Cajsa Carlson

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series, Performance Review, which will explore the multitude of issues plaguing the architecture and design industry.

The inaugural edition of design show Alter in Tokyo exhibited works by 56 creatives, including "nearly invisible" window blinds and a chair covered in layers of washi paper.

This week on Dezeen, we reported on the news that the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum has reached completion in Giza by Heneghan Peng Architects..

Designer Luke Edward Hall used antique furniture and hessian wallpaper to make visitors "feel very at home" at the Deux Gares Express restaurant in Paris.

Furniture brand Massproductions has collaborated with its Stockholm neighbour, lifestyle brand Arket, on a capsule collection that features both new products and reimagined existing designs.

The annual Southern Sweden Design Days festival in Malmö, Sweden, has announced that it will not hold an event in 2026, instead taking a year off to refine its format and "build on the strong foundation" it has created.

Artist Takashi Murakami and fashion brand Louis Vuitton have created a giant inflatable octopus informed by Chinese lanterns, which has been installed at the newly restored Grand Palais museum in Paris in time for Art Basel.

Architecture studio MAD has designed a "giant mattress" at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture that comforts people standing next to it by illuminating and releasing cooling water mist.

For our latest lookbook, we've collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a "dripping shampoo" ceiling.

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite it unveiled at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair.

Danish furniture brand Fredericia worked with local studio Flooat for the launch of its first showroom in Tokyo, which has a minimalist interior that nods to its location in an industrialist concrete building.

Swedish trade show Stockholm Furniture Fair will not be holding a previously planned 2026 edition, instead announcing a "reimagined and renewed" return in 2027.

Architecture studio Henning Larsen has won the competition to design a swimming pool to replace Gothenburg's historic Valhallabadet with a timber-framed building that will also house sports facilities.

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone.

Architect Søren Pihlmann has transformed a 1960s factory into a Copenhagen community hub, creating furniture out of old doors and "flipping" concrete floors into stairs.

I IN has created Blue Bottle Coffee's Valley Fair Kiosk in California, which has a minimalist design and was prefabricated from stainless steel.

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A pared-back concrete showroom with an arched glass-brick ceiling sits next to a historic salon filled with collectible design at fashion brand Acne Studios' latest headquarters.

Italian studio NM3 and architect Silvia Guerrini have created a pared-back store interior for fashion brand Miss Sixty in Milan, which juxtaposes gleaming steel and bright yellow hues with nude tones and amber glass screens.

Fashion brand Bottega Veneta has opened a pop-up shop at London department store Harrods with an interlocking shelving system that draws on modernist architecture.