"The last place I'd like to be during a hurricane"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers aren't convinced by BIG's plans for a floating city, and can't agree whether unpaid internships being "cultural tradition" in Japan makes the practice okay. We also brought you highlights from Milan design week. Read on for more...      "The last place I'd like to be during a hurricane" BIG unveiled a design for a floating city as a solution for populations under threat by rising sea levels, but the concept is already sinking.  Read more ›   "Doesn't mean it is okay" Architects in Japan have defended unpaid internships saying it is a cultural tradition with deep roots, but not everyone agrees. Read more ›   "Time's running out" There are now less than 50 days to go until the Dezeen Awards 2019 entry deadline, so here are some other vital numbers to know. Read more ›   "We have scientific proof now" From scientific proof that design is important to an installation crafted from 700 bioplastic bricks, here are our Milan design week highlights.  Read more ›     "Unique and worth noting" Readers agree that The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan's Hudson Yards by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group, is unusual. Read more ›   "Pretty cool" Illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.  Read more ›   "Restrained yet powerful" The Weston, a gallery, restaurant and shop designed by Feilden Fowles for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England, has seriously impressed.  Read more ›   "The current red one suits me fine" We revisited Mark Noad's submissions for our Brexit passport design competition, but at least one commenter isn't looking to change. Read more ›     "Not surprising Melbourne squashed it" Readers aren't shocked that Apple's plans for a store in Melbourne's Federation Square, designed by Foster + Partners, have been blocked. Read more ›   "Human movement in its most essential form" Humanscale's installation at Milan design week mimics the movements of its visitors, explains designer Todd Bracher. Read more ›   "I don't understand the point" Commenters are confused by Bestseller Tower, designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter for the town of Brande in Denmark. Read more ›   "No effort made to source local material?" People are wondering why Frida Escobedo sourced rammed earth from Mexico to make the rosy brick walls in this Brooklyn Aesop store. Read more ›     "Fantastic building" Screens made from eucalyptus run along the front of Catuçaba house, which Studio MK27 has completed on the hillside of a farm in Brazil. Read more ›   "Is this a joke?" Bang & Olufsen unveiled its Beovision Harmony television which can fold down to double as a sculpture, but readers can't take it seriously.  Read more › This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Project architect at Superimpose Architecture in Beijing, China Senior architect/project manager at Studio Fuksas in Rome, Italy Interior architect/designer at David Baker Architects in San Francisco, USA Architect at WilkinsonEyre in London, UK 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