This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 winners

This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 winners
Children's hospital by Herzog & de Meuron

This week on Dezeen, we revealed all 60 winners of the Dezeen Awards 2025, including the architecture, interiors and design projects of the year.

A children's hospital by Herzog & de Meuron was named architecture project of the year, with the Symbolplus Office and the J39.5 seating collection receiving the awards for best interior and design project of the year, respectively.

The award for sustainability project of the year was given to Hydro CIRCAL 100R by Hydro.

We also announced the Dezeen Awards 2025 Designers of the Year, while industrial designer Jo Barnard took home the Bentley Lighthouse Award 2025.

Students in lecture theatre
It was revealed that architecture is no longer considered a "professional degree" in the US

In the US, it was revealed that architecture will no longer be considered a professional degree under the terms of president Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

The move, which has been criticised by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), means that loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced.

It was also announced that US architect Robert AM Stern had died at the age of 86. Stern was a long-term dean of Yale University and founder of the architecture studio RAMSA.

Greater Bay Area Sports Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects completed a waterfront stadium in Guangzhou

Other architecture news this week included the devastating fire at Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court high-rise residential complex, which has been blamed on bamboo scaffolding and safety netting that were in place for ongoing renovations. Investigations into the cause and spread of the fire are ongoing.

Zaha Hadid Architects was in the spotlight after it completed a waterfront stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou and revealed its design for a Dubai skyscraper that references Emirati embroidery.

Collectible design
Our Performance Review series continued with a feature that asked if there are too many designers

We continued our Performance Review series by looking at five ways that architecture education needs to change.

In another feature, Dezeen's deputy editor Cajsa Carlson asked if there are too many designers.

Carbon Cell foam
Carbon Cell unveiled a biochar-based packaging prototype

In the design world, Carbon Cell revealed its prototype for an alternative to polystyrene packaging and building insulation.

Designed to minimise plastic pollution, the lightweight foam is made from biochar – a renewable material formed by heating biomass through pyrolysis.

The Rausing Science Centre for The King's School in Canterbury by Walters & Cohen
Readers enjoyed a flint-clad school building in Canterbury

Projects that turned Dezeen readers' heads this week included a flint-clad school building in Canterbury, a Buenos Aires skyscraper designed as a "geographical feature" and a glass-floored viewpoint that cantilevers over a Tibetan canyon.

Our latest lookbook showcased living spaces anchored by statement fireplaces.

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