"We are not amused"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, we featured drone footage showing 732 abandoned chateaux in Turkey, plus we announced the winner of the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition. Read on for details...     "A nightmarish blight on a beautiful landscape" Readers are riled up after watching footage of the incomplete Burj Al Babas housing development, which has left 732 chateaux abandoned. Read more ›   "We are not amused" Opposite Office has failed to impress commenters with its proposed redesign of Buckingham Palace. The Affordable Palace would enable 50,000 people to co-habit with the queen. Read more ›   "Interesting that the house of the future is more vernacular than futuristic" The D*Haus Company has been deemed a worthy winner of the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition, with its proposal to reinvent Georgian housing for a future flooded London. Read more ›   "The apartment flows in a very inquisitive way" Cometa Architects has impressed readers with its use of cement surfaces, wooden joinery and copper detailing in a Barcelona flat. Read more ›     "No comparison with the Calatrava design" Five teams of architects are vying to redesign Chicago's O'Hare international airport, and readers have picked designs by Santiago Calatrava and Foster + Partners among their favourites. Read more ›   "Can't think of a building more awkwardly positioned" Commenters aren't sure why Italian architects Roberto Dini and Stefano Girodo built a prefabricated shelter on a mountain peak. Read more ›   "It's a swastika" Readers are seeing a familiar symbol in the new logo of workplace messaging system Slack, designed in a reband by Pentagram. Read more ›   "Looks like a building site" The fibreglass facade of the Nová Ruda kindergarten by Petr Stolin Architekt makes the building look unfinished, say readers. Read more ›     "It's very important to connect the eye and the hands" Artist Joep van Lieshout explains how he "likes to get dirty" when designing furniture, in our latest Design Dreams movie with Moooi.  Read more ›   "Tate Modern two without the brick facade" Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled its "concert hall for the 21st century" for London, but does it look too much like Tate Modern? Read more ›   "Bauhaus just wasn't British" There's a reason why Bauhaus architects and designers struggled to forge careers in the UK, says Owen Hatherley in the latest instalment of our Bauhaus 100 series.  Read more ›   "Beautiful and perfectly executed" Readers are enthusiastic about VAC Library by Farming Architects which uses solar-powered aquaponics to keep vegetables, koi carp and chickens in Hanoi, Vietnam. Read more ›   This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Part 2/3 architect at Paul Archer Design in London, UK Architect at Níall McLaughlin Architects in London, UK Project architect at Concrete in Amsterdam, Netherlands Designer at Michaelis Boyd in New York, USA Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Weekly. Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise