This week on Dezeen we featured a coffee pot with a helical spiral base

This week on Dezeen, designer Matteo Frontini updated the classic Moka coffee pot by adding a helical spiral base informed by jet engines.

According to the designer, this innovation means that the pot has 93 per cent more surface area and therefore cuts the time needed to brew coffee in half.

Alexandra Hagen portrait — Older men "expected nothing from me" says Alexandra Hagen

White Arkitekter CEO Alexandra Hagen spoke to Dezeen about the experiences, people and beliefs that have shaped her career and about how she decided to view her position as a young woman in a male-dominated field as a positive.

It has also been announced that Hagen will step down as the CEO of White Arkitekter in 2026, with a recruitment process to find her successor currently underway. Information about her next steps has not yet been disclosed.

White House East Wing ballroom plans — White House extension will have "adverse" but not "significant" impacts says NPS

In the US, an environmental assessment by the National Park Service that was recently made public found that it was acceptable for president Donald Trump to demolish the White House's East Wing to make way for a ballroom.

The report stated that "the selected action will not result in significant adverse impacts to the park's cultural landscapes."

Furniture from Bio Pop performance by Bianca Censori — Bianca Censori restrains women's bodies with contortionist furniture

Designer Bianca Censori, the wife of the rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West, unveiled a series of furniture that featured contorted female bodies.

According to Censori, she designed the furniture to illustrate how our homes and the objects within them work to reinforce wider societal power structures.

Dining plates by Gustaf Westman — The best designs of 2025

We continued our Review of 2025, looking at the best design of 2025, the top UK architecture projects of 2025 and the most controversial stories of 2025.

The top US architecture projects of 2025 was one of the most popular stories this week, and we also looked at the most controversial stories published on Dezeen in 2025.

In our feature this week, Dezeen features editor Nat Barker pondered How long should a building last?

Barker spoke with experts about the impetus to design architecture that stands the test of time, which is often driven by concerns about embodied carbon.