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Behind our fifth advent calendar window is Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who was awarded the 2011 Pritzker Prize and designed the red concrete museum dedicated to artist Paula Rego (pictured) in his home country. See more architecture by Eduardo Souto de Moura » View the full article

The letter F in our festive overview of iconic chairs is represented by French designer Jean Prouvé's Fauteuil Direction armchair. (more…) View the full article

The criss-crossing metal frame that gives this 1968 design the name X-Chair has helped it find its way into our A-Zdvent overview of classic chairs. (more…) View the full article

G is for Frank Gehry in our seventh A-Zdvent calendar window. The American architect's Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao (pictured) famously sparked a trend for cities commissioning iconic buildings as catalysts for regeneration, while other high-profile projects include his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the upcoming new headquarters for Facebook. See more architecture by Frank Gehry » View the full article

The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. (more…) View the full article

Next up in our alphabetical look at the history of chair design – the lightweight Handkerchief office chair designed by husband and wife team Massimo and Lella Vignelli in 1983. (more…) View the full article

Following a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum in Miami this week, our eighth A-Zdvent calendar window features Swiss architecture duo Herzog & de Meuron. Here's a picture of their Vitrahaus showroom shaped like a pile of houses. See more architecture by Herzog & de Meuron » » View the full article

Huge rectangular holes puncture the walls and ceilings of this four-storey split-level house in Tokyo by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects, the next window of our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House T » View the full article

Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. (more…) View the full article

Moving on to J, the next design in our festive alphabetical countdown is the Jam Chair created by Italian studio Archirivolto for Calligaris. (more…) View the full article

Today is the tenth letter in our A-Zdvent calendar and features John Pawson. His British firm remodelled this old church in Augsburg, Germany earlier this year (pictured) and yesterday announced he'll be the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project. See more architecture by John Pawson Architects » View the full article

Three 60-metre-high arches crisscross the deck of the Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge in Brasília, which provides the letter J in our alphabetical countdown to Christmas. (more…) View the full article

Next up in our alphabet of architects is Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect who has completed two contemporary art centres in France this year - the timber-clad art college and music school in Besançon and the FRAC arts centre in Marseille with a chequered glass facade (pictured). See more architecture by Kengo Kuma » View the full article

Marcel Wanders' 1996 Knotted Chair, which marked the Dutch designer's international breakthrough, is the next iconic seat design in our A-Zdvent calendar for this year. (more…) View the full article

Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity informed the structural design of the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

The letter L in our festive countdown of bridges is the Langkawi Sky Bridge, a suspended structure at the top of a mountain on Malaysia's Langkawi archipelago. (more…) View the full article

The letter L in our festive countdown of bridges is the Langkawi Sky Bridge, a suspended structure at the top of a mountain on Malaysia's Langkawi archipelago. (more…) View the full article

We've reached the final day of our festive countdown, so in the first of three final posts today here's Chinese architect Li Xiaodong, whose projects include a school that bridges a creek between two castles and a library clad with firewood (pictured). See more architecture by Li Xiaodong » View the full article

The next instalment in our A-Zdvent calendar is the welded aluminium and fibreglass Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson. (more…) View the full article

Ma Yansong of Beijing studio MAD is the penultimate architect to appear in this year's A-Zdvent calendar. Featured here is his blob-shaped Ordos Museum in the Gobi desert, which is clad in polished metal tiles to resist sandstorms. The firm also recently presented a masterplan for China where buildings are designed to look like mountains and public spaces overlap with the natural landscape. See more architecture by MAD architects » View the full article

Transparent resin blocks peppered with flowers form the seat and arms of the Miss Blanche Chair by Shiro Kuramata – letter M in our alphabetical Christmas countdown. (more…) View the full article

N is the next letter in our A-Zdvent calendar, represented by Emeco's lightweight aluminium Navy Chair designed for use on US submarines. (more…) View the full article

Behind our sixth A-Zdvent calendar window is British architect Norman Foster. One of his most famous buildings is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters completed in 1986 (pictured) and his firm Foster + Partners this week revealed its collaboration with designer Thomas Heatherwick on a finance centre that is currently under construction in Shanghai. See more architecture by Foster + Partners » View the full article

Following our exclusive interview with Rem Koolhaas last month, Dutch office OMA is the fifteenth entry to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Koolhaas' firm recently completed De Rotterdam, a 44-storey group of interconnected glass towers in the architect's home city, and has also built two skyscrapers in China - the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (pictured) and the CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing. See more architecture by OMA » View the full article

N stands for late Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in our fourteenth festive A-Zdvent calendar. This image by photographer Pedro Kok depicts the entrance to the Ibirapuera Auditorium in Sao Paulo, completed in 2005, while the architect's most famous projects include the National Congress of Brazil and the Cathedral of Brasília. See more architecture by Oscar Niemeyer » View the full article