This week on Dezeen, we looked back at the biggest architecture and design stories of 2019, and looked forward to the upcoming projects of the new year.
To bring 2019 to a close, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft rounded up the most popular stories of the past 12 months, which included architects and designers' alternative proposals for rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral after the fire in April.
The list also included Elon Musk's Neuralink project, which saw the entrepreneur reveal plans to build implants that connect the brain with computer interfaces, and a drone video revealing a development of hundreds of abandoned chateaux in Turkey.
Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2019
Dezeen also paid tribute to the architects and designers we lost in 2019, including fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, German lighting designer Ingo Maurer, and Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei. American artist Syd Mead, who created visual concept or numerous sci-fi films including Blade Runner and Tron, also passed away this week.
12 buildings to look forward to in 2020
Looking ahead to the new year, Dezeen's Lizzie Crook selected 12 of the most exciting new buildings opening in 2020, including the Datong Art Museum in China by Foster + Partners and the Zaha Hadid-designed Bee'ah Headquarters in the UAE.
In an opinion piece Aaron Betsky pondered what the next decade will hold for architecture. The 2020s "will see the return of the real", he argued.
Zaha Hadid Arch...