Dezeen Showroom: White Tiger granite and golden-hued bronzed brass combine dramatically in the Skywalk kitchen, designed by British kitchen brand Eggersmann. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/skywalk-kitchen-eggersmann-dezeen-showroom/

London studio Satish Jassal Architects has completed Rowan Court, a cluster of brick-clad social housing blocks in Seven Sisters that "repairs the frayed edges" of an existing 1970s estate. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/rowan-court-satish-jassal-architects/

Danish studio BIG has designed a curving folded roof informed by traditional Kosovan skirts for the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/opera-ballet-theatre-kosovo-big/

Yrj"o Kukkapuro, the Finnish furniture and product designer who dreamt up ideas "until the very end" over more than 70 years of creating, has passed away at his home in Kauniainen at the age of 91. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/postmodernist-finnish-chair-designer-yrjo-kukkapuro-dies/

Swedish studio MatssonMarnell invited Stockholm Design Week visitors to the home of co-founder Magda Marnell, where local designers showcased beeswax candles, sculptural chairs and hairy lamps. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/matssonmarnell-one-day-exhibition-stockholm-design-week/

Ecological concerns and the pressures of the modern world mean designers no longer have the luxury of seeing their work as a form of self-expression, Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/naoto-fukasawa-interview/

Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has worked with architecture studio Situ to examine the proposed international crime of domicide in Patterns of Life, an installation at the Smithsonian Design Triennial at New York's Cooper Hewitt museum. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/patterns-of-life-smithsonian-design-trienniale-domicide/

Montreal-based designer Ying Gao has created a pair of garments embedded with soft mirrors and eye-tracking robotic components that transform when people look at them. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/10/ying-gao-all-mirrors-collection/

Waxed plaster walls, rainbow onyx surfaces and an olive tree create a spa-like atmosphere inside the store that Canadian studio Ste Marie has designed for luggage brand Monos. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/09/monos-ossington-toronto-store-ste-marie/

Architecture studio Urko S'anchez Architects has created a series of classrooms for a school in Nairobi, Kenya, which are wrapped in wooden logs to blend into their forested surroundings. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/09/urko-sanchez-architects-nairobi-school/

For our latest lookbook, we've rounded up eight retail spaces that use metal to define their interiors, demonstrating its ability to elevate the shopping experience. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/09/metallic-retail-interiors-lookbooks/

Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has worked with architecture studio Situ to examine the proposed international crime of domicide in Patterns of Life, an installation at the Smithsonian Design Triennial at New York's Cooper Hewitt museum. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/09/patterns-of-life-smithsonian-design-trienniale-domicide/