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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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“If you know anything about concrete, you know this is extraordinary” says commenter

November 22, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an aluminium-disc-topped pavilion in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Created as the Japanese architect’s first-ever project in Australia, the concrete structure is the 10th MPavilion in the city and was intended to be a space to reflect on the surrounding Queen Victoria Gardens.

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“Like Peter Barber on LSD” says commenter

November 15, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Sydney with a “playful and textured” facade made from reclaimed materials and broken bricks. Called 19 Waterloo Street, Australian studio SJB designed the building to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the city’s Surry Hills suburb. Commenters largely thought that the

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“No one can afford to live in the city anymore” says commenter about NYC skyscraper

November 1, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing news that architecture studio BIG has completed its first supertall skyscraper in New York City and debating a minimalist pink house in Mexico by César Béjar Studio. Called The Spiral, BIG’s latest completed project in New York reaches 314 metres (1,031 feet), making it a supertall skyscraper.

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“The beauty of this site is that it is untouched by man” says commenter

October 25, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a trio of “luxury boutique hotels” unveiled as part of the latest Neom region in an scenic valley in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s Neom project has announced Leyja – its fifth region – that will be connected to the forthcoming Trojena ski resort via a 73-kilometre hiking

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Ten post-industrial structures from the Black Country

October 19, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Artist Tom Hicks has spent the last six years documenting the built environment of the West Midlands. Here, he picks ten of his favourite photographs from his book Black Country Type exclusively for Dezeen. From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the

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“The architect’s sprezzatura is showing” says commenter

October 18, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a visitor centre hidden within a 100-year-old Greek vineyard. Architecture practice K-studio buried the visitor centre in the stepped stone terraces of the vineyard, which is located on the Greek island of Samos. The project, called Liknon, was created for drinks company Metaxa and includes a sequence of

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Austin Maynard Architects adds five gardens to Melbourne terrace house

October 5, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

An “urban farm” rooftop garden, planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne, designed by Austin Maynard Architects. Named Helvetia, the Victorian terrace house located in the inner-city suburb of Fitzroy, was renovated with a focus on retaining and reusing materials while providing new spaces for nature. The studio told Dezeen that

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“Enlightened by subtle openings” says commenter

September 27, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a concrete multi-generational home in India and debating news that construction has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. Designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, the Jeddah Tower is planned to reach a height of 1,000 metres, which would make it the world’s

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