For the latest in our review of 2025, we explore the best hotel designs of the year – from a surrealist hotel by Philippe Starck to an Oaxaca hotel modelled on pre-Hispanic pyramids. The hospitality
Sheep Inc combines cork and wool walls for “flagsheep store”
Interior designer Mark Brown used cork and wool to create natural, tactile interiors for clothing brand Sheep Inc’s first store, in London. Dubbed its “flagsheep store”, the shop in Carnaby Street is
ZAO/standardarchitecture snakes concrete art gallery around courtyard in China
Chinese studio ZAO/standardarchitecture has created the Xiao Feng Art Museum in Hangzhou, housing galleries within an angular concrete form that loops around a central courtyard. Located at the foot o
Designing Action: COLLINS, McKibben, and the Birth of Sun Day
Sun Day, conceived by Bill McKibben and Denis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day, is less about what’s missing in the fight for clean energy and more about how design can help complete the circle.
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Kazunari Sakamoto creates art library in Shanghai museum for Chanel
Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto has renovated the third floor of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art museum, transforming it into an art library named Espace Gabrielle Chanel. Espace Gabrielle Chane
Craft, Type, Print, and Passion Come Together in Fraise
The UK collab between Synth, Dalton Maag, and GF Smith celebrates the art of the passion project with a talk, an OOH campaign, and a collectible printed specimen.
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‘Body of Work’: 100 Days by Micah Jones
For Micah Jones’ 100 Day project, skin was the canvas for daily tattoos of the life experiences that shaped who he is.
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Soaring metal roof tops rural Japanese office by Permanent
A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studio Permanent. Located in Hashima, the offic
Eight shadowy bedrooms that are perfect for the spooky season
Horror-film-style wood panelling and charcoal-coloured sheets feature in this lookbook of moody bedrooms to pore over this Halloween weekend. Located across the globe in homes from Mexico to Ukraine,
Bianca Censori restrains women’s bodies with contortionist furniture
Designer Bianca Censori, the wife of the rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West, has created a series of tables and chairs in which the female body becomes part of the furniture. The pieces, with