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“So confident, so fluid, so good” says commenter

June 28, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a colourful secondary school in China, which Trace Architecture Office has designed as a “celebration of creativity”. Defined by its brightly coloured volumes and sweeping curves, the Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School was created as a retreat from traditional forms of education. “The spaces created stimulate imagination

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“Heatherwick is showing architects how it’s done” says commenter

June 14, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio’s “weird and wonderful” design for the West Bund Orbit exhibition centre in Shanghai, China. The Heatherwick Studio-designed West Bund Orbit exhibition centre is currently under construction on the West Bund waterfront in Xuhui District and will feature a series of interwoven “ribbons” that wrap around

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Day two from 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen

June 9, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

The Dezeen team are reporting from the 10th edition of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen (7-9 June). Read on for all the coverage from the second day (Thursday 8 June). 6:00pm A 30-metre dinner table awaits 80 guests in this collaboration between architecture and design studio Spacon & X and 3 Days of

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“Looks like something from Patrik Schumacher’s recycling bin” says commenter

May 31, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers discussed luxury car manufacturer Bugatti’s first foray into residential architecture. Car brand Bugatti last week unveiled the design of a 42-storey skyscraper in Dubai that will have two garage-to-penthouse car lifts. Developed in partnership with local developer Binghatti, the Bugatti Residences will be the first residential building branded with the

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“Does this ruling only apply to the ultra-wealthy?” says commenter

February 8, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the outcome of Tate Modern’s supreme court privacy case and debating Formafatel’s pair of rammed-earth villas in Costa Rica. The supreme court last week ruled that residents of the luxury Neo Bankside flats on the south bank of the Thames live as though they are “on display

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Dezeen Debate features a “clean” and “simple” revamp of a 1920s house in Prague

January 5, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Debate newsletter features No Architects’ “seamless” renovation and extension of a 1920s house in Prague. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. No Architects’ extensive revamp aimed to retain the character of the house, which was built in the 1920s in a romantic style that references arts and crafts-style English villas.

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“If only the same care could be lavished on every building” says commenter

January 4, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Sumu Yakashima, a co-operative housing project in Japan that aims to positively impact its natural setting. Designed by architect Tsukasa Ono, the co-operative community on Japan’s Yakushima island uses a “regenerative” approach to improve the soil it’s built on by promoting the growth of mycelium and bacteria. “Grand

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“Leave this beautiful city alone” says commenter

November 30, 2022 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Studio Libeskind’s design for a contemporary extension to the iconic Boerentoren tower in Antwerp, Belgium. Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind’s studio has designed an extension to the 90-year-old tower, which was once Europe’s tallest high-rise, as part of a plan to preserve its architectural heritage while transforming it

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Dezeen Debate newsletter features an “ostentatious” house spanning a California creek

September 15, 2022 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Debate newsletter features a creek-spanning holiday home in California by Fougeron Architecture. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Zinc cladding and large stretches of glass feature in The Suspension House, a two-storey 1970s building that San Francisco-based Fougeron Architecture remodelled and enlarged for a couple and their child. While

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Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Norman Foster’s tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

September 13, 2022 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Norman Foster’s tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died last week aged 96. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. British architect Norman Foster, who was appointed to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997, called the late monarch’s leadership “faultless” and recalled how his

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