Dezeen's 2025 Year in Review: Top Architecture Projects and AI Innovations
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Tom Ravenscroft
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Summary
Dezeen's year-end wrap-up for 2025 highlights the most interesting stories from the year, including top Chinese architecture projects, mass-timber buildings, and innovative uses of AI. The article serves as a comprehensive review of the year's notable design and architecture developments.
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· 3 pulledThis week on Dezeen, we wrapped up the year by looking back at the most interesting stories from 2025.
Continuing our review of the year we took a look at the top 10 Chinese architecture projects of the year along with the top mass-timber buildings of 2025.
We rounded up the most interesting uses of AI from 2025
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