A modular timber frame doubles as shelving, seating and storage at this angular home in Bavaria, designed by German practice Lux Architect and Spanish studio Cánovas Arquitectura.

An impressive array of architects, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Heatherwick Studio, Le Corbusier to Álvaro Siza, have designed structures at world fairs, or expos. Here we round up the 12 most significant.

Expo 2025 recently opened in Osaka with pavilions designed by leading architects including Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban and Lina Ghotmeh. But what actually is an expo, anyway?

Dezeen Showroom: Dubai-based brand Fronteriors worked with American interior design studio Prime Projects on a range of cabinetry with arc-shaped details designed to be combined with IKEA storage.

Two French baroque mansions and a 19th-century factory have been transformed into Locke Hotels' latest outpost in Paris, designed by interiors studio Fettle.

With just four weeks left until entries close, Dezeen Awards judges, including architect Simon Allford, interior designer Tatjana Von Stein and designer Benjamin Hubert, explained more about the positive impacts of winning an award.

Taking design cues from her travels in the Mediterranean, designer Sheree Commerford worked with artists and craftspeople to turn a seaside inn in Yamba, Australia, into a self-check-in hotel.

NYCxDesign, Venice Architecture Biennale and Clerkenwell Design Week are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this May.

Toronto-based studio Superkül has created a gabled house in a forest clearing in Grey County, Canada, with a monochromatic colour scheme that emphasises the building's distinct roofline

The terraced, pixelated King Toronto Residences urban development, designed by Danish architecture studio BIG, is under construction in Toronto, Canada, with move-ins planned for next year.

Dezeen Showroom: from a lamp made from ocean-bound plastic to lights with rotatable shades, the following lighting designs have recently been published on Dezeen Showroom.

Transforming "contemporary ruins" into public activations can offer healing for local communities, says Limbo Accra founder Dominique Petit-Frère at a Dezeen talk filmed in partnership with SCAD in Savannah, Georgia.

Dezeen Competitions: TerraViva's UNESCO Ancient Theatre – Valorising an Extraordinary Historical Heritage competition invites designers to enhance the site of an ancient theatre.

Dezeen Showroom: Dutch lighting design studio Brand Van Egmond aimed to capture the poetry of motion in this chandelier, which is composed of intertwining lengths of metal.