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This week, readers are enjoying wintery images of a housing scheme in Sweden and debating the fate of the famed modernist Penguin Pool at London Zoo. Read on for more details...

 

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Tham & Videgård Arkitekter unveils plans for prefabricated Vertical Village II in Sweden

"Like a fairytale"

Readers think Tham & Videgård Arkitekter's designs for Vertical Village II, a housing scheme in Gothenburg, are out of this world.

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Berthold Lubetkin's empty Penguin Pool should be blown "to smithereens" says daughter

"Please don't demolish the penguin pool"

Commenters disagree with the daughter of modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin, who suggested her father's famous Penguin Pool should be blown "to smithereens".

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Bauhaus bus embarks on world tour to explore the school's global legacy

"Why not make this Bauhaus bus travel further?"

A small-scale version of the Bauhaus school, named Wohnmaschine, will travel between four cities in 2019, but readers want to see more.

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Pooey Puitton toy purse makers file lawsuit against Louis Vuitton

"Folk can't take a joke these days"

Maker of children's purse Pooey Puitton has sued Louis Vuitton in an attempt to protect sales, and one reader think's it's all too serious.

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Columbia University researchers create 3D-printed "wood" with realistic internal grain

"Is there something wrong with real wood?"

Readers have been left baffled after engineers at Columbia University 3D-printed a block of "digital wood" in resin. 

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Foster + Partners reveals Shenzhen skyscraper for China Merchants Bank

"Better than The Tulip"

Plans by Foster + Partners for a Shenzhen skyscraper have gone down better than its recent tower proposal in London.

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Executors tried to remove Zaha Hadid's name from practice, claims Patrik Schumacher

"He seems completely in the right here"

Sympathy for Patrik Schumacher has grown after it was revealed that Zaha Hadid's executors tried to remove her name from the practice.

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Hugo Boss designs vegan shoes that replace leather with pineapple-based material

"How many pineapples were killed for these?"

A reader wants to know just how cruelty-free the vegan mens' shoes by Hugo Boss, which are made from pineapple leaves, really are. 

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CAAT Studio's home for a stone-seller in Iran is a celebration of travertine

"Stunning facade"

CAAT Studio has completed a house for a local stone seller in Mahallat, Iran, with a striking exterior made from local travertine.

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"More science fiction" needed to save planet earth, say designers at Dezeen talk

"We need disciplines working together"

Designers need to find more ambitious solutions to global problems, said speakers at Dezeen's talk about design in the anthropocene.

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Eight architect-designed holiday homes available to rent in Europe

"All incredible"

A timber cabin in arctic Norway and an off-grid dwelling in rural Greece are among these eight architect-designed holiday homes.

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