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This week, readers are debating whether postponing the Salone del Mobile furniture fair until June is sensible and a graduate fashion show featuring billowing latex trousers is causing a stir. Read on for more...

 

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Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair postponed until June due to coronavirus

"June seems too soon a gamble for the all clear"

The Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan has been delayed until June in response to Italy's coronavirus outbreak, but is it too soon?

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House in Takatsuki by Tato Architects has 16 different floor levels

"Never drink alcohol in this house"

Commenters are struggling to imagine themselves living in House in Takatsuki, a building in Japan containing 16 different floor levels.

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Harikrishnan's inflatable latex trousers create "anatomically impossible" proportions

"Mad technical skills have gone into creating these"

Harikrishnan matched cropped tailored jackets with billowing latex trousers for his graduate show and the looks received a mixed response.

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Architect designs own house with white tower in Puglia

"I expect to see Rapunzel's head poking out"

One reader thinks architect Lorenzo Grifantini's house in Puglia, Italy, is like something out of a famous German fairy tale. 

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Max Siedentopf apologises for offence caused by images of coronavirus masks made of everyday items

"Disappointing on a multitude of levels"

Max Siedentopf apologised for causing offence with a photo series of home-made coronavirus masks, but it wasn't enough for some readers. 

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Studio Okami Architecten hides Sloped Villa in a Belgian hillside

"Sensitive, humble, yet luxurious"

Commenters are impressed by a brick and concrete house which Studio Okami Architecten dug into a sloping hillside in Belgium.

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Forensic Architecture founder denied US entry to attend his own exhibition opening

"Certainly not an architecture or design story"

One reader questioned Dezeen's decision to report that Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture, was prevented from entering the US. 

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Studio Vural imagines off-the-grid Dune House for Cape Cod

"Oh boy, where to start..."

Readers are far from convinced by architecture practice Studio Vural's concept for a seaside holiday home that is carved into sand dunes.

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Airbus unveils working model of its fuel-saving "giant flying wing"

"Very Thunderbird 2"

Airbus has revealed a Thunderbird-like model of its MAVERIC aircraft which is designed to reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 per cent.

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Herzog & de Meuron designs motorway chapel in Switzerland

"I hope it doesn't prove to be a safety problem"

One commenter is concerned about the underground and remote nature of this chapel in Switzerland, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

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Countryside, The Future exhibition has "nothing to do with architecture" says Rem Koolhaas

"He's not wrong!"

Readers agree with Rem Koolhaas's statement that his exhibition at New York's Guggenheim museum has "nothing to do with architecture".

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XXXLouis Vuitton's flagship Osaka store covered in curving glass sails

"This beauty is only skin deep"

Some think the interior of Louis Vuitton's store in Osaka is a let down compared to its facade which was inspired by Japanese merchant ships.

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AMAA creates own studio by inserting huge glass box inside old Italian factory

"Achingly cool place to work"

Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character.

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