"Calm, simple and easy to interpret... a must-read"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers think Michelle Ogundehin's interior design 2020 trend report is a "must-read" and are relieved that over 100 Australian architects are offering free design services to people affected by bushfires. Read on for more...     "It's a very complicated issue" Architecture studios have formed an organisation that will provide pro-bono design services to people affected by Australia's bushfires. Read more ›   "Calm, simple and easy to interpret... a must-read" Readers love Michelle Ogundehin's interiors 2020 trend report. But Michelle has denied writing this glowing comment herself! Read more ›   "I'm not into starchitecture but this is pretty cool" Herzog & de Meuron has impressed readers with its proposal for a museum in Hangzhou to celebrate the history of China's Grand Canal.  Read more ›   "Excellent to hear" Readers are delighted that IBM has developed a lithium-free battery that has a lower environmental and humanitarian impact. Read more ›     "Nice project for a new practice" Readers are impressed by Indra Janda who used translucent polycarbonate shingles to create a garden room at her parents' home. Read more ›   "Form, function, purpose and good energy" A kitchen wrapped in yuzu-coloured glass sits at the centre of HAF Studio's interior for Japanese burger restaurant Yuzu, in Reykjavík. Read more ›   "Clunky and completely ignorant of its surroundings" Modern House Architecture & Design has taken ideas from Tesla's Cybertruck to create the Cyberhouse, but readers aren't convinced. Read more ›   "That bathroom though" Wonder Architects used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house in China, but it's the toilets that have caught readers' attention. Read more ›     "She looks like a stuffed turkey" Readers are struggling to take a survival kit, created by Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae for a post-apocalyptic future, seriously. Read more ›   "The lawsuit should be for crimes against aesthetics" Princeton University is suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects claiming the firm took too long to build the school's Andlinger Center. Read more ›   "The 2020s 'will see the return of the real'" As the 2020s begins, Aaron Betsky predicts that architects in the new decade will focus on reuse, flexible spaces and earthy materials. Read more ›   "Hiding from the barbed wire" A hidden roof terrace is just one of the features that Cathie Curran and O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects have added to this London house. Read more ›   "Mexiterrean – you heard it here first" Delfino Lozano has renovated a house in Mexico to include a mix of Mediterranean and Mexican aesthetics, described as "Mexiterrean". Read more › This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Recruitment consultant at Dezeen in London, UK Junior architect at LOHA in Los Angeles, USA 3D visualiser at Squire and Partners in London, UK Architect at Aedas in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, China 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