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This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter features an exclusive interview with the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner and reflections from Max Fraser on Milan design week. Subscribe to Dezeen In Depth now. Architects must stop waiting for commissions from wealthy clients and prioritise designing for the planet, says RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari in this exclusive interview.

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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed Asif Khan and Theaster Gates’ Liverpool Docks transformation plans. A pyramidal pavilion for contemplation is set to be introduced to the Liverpool waterfront as part of a transformation project led by architect Khan and artist Gates. Dezeen commenters debated the artistic goals and functionality or “usefulness” of art projects like this. “Too cryptic to mean

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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed Niall McLaughlin Architects’ red-brick International Rugby Experience museum in Limerick, Ireland. Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland, with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to “reflect the forces found in rugby”. The red brick International Rugby Experience was built as an attraction that celebrates the game of

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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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