This week on Dezeen, we showcased the sector’s quality structure, interiors, layout and sustainability initiatives in conjunction with pronouncing the nominees for Designers of the Year in our Dezeen prize 2025 shortlist reveal.

This year’s Dezeen prize structure shortlist became introduced on Monday and protected initiatives along with House for Julia, a kid’s hospice designed as a “contemporary-day sanctuary” through structure studio Čtyřstěn Architekti (above).

This became observed on Tuesday through our interiors shortlist, which protected Spanish studio Isern Serra’s layout for a Barcelona modelling agency (below).

On Wednesday, initiatives which includes the Hermès homeware series proven at Milan layout week made the layout shortlist, at the same time as the sustainability shortlist on Thursday featured paintings along with Finland’s biggest mass-wood constructing.

Yesterday’s statement of the Designers of the Year shortlist protected nominations for Kéré Architecture, Iris van Herpen and India Mahdavi, and our Bentley Lighthouse prize nominees might be discovered on Monday.

In layout information this week, laptop organisation Microsoft unveiled the up to date trademarks for its Office applications, which marks their first redecorate on the grounds that 2018.

The refresh of the trademarks shows “how AI is transferring the field of layout and the character of product development”, Microsoft said.

After the current finish of British architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, structure critic Catherine Slessor wrote an opinion piece discussing how their careers had been intertwined, but exceptionally distinct.

Their finish mark the give up of an era, in step with Slessor.

“That surprisingly influential ‘britischer Architekt’ technology of guys who grew up toying with Meccano and went directly to alternate the sector is in the end leaving the stage,” she wrote.

Author Dominic Bradbury selected 8 post-strugglefare houses that “nevertheless have instructions to educate us” from his ee-e book Post-War Homes: Mid-Century British Architecture. Among the 8 homes featured are Eric Lyons and Span’s Fieldend in London, above.

“The desire became absolutely pushed through choosing exemplary case research of homes and housing which nevertheless have instructions to educate us today,” Bradbury advised Dezeen.

In Milan, worldwide structure studio SOM discovered its finished 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes’ Village in Porta Romana, with the intention to be was studio housing after the games. It incorporates six mass-wood residential homes and tailored anciental homes.

Also in Milan, structure studio Foster + Partners is about to layout the alternative for the long-lasting San Siro stadium after a sale of the present constructing became accepted through Milan’s metropolis council.

The renovated Quay Quarter Tower through Danish structure 3XN and Australian studio BVN in Sydney, Australia, have become the first-ever constructing to be nominated for Prince William’s Eartshot Prize.

“Quay Quarter Tower is the sector’s first fully ‘upcycled skyscraper’ and the maximum complete constructing transformation ever tried at this scale,” the organisers said.