This week on Dezeen, we shared all the information you need about Egypt’s giant New Administrative Capital, located 45 kilometres to the east of Cairo, for which whole districts are already complete.
Called New Administrative Capital, the city is being constructed on 700 square kilometres of largely undeveloped land halfway between Cairo and Suez.
It will contain the main functions of Egypt’s government and is being built to relieve congestion and pollution in Cairo, though critics have said the aim of its existence might be to reduce the possibility of mass government protests.
In design news, we rounded up 10 must-see installations, exhibitions and projects at 3 Days of Design – the annual Danish design festival starting in Copenhagen next week.
They include Bread and Butter, a travelling exhibition platforming the work of young designers, an exhibition by Swedish furniture brand Hem and a unique look into Danish architecture brand BIG’s headquarters.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) revealed the 10 winners of its 2025 Architecture Awards, including an astronomy museum in Shanghai by Ennead Architects.
“Great architecture is not just about buildings; it is about creating spaces that uplift, connect, and inspire,” said AIA president Evelyn Lee.
Technology company Apple unveiled its latest software update, iOS 26, which will feature its translucent Liquid Glass design.
The new design will be rolled out across all of Apple’s platforms, including phones, computers, watches and TV, as part of what the company says is its “broadest software design update ever”.
In other design news, Italian football club AC Roma released an updated logo that harks back to its original crest from 1927.
It reintroduces Roma’s intertwined ASR monogram, which the club abandoned during a controversial rebrand in 2013, but still features Lupa Capitolina, the wolf that nurtures Romulus and Remus in Rome’s foundation myth.
In London, architect Peter Cook unveiled his joyful Play Pavilion in Kensington Gardens. It was designed for families, children and teenagers and sits alongside this year’s main Serpentine Pavilion by Marina Tabassum.
The domed pavilion has Lego bricks protruding from its facade and aims “to express joy, playfulness, cheerfulness, exuberance, and a little bit of irreverence,” Cook told Dezeen.
Popular projects this week included the renovation of a historic recording studio in Somerset, a Japanese home with built-in, cast-concrete furniture and a resort on the Red Sea with cantilevered hotel pods with mirrored cladding.
Our latest roundup featured seven statement homes crowned by pyramidal roofs.
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