DETAIL Readers' Favorites 2025
Your Interiors & Design Highlights of the Year
The residential building in the Uckermark region impresses with its open-plan layout and flexible structure. The concept shows how flowing spaces enable versatile and contemporary living. © @pg.architektur
A historic settler's house from the early 1900s underwent a radical makeover: Berlin architect Peter Grundmann redesigned the building, which had been extended several times, into a modern family home for a couple with a child. The concept: the old building was carefully integrated into the design, retaining openings and structures. The kitchen, living, dining, and music areas merge into a flowing spatial continuum on the ground floor. In the attic, a 10-meter-long steel footbridge spans between spacious air spaces as a striking detail. The single-family home is a successful example of respectful treatment of existing structures and thoughtful material selection. The use of exposed screed in combination with the old brick walls and pine plywood panels for walls, sloping ceilings, and fixtures creates an honest, raw material aesthetic that sensitively combines old and new. Read more
The Rooted Potential Pavilion near Copenhagen is constructed from bio-based materials. © Kristian Holm
The experimental pavilion “Rooted Potential” is a research project that explores the potential of ten native plants from the Copenhagen area for architectural structures. Materials researcher Sara Martinsen selected robust, strong, and yet soft bio-based materials for the construction of the pavilion and processed them into building materials. For example, the side walls consist of linen covers filled with seaweed, which are attached to the pine wood frame with press studs. The aim of the project is not so much to create a permanent building as a temporary space for experimentation – a place that shows how climate-friendly, sensual and creatively exciting sustainable architecture made from local natural resources can be. The pavilion currently serves as accommodation in the designer's summer house. In Jutland, guests can spend a night surrounded by plants that stimulate the senses. Read more
Weekend house on Lake Ziest in Bindow, © David Hiepler
Large bedroom under the roof truss in the existing building, © David Hiepler
At Lake Ziest in Bindow near Berlin, Cama A has carefully revitalized a weekend house from the 1920s while also adding modern extensions. The original brickwork with a tiled roof has been largely restored to its original condition – the entrance, conservatory, and former extensions have been removed. A new two-story wooden extension with a flat roof was added to the long side of the existing building, deliberately creating a visual contrast. Inside, the existing and new buildings combine to form a calm, natural ensemble: the existing building has an open-plan living/dining room with kitchen, above which is a large bedroom under the roof truss. The extension contains another bedroom with double-height ceilings, illuminated by a two-story glass facade that opens up the view of the surrounding landscape. Read more
Further highlights of the year will follow here and on our social media channels. The annual review in Detail 12.2025 brings together personal impressions and encounters from the Detail editorial team.
Gallery
