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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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing MVRDV’s envisioning for Vancouver’s waterfront in the year 2100 and the “world’s most aggressive SUV”. Dutch architecture studio MVRDV released a study that aims to offer possible solutions to urban planning in the face of rising sea levels by reimagining the Vancouver waterfront. The Sea Level Rise Catalogue looks at methods
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing whether energy savings from home insulation “vanish” after four years and Pelli Clarke & Partners’ Mexico City skyscraper. The US architecture studio has completed the 267-metre-tall Mitikah skyscraper, which is now the tallest in Mexico City. Mitikah is located in the low-rise neighbourhood of Benito Jaurez. In order
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece by Phineas Harper that argues “cities should not just build green transport but actively dismantle car infrastructure”. Harper suggests that instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable. Many
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After architecture, design and interiors again ignited plenty of debate this year, Dezeen’s digital team looks back on their favourite comments and commenters from the past 12 months as part of our review of 2022. Dezeen’s digital team is tasked with moderating our busy comments section, which received thousands of comments in 2022. One commenter who
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing how Mikhail Riches has restored the “original beauty” of brutalist Park Hill estate in Sheffield. A palette of green, blue and purple animates the latest phase of the redevelopment of Park Hill estate in Sheffield, recently completed by Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches. The London architecture studio created 195 contemporary homes
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing BIG’s completion of the tallest building in Quito, Ecuador. A facade of cascading balconies defines the concrete IQON tower near La Carolina park in Quito, which is Danish architecture studio BIG’s first completed project in South America The 133-metre-high skyscraper is now the tallest building in Ecuador’s capital. Comprising 20 residential
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing SANAA’s Sydney Modern art museum in Australia. Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio SANAA has extended the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a series of pavilions that step down towards Sydney Harbour. The building, called Sydney Modern, is powered entirely by renewable energy. The £191-million project has been
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Interior architect Martin Brudnizki Design Studio has created a classical Greek and Roman mythology-informed restaurant complete with sculptures by British artist Damien Hirst in Mayfair, London. Named Bacchanalia London, the restaurant is located on a corner site of 1 Mount Street in Mayfair that was previously a Porsche showroom. Opened 1 December, the restaurant has an opulent interior designed by
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