Design

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. Photo by Juliusz Sokołowski (also top) Plato Contemporary Art Gallery, Czech Republic, by KWK Promes One of the most ambitious […]

Architecture studio MAD Architects has unveiled a round pavilion topped with a distinctive roof called The Never Hut in Foshan, China. Created for The Guangdong Nanhai Land Art Festival, the round hut in the village of Yanqiao sits alongside a river on the site of a school’s former playground. MAD Architect has unveiled the Never

Home gyms have long been a haven for the fitness-conscious—a place where routines are carved out of convenience and commitment. But for all their appeal, they’ve often felt like a compromise. You trade the expertise of a trainer and the energy of a studio for privacy and ease, left to wonder if your form is

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One of the biggest use case proposals for home robots, at least next to cleaning floors, is the care of older members of the family. Whether it’s reminding them of their medication or delivering the newspaper to their side, these rolling robots are imagined to give much-needed assistance to less ambulant members of the household.

As long as a chair is something I can sit on and I’m pretty comfortable, I’d take any kind of chair. But of course there are designs and concepts of chairs that bring a different dimension to a functional piece of furniture. Some of those well-designed chairs though can be quite uncomfortable, particularly the backrest.

There are many reasons why sometimes kids are left to play alone or entertain themselves. Oftentimes the “babysitter” would be a phone or tablet or any gadget but of course these are mostly passive activities and they cannot totally interact with it. Of course actual contact with human beings would be the most ideal but

New York-based designer Billy Cotton has blended art deco, futurist and brutalist references inside this restaurant in Lower Manhattan. For the first restaurant interior in his two-decade career, Cotton has designed Bridges as an homage to lively Parisian bistros while including plenty of “New York character”. Banquettes built from cherry wood and featuring black leather