Dezeen's top 10 architecture and design videos of 2025
Next in our review of 2025, we select 10 of the best videos produced by Dezeen this year, including look inside postmodern landmark The Cosmic House and a sculptural exhibition transforming cardboard into icy, crystalline forms.
Across the year, the Dezeen Studio team also captured a cinematic study of the quiet spatial language of contemporary Korean architecture, filmed a kinetic Milan installation that flexes and reshapes with human touch, and produced explainers examining major design movements.
Read on for Dezeen's top 10 architecture and design videos of 2025:
In this video, Dezeen takes viewers inside The Cosmic House in west London, the postmodern home designed by architectural historian Charles Jencks together with his wife, landscape designer Maggie Keswick Jencks.
The project also involved collaborations with leading postmodern architects, including Terry Farrell and Michael Graves, who helped shape the house's distinctive character.
The film highlights the building's spatial layout, symbolic elements and use of geometry and explains how the house contributed to the development of postmodern architecture in the UK.
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Serpentine Pavilion 2025 video interview with Marina Tabassum
Dezeen interviewed Marina Tabassum about her design for the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, which draws on climatic principles and community-based building practices from Bangladesh.
The video details how the pavilion was designed to promote natural ventilation, filtered light and adaptable occupation, with Tabassum situating the commission within her wider research into displacement and environmental response.
Find out more about the Serpentine Pavilion 2025 ›
Marina Tabassum design-process interview for the Serpentine Pavilion
In a related video, Dezeen spoke to Tabassum earlier in the year about the research underpinning the pavilion.
She discussed early models, the study of vernacular spatial systems and the process of modifying regional construction strategies for the London context. The film offers insight into how the design developed prior to construction.
Watch the design-process interview ›
Design You Can Feel installation video for ASUS and Dezeen
This video takes viewers inside Studio INI's London workspace, where founder Nassia Inglessis discusses a series of past projects while developing an early concept for ASUS and Dezeen's Design You Can Feel exhibition for Milan design week.
The film traces how her previous experiments with movement and material behaviour inform the ideas she begins to test for the installation, which later took the form of Willful Wonder – a corridor-like structure with winged panels that opened and closed in response to visitors' movement.
Find out more about Design You Can Feel ›
Everything you need to know about art deco video
As part of Dezeen's ongoing explainer series, features editor Nat Barker outlined the origins and defining characteristics of the art deco movement.
The film traces the style's development across architecture, interiors and consumer products, highlighting international examples and identifying recurring motifs, geometries and materials.
Watch the Art Deco explainer ›
Five most impactful chair designs of mid-century modernism video
Dezeen created a video examining five influential mid-century modern chairs, focusing on their construction techniques, material innovations and influence on later design.
Archival images and commentary outline how each chair contributed to developments in ergonomics, manufacturing and modernist form. The video formed part of Dezeen's mid-century modern design series.
Find out more about mid-century chairs ›
Green-roofed housing community by Shibanee & Kamal Architects
Dezeen documented a housing community in Texas designed by Shibanee & Kamal Architects, featuring curved green roofs integrated into the surrounding terrain.
The video shows how the terraced volumes and shaded circulation routes aim to mitigate heat and connect residents with nature, while the architects explain the project's environmental rationale.
Watch the green-roofed community video ›
Dirty Looks exhibition video at the Barbican
This video captures Dirty Looks, an exhibition at the Barbican that examines the subversive use of dirt within fashion.
Barbican curators discuss how designers have used dirt to challenge conventions around glamour, order and acceptability, while the film records the range of installations on display, from soil-based works to pieces exploring surface residue.
Find out more about Dirty Looks ›
Frozen Forms exhibition video at the Anchorage Museum
Dezeen documented Frozen Forms, an exhibition by designer Noa Haim and the Anchorage Museum featuring large-scale cardboard sculptures inspired by the crystalline structures of ice.
The video shows how the folded and layered cardboard elements were assembled to explore form, repetition and structural logic, reflecting the museum's ongoing research into northern materials and environments.
Find out more about Frozen Forms ›
Kia EV5 x Seongok Seowon Academy video
Dezeen travelled to Korea to film a video pairing Kia's EV5 model with Seung H-Sang's Seongok Academy, a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Confucian educational complex.
The film records the relationship between the academy's courtyards, timber structures and circulation routes, exploring how the project draws from historic Korean spatial organisation.
Find out more about the Kia EV5 x Seongok Academy project ›
Work with Dezeen Studio
These films form part of Dezeen Studio's ongoing work producing design-led video content in collaboration with architects, designers, brands and cultural institutions around the world.
To explore more of Dezeen Studio's recent video projects, watch our showreel, or get in touch with sales@dezeen.com to discuss potential collaborations in 2026.
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