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This week, we announced the longlists for Dezeen Awards 2020, readers were impressed by Renzo Piano's Genoa San Giorgio Bridge and architects and designers in Beirut shared their first-hand accounts of the recent explosion. Read on for more...

 

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Dezeen Awards 2020 longlists announced

Dezeen Awards 2020 longlists announced

The architecture, interiors and design longlists for Dezeen Awards 2020 were announced this week, with the studios to follow tomorrow. 

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MAD reveals Wormhole Library overlooking the South China Sea

"This is superbly comical"

Commenters see the funny side of a library in Haikou, China, which architecture studio MAD designed to resemble a wormhole.

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Renzo Piano unveils replacement for collapsed motorway bridge in Genoa

"Renzo Piano just gets it"

Readers have given thumbs up to Renzo Piano's Genoa San Giorgio Bridge in Italy, which has been built to replace the Morandi Bridge.

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Beirut explosion was like a "nuclear blast" say Lebanese architects and designers

"Really heartbreaking"

Architects and designers in Beirut have shared their first-hand accounts of the huge explosion that destroyed much of the city.

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CTA Creative Architects uses perforated bricks to form Wall House in Vietnam

"Love the expressive brick"

Readers are fascinated by the hole-punctured bricks, which bring air and sunlight into this family home in the city of Bien Hoa, Vietnam.

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Clova Lamp is an AI-powered light that reads books to children

"This will normalise robots raising your children"

Technology brand Naver Corp has developed a smart reading light called Clova Lamp that narrates books aloud, concerning commenters.

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Black spiral staircase twists through Joseph store in Miami Design District

"Looks like a huge drill screwed the store"

A black metal corkscrew staircase is one of the divisive details Sybarite added to fashion label Joseph's store in the Miami Design District.

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Virgin Galactic's high-speed Mach 3 aircraft will usher "a new frontier in high-speed travel"

"There goes Concorde again"

Virgin Galactic has designed a passenger aircraft able to fly at three times the speed of sound, but commenters aren't impressed.

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Longhouse by Partners Hill spans 110 metres across Australian bushland

"Exquisitely well thought out and executed"

Readers are delighted by this lengthy shed-style home in Daylesford, Australia, which incorporates living, cooking and agricultural facilities.

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Linear brick wall conceals earthy and tactile interiors of Devon Passivhaus

"Very much at home in its surroundings"

Devon Passivhaus, an energy-efficient dwelling, nestles into a sloped walled garden that was once owned by an old English country house.

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Zaha Hadid Architects shares proposal for Shanghai's "greenest building"

"Kudos for a sustainable concept and fluid design"

Commenters are pleased by the green credentials of Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the CECEP Shanghai Campus in China.

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The Nest at Sossus guesthouse in Namibia features a thatched facade

"Echos the shapes and colors of the hills too"

Designer Porky Hefer took cues from the amorphous shape of bird nests to create this guesthouse on a wildlife reserve in Namibia.

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Arquipélago Arquitetos builds low-slung Brazilian house with rammed earth

"Modernism without concrete"

Arquipélago Arquitetos built a house in Brazil with walls made of rammed earth showing not all modern structures need be concrete. 

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