Dezeen Magazine has released its annual selection of the ten most compelling architecture and design videos produced throughout 2025, showcasing a diverse range of projects, interviews, and educational content. The curated list reflects the publication's commitment to visual storytelling and offers viewers an in-depth look at some of the year's most significant developments in the design world. From intimate tours of architectural landmarks to explorations of emerging design movements, the selection demonstrates the power of video to capture spatial experiences and design processes in ways that static images cannot. The Dezeen Studio team spent the year documenting projects across multiple continents, interviewing leading figures, and producing explanatory content that makes complex design concepts accessible to broader audiences.
Among the standout features is an exclusive video tour inside The Cosmic House in West London, the postmodern residence designed by architectural historian Charles Jencks and his wife, landscape designer Maggie Keswick Jencks. The film provides rare access to this iconic home, highlighting its distinctive spatial layout, symbolic elements, and innovative use of geometry. Viewers learn how the house, which involved collaborations with leading postmodern architects Terry Farrell and Michael Graves, contributed significantly to the development of postmodern architecture in the United Kingdom. The video carefully documents the building's playful yet scholarly approach to design, where every surface and space carries meaning.
Another highlight includes two videos focused on Marina Tabassum's 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, offering both an interview with the architect and a deeper look at her design process. In the main interview, Tabassum explains how the pavilion draws on climatic principles and community-based building practices from her native Bangladesh. The film details how the structure promotes natural ventilation, filters light, and allows for adaptable occupation, situating the commission within her broader research into displacement and environmental response. The companion design-process interview reveals early models, studies of vernacular spatial systems, and the challenges of modifying regional construction strategies for London's context, providing valuable insight into how architectural ideas evolve from concept to reality.
The selection also features Studio INI's Design You Can Feel installation, created for ASUS and Dezeen's Milan design week exhibition. The video takes viewers inside the London workspace of founder Nassia Inglessis as she develops early concepts for what would become Willful Wonder, a corridor-like structure with winged panels that opened and closed in response to visitors' movement. Additionally, Dezeen's popular explainer series is represented by a comprehensive overview of the Art Deco movement, tracing its origins and defining characteristics across architecture, interiors, and consumer products. Another educational video examines five influential mid-century modern chairs, analyzing their construction techniques, material innovations, and lasting impact on ergonomics and manufacturing.
Several videos document completed projects and exhibitions, including a green-roofed housing community in Texas designed by Shibanee & Kamal Architects, featuring curved roofs integrated into the surrounding terrain. The Dirty Looks exhibition at the Barbican examines how fashion designers use dirt to challenge conventions around glamour and order, while the Frozen Forms exhibition at the Anchorage Museum showcases large-scale cardboard sculptures inspired by ice crystalline structures. The final video pairs Kia's EV5 model with Seung H-Sang's Seongok Academy in Korea, exploring how the contemporary Confucian educational complex draws from historic Korean spatial organization.
These films represent Dezeen Studio's ongoing mission to produce design-led video content in collaboration with architects, designers, brands, and cultural institutions worldwide. The studio's work demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of how to translate architectural and design experiences into compelling visual narratives. For those interested in exploring more of Dezeen Studio's projects, a showreel is available online, and potential collaborators can contact sales@dezeen.com to discuss projects for 2026. The complete top 10 list is available on Dezeen's website, offering hours of immersive content for design enthusiasts and professionals alike.
