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This week, readers think Kengo Kuma's design for a shipping-container Starbucks has fallen flat, but they want to take a dip in a Mexican hillside pool. Read on for more of the best stories and comments on Dezeen...

 

Villeroy & Boch

 

Kengo Kuma stacks shipping containers to create drive-through Starbucks in Taiwan

"Giant pick-up-sticks"

Kengo Kuma stacked 29 shipping containers to make a Starbucks coffee shop in Taiwan, and one reader thinks it resembles a game.

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"We should think very seriously about what a bed is today" says Beatriz Colomina

"Social engineering at work, do not disturb!"

Beatriz Colomina says that with the rise of flexible working, cities should be designed with beds in mind, but readers don't agree.

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Cabana and pool by CDM cut into rocky slope on Mexico's coast

"One of the top pools in the world"

A Mexican beachfront cabana by CDM has been praised by commenters who rate its swimming pool and rugged hillside location. 

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Sans Forgetica is a font that aids memory

"I appreciate Dezeen's added interest in typography"

Sans Forgetica is a font designed to help students remember what they have learnt, and one reader is particularly pleased to read about it. 

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Yacht Design

 

Zaha Hadid's first Brazilian building scrapped after long delays

"They wanted Zaha, not Patrik"

Plans to build Casa Atlântica, a Zaha Hadid Architects' designed block in Rio de Janeiro, have been paused – and readers aren't surprised.

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Taller Hector Barroso completes caramel-coloured apartment complex in Mexico City

"Wow this is gorgeous"

Commenters are swooning over a Taller Hector Barroso-designed housing complex in Mexico City, with warm-hued concrete walls.

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Five materials that could help us design a more sustainable future

"A few new ones to add to my list"

Readers are thrilled with Seetal Solanki's pick of five natural and manmade materials that could be used to reduce waste.

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Panasonic's human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices

"Where are we heading as a species?"

Readers are horrified that Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to keep people focused.

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Dutch Design Week Eindhoven

 

BIG releases plans for IQON skyscraper in Ecuador

"Kardashian style!"

Like it or loath it, readers agree that plans for BIG's first project in South America – and the tallest building in Quito – are showy. 

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Night Loo is a safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps

"A very important subject and good execution"

Anna Meddaugh has been congratulated for creating a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in the safety of their shelters. 

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"It makes no difference whether you draw with Rhino or a Pelikan"

"It makes no difference whether you draw with Rhino or a Pelikan"

An architect's tool of choice for visualising designs is not important, says Aaron Betsky, but do commenters agree?

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Inuce completes pink pebbledash church hall in Fuzhou

"A delightful study in restrained whimsy"

A pastel-pink church hall has been added to the 1930s-built Huaxiang Church in Fuzhou, southeastern China, and readers worship it. 

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