Dezeen Awards 2026 launches and adds new Regional Showcases

Today we're launching Dezeen Awards 2026, in partnership with Trimble, our new headline sponsor, beginning this year's search for the best buildings, interiors and designs around the world.

Alongside our 49 project awards, this year we've made one significant and exciting addition. For our 2026 edition, we will publish three Top 50 lists that celebrate the best projects in three regions globally: Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.

Every project entered into this year's awards can also be entered into the Regional Showcases. Our world-renowned judges will continue to choose the winners of Dezeen Awards, while these new...

House CR / SO Arquitetura & Design

© Ivo Tavares Studio architects: SO Arquitetura & DesignLocation: Lagoa, PortugalProject Year: 2025Photograph: Ivo Tavares StudioArea: 250.0 m2

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Plans unveiled for Australia's first new city in over 100 years

American studio SOM and Australian studio Hassell have revealed plans for Bradfield City, a new, 114-hectare city in western Sydney, which is set to include 10,000 homes, a university campus and a two-hectare park.

Planned to be located beside the recently-completed Western Sydney International Airport, the Bradfield City masterplan proposes an urban landscape roughly 50 kilometres west of Sydney's central business district, conceptualised as "Sydney's new urban heart".

The masterplan forms one of Australia's largest urban development projects and, once complete, will be the country's first major city built in over a century, according to SOM.

The West

Some pictures from the west of the USA.

Introducing the 75 Finalists of the ArchDaily 2026 Building of the Year Awards

Two weeks and over 85,000 nominations later, the finalists of this year's Building of the Year Awards are in. The selection is much like the ArchDaily audience that chose it: diverse in geography, generous in ideas, and precise in intent. With projects from 46 countries, in a variety of typologies and scales, they present a beautiful snapshot of the current architectural moment.

We invite you to sit back, browse, and vote for your ultimate favorites. Below, you will find all of the 75 finalists in their respective categories. Voting is...

Note Design Studio envisions Lammhults showroom as hub for creative collaboration

During Stockholm Design Days, furniture brand Lammhults Design Group opened a showroom created by Note Design Studio to provide a neutral backdrop for presenting its range of contract furniture.

The company, which includes the Lammhults, Abstracta, Fora Form and Ragnars brands, wanted to develop a space to highlight its more unified offering while strengthening each brand's unique identity.

The showroom was designed by Note, whose co-founder Cristiano Pigazzini is now responsible for the group's creative direction in his role as creative advisor.

The project involved stripping back the unit located at Norrlandsgatan...

The forest | Watercolor painting series

This project is a watercolor art exploration of the forest, where the urban and natural worlds intersect. The paintings transform trees and paths into a space of visual contemplation, integrating graphic signs in ways that feel familiar yet strangely out of place. By merging the forest's atmosphere with elements of urban signaling, the work examines perception, orientation, and the subtle tension between reality and suggestion. Each painting invites viewers to slow down, observe, and reflect on how signs shape understanding within both natural and constructed spaces.

EthosEQ study finds Mute Modular rooms "far more economically efficient than traditional constructions"

Promotion: cost consultancy EthosEQ has completed a report for workplace furniture brand Mute, which found that Mute's Modular, a room-in-room office system, reduces businesses' costs and emissions.

Commissioned by Poland-based Mute, the study can be downloaded as a free PDF.

It concluded that swapping a traditionally built office room for a modular alternative can save businesses a significant amount of money and also improve their carbon performance when leasing workspaces.

The research involved analysing results from 27 cities across three different continents.

EthosEQ compared the difference between meeting rooms built using Mute Modular, Mute's adaptable...

Spatial Festival

Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home

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Jason Mitcham’s childhood home in Greensboro, North Carolina, is no longer standing. In 2011, the local government seized the house and the land he grew up on via eminent domain to widen what was then High Point Road into what’s now Gate City Boulevard. Mitcham last saw the site in 2023, when a paved highway blanketed where the neighborhood once stood, and fragments of garages and barns still marked the landscape.

To memorialize this beloved landmark, Mitcham hand-painted “Ever Behind the Sunset,” a touching stop-motion film that combines a series of expressive compositions with audio from the artist’s mother and his...