February Practices

FOG Architecture designs Beijing spa to be more than a "quiet place"

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has designed warm and relaxing interiors for YUSPA in Beijing, China, using subtle transitions of lighting and materials.

FOG Architecture designed the YUSPA retail spa within the Sanlitun shopping district to give customers a multi-sensory experience.

"The design guides customers into a relaxed and immersive state through gradual changes in light, materials, and circulation, all focusing on healing as its core theme," explained FOG Architecture.

"The goal is not to create a superficial 'quiet place', but to construct a multi-sensory, rhythmically distinct spatial experience system."

Eight exemplary projects that showcase sustainable design

To inspire your entries to Dezeen Awards, we have rounded-up some of our favourite sustainable architecture and interiors projects from previous shortlisted submissions.

For every entry, we ask if your project is useful and considerate to both people and planet and how it shows respect and consideration for users and the environment.

However some projects, like these shortlisted submissions from past years, go above and beyond. We continue to support and champion these projects with our five sustainability categories, which are sustainable building, sustainable renovation, sustainable interior, sustainable design and material innovation.

Have you got a project to enter into our sustainability categories?...

Architecture as a Platform: What Makes a Building Evolve?

Centre Georges Pompidou / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Richard Rogers. Image © Kiev.Victor / Shutterstock

Not long ago, recent enough to feel current, architecture entered a moment in which buildings became legible as products. The framing offered discipline and a refreshed perspective to an industry that often deems novelty more precious than operational clarity. Nudging exercises of "form" towards repeatability, user experience, performance, and scalability prepared buildings to be a "product" that could now be evaluated. Architecture is more answerable to how well it works, how clearly it communicates...

Understanding U-Value: The Foundation of Energy-Efficient Envelopes

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Much more than merely as a protective skin, the building envelope functions as a thermal regulator that influences operational energy demand, indoor comfort, and long-term efficiency. And before renewable systems or mechanical strategies are introduced, performance begins in section. The way walls, roofs, windows and floors are layered determines how much heat is lost in winter, gained in summer, and ultimately how much energy a building consumes. At the center of this evaluation lies a fundamental metric: the thermal transmittance, or U-value. Understanding how to calculate it...

Настройка количества товаров с мусоркой

Иногда встречается такой дизайн элемента для настройки количества товаров в корзине, где вместо минуса рисуют мусорку — мол, товар уже удалится, а не просто уменьшится количество:

Сначала это кажется логичным, ведь уменьшение количества и удаление — разные вещи, и выглядеть должны по-разному. Возможно, кто-то из дизайнеров в этом видит возможность дополнительно предупредить об удалении. Наверное, кому-то просто кажется остроумной такая динамичность.

Но вообще-то хорошо бы, чтобы при уменьшении количества до нуля, товар не удалялся сразу: у пользователя должно быть право на ошибку и возможность вернуть товар обратно. Если же удаление товара неотменяемое, то превращение минуса в мусорку не поможет предотвратить ошибку; тогда надо дисейблить минус, а кнопку удаления ставить отдельно. Что касается остроумности, то это только в голове дизайнера мусорка — частный случай минуса для одного значения, но для пользователя...

MXarchitecture installs back-to-back homes in Paris suburb

Paris studio MXarchitecture has built 2in1 Houses, a pair of three-bedroom homes that butt up against each other on a suburban plot in the east of the French capital.

The 2in1 Houses at Noisy-le-Sec were designed as family homes, each with three storeys and a basement. Both have a balcony and a separate driveway and entrance, although the rear-facing home is the only one with a garden.

The interiors are laid out with staircases and bathrooms against the party wall, creating an additional layer of acoustic privacy between the two...

Tola Ojuolape designs textured green lounge space for Collect 2026

In this exclusive interview produced by Dezeen, designer Tola Ojuolape explains the design process for her Collectors' Lounge on show at this year's Collect 2026.

Collect is an art fair for collectable design and contemporary craft, hosted by the UK Craft Council over four days. Located in London's Somerset House, the fair brought together over 300 artists and galleries from across the globe.

Ojuolape was commissioned by 3D modelling software brand Trimble SketchUp to create a lounge space using its proprietary software for the Collect 2026 fair.

Ojuolape's lounge space was envisioned as a...

Visual Macro Forms

Macro visual forms photographed in the orangery in the botanical garden.

Orionteatern

Orionteatern is a cultural institution with an impressive history of bold, unconventional performing arts experiences. However, it lacked a clear visual identity and turned to us for a solution that would reflect the strength of its own content. The wordmark has historically appeared in various versions of Futura. Inspired by this visual heritage, the core of the new identity is a typographic system that is simple, yet striking and flexible. Using a Futura-inspired typeface and a strong, minimal design concept ? where the word "Orion" extends leftward ? we created a scalable identity that delivers instant recognition across signage, posters, and...