"Great Ward of China"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers are debating China's plans to build a hospital in just a few days to help treat coronavirus, and are divided after BIG's proposal for the Two World Trade Center was scrapped in favour of a Foster + Partners design. Read on for more...     "Great Ward of China" News that the Chinese government is rapidly building a 1,000-bed hospital to help treat patients with coronavirus has sparked debate.  Read more ›   "A very sad day indeed for architectural education" Readers are upset to learn that Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin will shut due to a financial disagreement.  Read more ›   "May as well bring in a third big name" The developer of New York's World Trade Center site has axed BIG's Two World Trade Center design in favour of an earlier proposal. Read more ›   "More power to BIG if it can be the bringer of change" Commenters are divided after Bjarke Ingels released a statement defending his decision to meet with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. Read more ›     "A tool designed by somebody who doesn't use tools" Readers think that Byongseon Bae wasted her time redesigning a drill to replace its characteristic gun shape with a sleek alternative. Read more ›   "I predict it will have the lowest sales numbers" Readers aren't sold on the concept for an IKEA store that's being built in Vienna without any car-parking spaces and adorned with over 100 trees. Read more ›   "A black swan – elegant, beautiful, but distant" One commenter thinks that this house in Japan, clad in black corrugated metal with sliding doors that reveal white walls, is swan-like. Read more ›   "I wouldn't blame Paramount if they sued" The official logo of the US Space Force has proven controversial with readers who are calling it a Star Trek knock-off. Read more ›     "Very nice interiors, very bad exteriors" The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, by Selencky Parsons. Read more ›   "Isn't it just a bus for trendy people?" Layer has developed a concept for an autonomous ride-sharing service that avoids the guilt of booking single-passenger-journeys. Read more ›   "The design is very beautiful especially the outside" Architects Peter McNeil and Clarissa Nam have built two detached houses on a corner lot in Toronto and they are a hit with readers. Read more ›   "Looks like a walnut whip" One commenter thinks that Kengo Kuma's The Exchange in Sydney, Australia, looks like a walnut whip thanks to its ribboned exterior.  Read more ›   "That concrete work is incredible" David Adjaye has impressed readers with his use of pink-tinted concrete to form a "tough and gentle" store for The Webster in Los Angeles.  Read more › This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs 3D visualiser at David Chipperfield Architects in London, UK Product-design project manager at Jouin Manku in Paris, France Senior architect at OMA in New York, USA Architectural assistant/junior architect at Niall McLaughlin 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