This week on Dezeen, we rounded up the best architecture, design and interiors posts of the year, taking in the most controversial stories, the best quotes from Dezeen's many interviews and a slew of interesting interiors.
The biggest trends in architecture this year ranged from the serious to the playful. Responses to big topics, such as the controversy over unpaid internships and climate change, sat alongside under-the-sea architecture and playgrounds for adults.
Some stories proved controversial with our readers, with opinions divided over a chair that offers a solution to "manspreading" and whether architects will lose their jobs to artificial intelligence.
In interiors, we looked at the best restaurants as well as notable shop fit-outs. These included a pastel-coloured New York CBD store and new iterations of designer clothing stores Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton. "Fictional reality" of North Korea's architecture revealed in Model City Pyongyang
Photographs of Pyongyang, Istanbul and Melbourne appeared on Dezeen this week. Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapi? revealed images from their book Model City Pyongyang, which features pictures of architecture in the North Korean capital.
Marc Goodwin added to his series of images of architecture practices around the world, with photographs of firms in Istanbul, whilst Tom Blachford used long exposures and lens rotation for his shots of a "cyberpunk" Melbourne by night.
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