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Dezeen Debate newsletter features a “treeless treehouse”

May 26, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a pyramidal timber playhouse in a London garden. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now! Readers are swooning over a “treeless treehouse” named Penfold, which architecture studio De Matos Ryan created for a London garden. Accessible only by crawling beneath it, Danger Mouse is a 4.1-metre-high structure featuring triangular windows that frame views of its

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An aluminium church in China features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

February 3, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a church in Qingdao, China, designed by German-Chinese architecture practice Büro Ziyu Zhuang. Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed a church featuring walls and a tower made from dozens of spaced-out aluminium ribs. The Chamber Church was designed as part of Chinese property developer Sunac’s Aduo Town project in the Qingdao

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A snaking Shanghai bridge features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

January 27, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a bridge that incorporates spaces for play, rest and planting. Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) created a bridge connecting two areas of wetland across Shanghai’s Yuandang Lake. The 586-metre-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians is a “hybrid structure”, blending architecture, infrastructure and landscape with the existing

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The set from The Girl Before features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

January 20, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the set of BBC television series The Girl Before, which was designed to feel both like a sanctuary and a prison. Written by British author JP Delaney, The Girl Before is a psychological thriller novel set in a fictional one-bedroom house called One Folgate Street in

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A pine-cone-informed apartment block features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

January 6, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a mixed-use apartment block on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has amazed readers with its design for an apartment block that features retractable slatted wooden screens and thin balconies that reference the form of a pine cone. The heritage-listed Norfolk pine trees surrounding

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The world’s second-tallest building features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

December 17, 2021 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the Merdeka 118 skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Australian studio Fender Katsalidis has designed what is now the world’s second-tallest building, standing at 678.9-metres-tall. Located in downtown Kuala Lumpur, the 118-storey megatall skyscraper reached its full height with the completion of its pointed spire. One reader

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An EPC is “an unreliable means of representing building performance” says commenter

December 14, 2021 Karen Anderson 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are talking about the energy performance of the longlisted projects for the RIBA House of the Year 2021 and discussing other top stories. According to research by architecture studio Hawkes Architecture, only one of the 20 projects longlisted for the RIBA House of the Year 2021 achieved an A-rated

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A house built on a tiny plot in Vietnam features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

December 9, 2021 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features ODDO Architects’ design for a family home in Hanoi, Vietnam. ODDO Architects has built a five-storey home on a small site in Hanoi. The plot is just four metres wide and six metres deep. Readers are wowed. One said: “This is what architecture is all about”.

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Commenter suggests Notre-Dame cathedral is “turned into a discotheque”

December 7, 2021 Karen Anderson 0
Notre-Dame Cathedral after fire

In this week’s comments update, readers are debating a proposal to give Notre-Dame a tourist-friendly makeover and discussing other top stories. Plans to restore Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris have emerged, including replacing confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures with modern art murals. According to the Daily Telegraph, new light and sound effects designed to create

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An emergency cabin features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

December 2, 2021 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features an emergency cabin perched on the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. Architecture practice Demogo has built a small cabin within the dramatic Marmarole mountain range in Northern Italy’s Dolomites. The structure has a full-height window that gives the impression of almost falling over the edge of a cliff.

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