"One of the loveliest projects on Dezeen this year"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers react to Foster and Partners' newly launched sustainability manifesto, we reveal the top architecture trends of 2019, and Holly Brockwell explains why sexist marketing of the Escobar phone is unsurprising. Read on for more...     "The proof is in the doing" Readers are calling for action on carbon emissions from Foster + Partners after it launched its sustainability manifesto this week. Read more ›   "We need to stop with the bird-killing mirrored glass" Continuing our review of 2019, assistant editor India Block looks back at the 10 biggest trends in architecture of the year. Read more ›   "One of the loveliest projects on Dezeen this year" A hidden hut next to a secluded lake in Norway has impressed with its deliberate inaccessibility and lack of distractions. Read more ›   "Fascinating! And scary at the same time" Intriguing architectural photographs taken across Pyongyang by Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapić, have caught readers' attention. Read more ›     "Stunning and brave" Readers are divided over the aesthetics and justification of an artificial insemination tool that doubles as a sex toy. Read more ›   "How to not solve a non-existing problem" Floating shelving units at a university library have readers questioning the aim of Wolfgang Tschapeller's renovation. Read more ›   "Sexist advertising for the Escobar phone is everything tech wishes it could still get away with" Holly Brockwell is unimpressed, but unsurprised, by the sexist advertising of a gold phone launched by Pablo Escobar's brother. Read more ›   "Ocean rise equals future fish habitat" Readers are concerned about plans for a mixed-use development in Brooklyn, which includes a beach. Read more ›     "The stone is right there, and free!" A cross-laminated timber house in the Scottish Highlands has readers suggesting how the project could have taken sustainability further. Read more ›   "Conceptually flawless and visually stunning" Dutch architecture practice UNStudio has created glass boxes that "mimic billowing transparent cloth" for a store facade in Amsterdam. Read more ›   "Good luck cleaning that" One reader is concerned about the upkeep of a cloud-like armchair that Andrés Reisinger created after the chair's renderings went viral. Read more ›   "Stop blaming architecture" Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has called on architects to prepare for the new challenges climate change may cause in the future. Read more ›   "Collages are especially vulnerable to abuse" Visuals by Tatiana Bilbao reveal the final design of an aquarium she is building in Mexico, designed to look like a ruin or shipwreck. Read more ›   This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Junior interior designer at Soho House in New York, USA Architect at Emrys Architects in London, UK Senior project leader at Büro Ole Scheeren in Beijing, China Part 2/3 architect at dRMM 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