"I find this beyond disturbing"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers are concerned by Samsung's creation of AI-powered virtual beings, and are impressed by a prefabricated home designed by Muji. Read on for more...     "I find this beyond disturbing" Samsung has developed AI-powered virtual beings that look and behave like real humans, much to reader disgust. Read more ›   "Laundry? Water heater?" Muji has delighted readers with its design for a prefabricated home called Yō no Ie, but there are some suggestions for improvements. Read more ›   "I fear I would miss the toilet" We rounded up eight striking bathrooms that play with materials and colour, but some readers are concerned they would fail to find the loo. Read more ›   "Take away his name and what are you left with?" Readers are unsure why Virgil Abloh, who has created a graffiti-covered furniture collection for Galerie Kreo, is so popular. Read more ›     "Okay, so you've got a car" A white bunker-like house in Takamatsu, Japan, was designed by FujiwaraMuro Architects to draw attention to the owner's sports car.  Read more ›   "We have great architects here in Brazil" Readers are angry that Danish architect Bjarke Ingels met with Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro to discuss developing tourism. Read more ›   "This place looks freakin' awesome" X+ Living has built a polka-dot slide into a ball pit within the Shenzhen Neobio Family Park in China, and readers approve.  Read more ›   "Looks incredibly Star Wars-like" Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has built a bunker-like studio from prefabricated concrete and stone alongside his home in Mexico City. Read more ›     "Can't imagine what will happen in another 10 years" Scientists at Tufts University have created xenobots, tiny robots made from frog skin and heart cells that can walk and heal themselves.  Read more ›   "Congratulations to the architects" Kapsimalis Architects has turned a cluster of former homes, barns and cellars on the island of Santorini into an impressive hotel. Read more ›   "Too much is at stake to leave architecture to architects" The emotional and economic impacts of cities are lost in meaningless phrases like "human-centric design", says Reinier de Graaf. Read more ›   "Either one likes the 'black look' or they don't" Readers are divided over our round-up of black cabins, including this holiday home in Canada by Montreal studio Appareil Architecture. Read more ›   "Of course it's stunning" One reader thinks this house near Antwerp designed by DDM Architectuur was destined to be beautiful, thanks to its surroundings.   Read more ›   This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs Junior interior designer at Conran and Partners in London, UK Senior architect at OMA in New York, USA Part 3 architect at heneghan peng architects in Dublin, Ireland Team assistant at Marc Newson 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