"Maybe architects should give up bricks as well"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers are disgruntled after it was suggested that architects give up using concrete, and BIG divided commenters with its design for The Twist art gallery in Norway. We also launched a new service, Dezeen Recruit. Read on for more...     "What a self-centred bridge" Readers are divided over The Twist art gallery by BIG, which bridges the river dividing Kistefos sculpture park in Norway. Read more ›   "Maybe architects should give up bricks as well" Attendees of the Architecture of Emergency climate summit in London called upon architects to ditch concrete, but readers disagree.  Read more ›   Introducing Dezeen Recruit, a new recruitment service for the architecture and design industry We launched Dezeen Recruit, a recruitment service that matches candidates to job vacancies in architecture, interiors and design. Read more ›   "Surely that cape will get caught in a door?" Gareth Pugh designed a collection of uniforms for the crew of Virgin Voyages' cruise ships, but readers aren't sure they're practical.  Read more ›     Save an extra 20 per cent on Dezeen Day tickets There are just five weeks to go until Dezeen Day, our architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. Read more ›   "You'd think it would be a warm space" Coffey Architects covered the interior of this London apartment in wooden blocks, leaving commenters surprised it isn't more cosy. Read more ›   "Your planet needs you... all to stop breathing" To support the climate strike, Glug has created the world's biggest database of protest posters and readers are adding their own. Read more ›     "Not the way to stop global warming" News that travel agency Luxury Action is planning to place a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole, has infuriated readers. Read more ›   "More like a commercial space than a home" Commenters are yet to be won over by Umber, a monolithic black house in Tokyo that conceals an internal courtyard with a single tree. Read more ›   "We're not telling people what to do" Thomas Heatherwick explains his studio's "human-centred" approach to the design of public spaces in this filmed talk hosted by Dezeen. Read more ›   "Looking for the whitest white next" MIT has created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before. Read more ›   "Our dependency on growth must be abolished" The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper. Read more ›   "I really thought it was a prison" One reader thinks Feld72's Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, looks more like a correctional facility.  Read more ›   "A very elegant project" Mexican designer Gloria Cortina teamed up with studio Gomez de Tuddo Arquitectos to create this stark white beach house. Read more ›   This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Architect at Gresford Architects in Oxford, UK Designer/interior architect at Jouin Manku in Paris, France Senior landscape architect at Grant Associates in Bath, UK Design internship at FR-EE 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