This week we wrapped up 2025

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This week wrapped: Quick notes

This 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.

Read our complete Review of 2025 here.

We rounded up the most interesting uses of AI from 2025

We also selected eight actually interesting uses of AI from the past year, including a robo housekeeper, which was clad head-to-toe in beige knitwear.

The most popular AI-focused story of the year was about a bedside device that allows users to replay their dreams as short animated videos.

Blue Temple unveiled low-cost bamboo homes in Myanmar

In Myanmar, architecture studio Blue Temple unveiled a series of low-cost bamboo homes capable of withstanding natural disasters.

Created in collaboration with construction company Housing Now, the modular structures can each be built in just seven days for “the price of a smartphone”, according to the studio.

A self-built treehouse was one of this week’s most popular projects

Popular projects this week included a self-built treehouse in a Swiss valley, a curved brick extension to Victorian house in Edinburgh and a symmetrical home for two DJs.

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