in Montreal. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/29/menard-dworkind-le-red-tiger-restaurant-montreal-tiles/

A series of interventions by local studio Cooke Fawcett has opened up a cluster of makers' studios in south London to the public and given them a stronger street presence. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/29/cooke-fawcett-reveals-workings-of-messy-and-noisy-cockpit-deptford-studios/

For the latest instalment of our 2024 review, we've compiled the most popular chairs published on Dezeen Showroom over the course of the year, including a chair referencing the design of houses in Thailand. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/29/top-chairs-2024/

Chinese studio One Plus Partnership used red bricks to create wave-like surfaces inside this cinema lobby in the city of Haikou, China, emerging from the floors and ceilings to form a reception counter, tables and chairs. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/29/one-plus-partnership-haikou-gaoxingli-insun-cinema/

Studios WORKac and Ignacio Urquiza Architects have completed a green-tinted concrete building as part of the PILARES programme, which works to build supportive public facilities in vulnerable and impoverished areas across Mexico City. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/28/green-concrete-pilares-mexico-city-community-centre-workac-ignacio-urquiza/

Architect Adrienne Lau combined steel parts from old planters with beams from a demolished army barrack to create chairs and benches for a food-growing community in east London. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/28/adrienne-lau-acute-obtuse-outdoor-furniture-london/

From a house informed by stealth aircraft to a dwelling in a converted pig shed, we've collected this year's top holiday homes as part of our review of 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/28/holiday-homes-top-2024/

This month's Dezeen in Depth newsletter highlights five must-read articles from the past 12 months. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth today! Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/28/five-longer-read-articles-2024-dezeen-in-depth-newsletter/