Articles by Rupert Bickersteth

Dezeen’s Timber Revolution series, which ran throughout March, garnered more than 350,000 views and ignited the comments section. We round up the best of the debate. Sloppiness and misinformation are threatening to prevent large-scale wood construction from reaching its full potential, argued Hermann Kaufmann – the “grandfather of mass timber” – in an exclusive interview

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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed an opinion piece that argued “architecture is a hollowed-out profession with architects seemingly less vital than ever”. As architecture has evolved it has become detached from an understanding of construction and engineering that was once at the profession’s core, wrote Eleanor Jolliffe in an opinion piece for Dezeen.

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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed Specht Architects’ glass pavilion house in the Berkshires and debated a toilet made from wood chips. Specht Architects has designed a residential, symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires, Massachusetts, as a place to showcase antiques. Commenters saw echoes of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, a glass house

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Clouds AO’s wrapped cultural hub in Japan and Reinier de Graaf’s call for architects to stop using vacuous buzzwords. A spiralling facade of stainless steel panels wraps around a new cultural centre in Fukuoka, Japan, designed by Clouds AO in collaboration with NKS2 Architects and Takumi Nakahara Architects (pictured above).

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the announcement that Kenzo Tange’s modernist gymnasium is set to be demolished. It was confirmed this week that the post-war landmark completed in 1964 by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kenzo Tange in Takamatsu, Japan, will be demolished. Dezeen readers responded to the news in the comments section. Tom Roberts

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Saudi Arabia’s plans for a giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper in downtown Riyadh. The overwhelming response from commenters to the cube-shaped skyscraper was to draw comparisons with the Star Trek alien group The Borg, whose space ship was known as The Borg Cube due to its shape. Paul

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece that claims “AI is putting our jobs as architects unquestionably at risk”. In the opinion piece, AI author and Florida International University professor Neil Leach writes “architects urgently need to get to grips with the existential threat posed by AI” or risk “sleepwalking into oblivion”.

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