Articles by Rupert Bickersteth

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Denizen Works’ house with “a sense of drama” that overlooks a Scottish loch. Recycled and crushed TV screens cover the external walls of the large seven-bedroom house, creating a low-maintenance, grey pebbledash-like finish. The focal point of the interior is a central, double-height hall designed to accommodate

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing drone footage that has revealed The Line megacity is under construction in Saudi Arabia. Comments exploded underneath last week’s story showing drone footage of work beginning on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia. In the video, numerous excavators can be seen digging a wide linear trench in the

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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Mexican architecture firm Estudio MMX’s recently completed Progreso Museum of Geology and other top architecture and design stories. The museum, based on a gridded pattern and made of multiple structures, has been clad in a finish called chukum that dates back to the Mayans and was chosen for

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In this week’s comments update, readers have had lots to say about Saudi Arabia’s plan to host the Asian Winter Games “in the heart of the desert”. Commenters questioned the reasoning behind the decision to host the winter sports event at the not-yet-built Trojena ski resort, which is located 50 kilometres from the Gulf of Aqaba

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In this week’s comments update, readers have had strong reactions to Studio Job’s surreal stained glass screen for a Dutch art institute, in the Netherlands. The local practice has completed a bronze-and-glass sculpture named The Embrace, which stands in front of KunstKerk in Dordrecht. It was described by the studio as a “surrealist take on

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In this week’s comments update, readers are debating the impact King Charles III had on British architecture while he was the Prince of Wales. Under his previous title, Britain’s new monarch exerted significant influence on the built environment through campaigning, torpedoing modernist projects and even building his own traditional towns. We looked at six ways

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