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 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.
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.
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 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.
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”.
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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