"A smart forest would be one that’s left alone"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, we hosted the inaugural Dezeen Day and announced the winners of Dezeen Awards 2019. Read on for more...     "A smart forest would be one that's left alone" Stefano Boeri unveiled plans to create a forested smart city in Mexico, designed to be a "pioneer" of more eco-efficient developments. Read more ›   Dezeen Awards 2019 winners revealed! Dezeen Awards 2019 has named the best architecture, interiors and design projects of the year, plus the best studios and emerging studios. Read more ›   "The future isn't terrifying. It just needs to be better" Humans need to design a better future for the planet, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli told the Dezeen Day audience.  Read more ›   "I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt" Readers are divided over news that architect Jean Nouvel is counter-suing the Philharmonie de Paris after he was fined €170.6 million. Read more ›     "How much CO2 is released making this?" Annie Larkins has designed an unusually shaped egg-free alternative to chicken eggs, but one reader wants to know how eco they are. Read more ›   "Looks like a golf-course for mermaids" Art Biotop Water Garden, an artificial landscape by Junya Ishigami near the Nasu Mountains in Japan, has won the first Obel Award. Read more ›   "Just in time to replace Barneys" A curvy glass facade lined with chainmail fronts the first location of American department store Nordstrom in New York City. Read more ›   "The point is what exactly?" Readers aren't sure why Iker Gil and Luftwerk felt the need to project a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.  Read more ›     "I simply can't hate this one" BIG arranged the classrooms of this white-brick and glass school in Virginia in a fan-shape to create "cascading terraces". Read more ›   "Doesn't look like Zaha Hadid's work" Readers are confused after Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture unveiled an un-Zaha design of an airport in Sydney.  Read more ›   "The possibilities are beautiful" Ying Gao has created robotic dresses that respond to their environment by expanding and contracting as if they are alive. Read more ›   "I'd go for the set over the show" Willo Perron created an impressive "mash up" of architectural iconography for the set design of Rihanna's Savage x Fenty show. Read more ›   "It would be better to ship timber from Scandinavia" The Netherlands could build a million new homes from sustainably harvested local wood according to architect Marco Vermeulen. Read more ›   "Breathtaking alpine surroundings" Commenters have been won over by the dramatic surroundings of a timber-clad holiday home in New Zealand by Intuitive Architects. Read more ›   This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Part 2 architectural assistant at Charles Tashima Architecture in London, UK Senior interior designer at NicoleHollis in San Francisco, USA Senior architect at Ingenhoven Architects in Düsseldorf, Germany Part 3 architects at Studio Seilern Architects 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