This week we revealed Dezeen's favourite buildings of 2024

This week on Dezeen, we looked back at the Dezeen team's favourite buildings of the year and continued our review of 2024. The Dezeen editorial team each picked their one favourite building of 2024, with the selection ranging from a Swiss hospital to a brick workshop in Vietnam. Continuing our review of the best architecture The post This week we revealed Dezeen's favourite buildings of 2024 appeared first on Dezeen.

Dec 21, 2024 - 23:00
This week we revealed Dezeen's favourite buildings of 2024
Terra Cotta Workshop by Tropical Space

This week on Dezeen, we looked back at the Dezeen team's favourite buildings of the year and continued our review of 2024.

The Dezeen editorial team each picked their one favourite building of 2024, with the selection ranging from a Swiss hospital to a brick workshop in Vietnam.

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Our 2024 review included the year's top 10 product designs

Continuing our review of the best architecture and design of the year, we rounded up the top 10 product designs of 2024.

We also looked back at the top US architecture projects, house extensions, books and exhibitions.

Nytillverkad collection 2025 by IKEA
IKEA is re-releasing 10 vintage products

In design news, IKEA announced that it is set to re-release some of its most celebrated vintage designs from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

In total, the retailer is reissuing 10 products, including a steel-framed shelf designed by Niels Gammelgaard in 1978 and Gillis Lundgren's 1973 Tajt fold-out lounge chair.

Brutalist building with pillars
We interviewed The Brutalist's director

This week also saw the opening of The Brutalist film, which focuses on the story of a fictional, Bauhaus-trained architect, in US cinemas.

In an exclusive interview the film's director, and co-writer, Brady Corbet told Dezeen that "there is no more controversial style of architecture" than brutalism.

Elon Musk portrait
Elon Musk claimed a transatlantic tunnel could be built for $20 billion

Elon Musk was back in the news this week, as the tech mogul claimed that The Boring Company could create a tunnel from London to New York for $20 billion.

He made the claim in response to reports in the news that a transatlantic tunnel is estimated to cost around $20 trillion.

Sinking Miami skyscrpers
Over 30 skyscrapers in Miami are sinking

In the US, a report revealed that 35 skyscrapers in the barrier islands of Miami had been affected by sinking or "subsidence" since 2016.

According to the report by the University of Miami, the sinking was "related to construction activities".

Dior Golden House concept store in Bangkok
Dior's Gold House was the most-read project on Dezeen this week

Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included Dior's Gold House concept store in Bangkok, a cuboidal primary school in rural Austria and a holiday cabin with a hat-shaped roof.

This week's lookbook featured bedrooms illuminated by creative lighting solutions.

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