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This week, readers are sizing up a skyscraper in Singapore by Heatherwick Studio, swooning over architect John Wardle's home and debating whether coffins are necessary. Read on for more...

 

BA Quito

 

Heatherwick Studio's Singapore skyscraper has balconies overflowing with plants

"A breath of fresh air"

Some commenters are impressed by Heatherwick Studio's plant-covered skyscraper in Singapore but others still need convincing.

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Architect John Wardle renovates his own house in Australia

"10 out of 10 for the design"

The founder of John Wardle Architects has remodelled his Melbourne home of 25 years and readers can't get enough.

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Bob Hendrikx designs "living coffin" from mushroom mycelium

"What about ditching the coffin entirely?"

Bob Hendrikx has created a mycelium coffin that speeds up decomposition and improves soil quality, but has he gone far enough?

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Robert Gutowski Architects designs minimal church interior in response to changes in modern worship

"A lovely composition"

Readers are pleased by the use of skewed angles and whitewashed concrete in The Church of Pope John Paul II in Páty, Hungary.

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Jotun

 

Blue slide is centrepiece of Walker house renovation by Reflect Architecture

"Not just for kids"

Reflect Architecture has renovated a house for a young family living in Toronto, Canada, by twisting a blue slide through its centre.

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Boano Prišmontas creates modular garden office that's "easier to assemble than IKEA furniture"

"What a delightful use of plywood"

Readers are divided over the design for a prefabricated timber office, which Boano Prišmontas created for people working from home.

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EC president announces "new European Bauhaus" to help Europe move to a circular economy

"The world needs real, simple, practical solutions"

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to create a new Bauhaus modelled on the influential school.

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Koichi Takada unveils plant-covered Urban Forest housing high rise for Brisbane

"How many gardeners will be required?"

Readers are concerned about the upkeep of an apartment building in Australia, which is covered in thousands of trees and plants.

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Dezeen Awards

 

Rapt Studio fashions soothing interiors for Goop HQ in Santa Monica

"One of the best office designs I have seen"

Commenters are impressed with Rapt Studio's interior design for the headquarters of lifestyle and wellness brand Goop.

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"Extinction Rebellion's tensegrity structures have rekindled the spirit of early high-tech"

"Extinction Rebellion's tensegrity structures have rekindled the spirit of early high-tech"

Extinction Rebellion's bamboo protest towers that blocked national newspaper printing presses recall the sustainable motives of high-tech architecture and should win the Stirling Prize, argues Phineas Harper.

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Athens is "the new Berlin" says Carwan Gallery founder as it relocates to the Greek capital

"Yes to the food and weather in Athens!"

The founders of Carwan Gallery have moved it from Beirut to Athens after claiming the Greek capital is the new Berlin, exciting readers.

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Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

"I suppose this is as good as anything else"

Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.

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Atelier Štěpán tops circular Church of Beatified Restituta with rainbow stained-glass window

"That's one good-looking church"

Atelier Štěpán has built a circular church in a housing estate in Brno that is topped with a panoramic, rainbow-hued window.

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