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| This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online |  | | This special edition of Dezeen Weekly brings you the top 10 stories on Dezeen from the past seven days in association with Vitra Summit, taking place online from 22 to 23 October 2020. Click here for more information on Vitra Summit, including details of how to register for free. Read on for this week's top 10 stories... | |  | |  1: In our most popular story this week, Norman Foster says that the coronavirus pandemic will not fundamentally change cities, but could lead to more sustainable buildings, a "renaissance" for urban farming and a "new future" for monorails. Read more › | |  Promotion: This year has radically changed our perception of space. Taking place online on 22 and 23 October, the Vitra Summit will explore how we can future-proof environments at home, in the office and on the go. The summit will address questions such as: will we miss the office if it disappears? What impact have past crises had on interiors throughout history? Will our freedom to work remotely result in an urban exodus? Presenters include Virgil Abloh, Ilse Crawford, Hella Jongerius, Konstantin Grcic, Ivy Ross and Francis Kéré. Register for your free ticket now › | |  2: Joshua Abbott has written A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land to highlight the modernist architecture in the northwestern suburbs of London. Here he selects ten of the most interesting examples. Read more › | |  3: Seattle architecture studio Wittman Estes drew on ancient Chinese landscape paintings and principles of garden design for this black house in Washington. Read more › | |  4: Shanghai studio Roarc Renew has slotted two sweeping brick corridors between a pair of disused granaries in Jiaxing, China, to create the TaoCang Art Centre. Read more › | |  | |  5: Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has resigned as dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College in New York, citing a crippling workload and a lack of empathy for black women. Read more › | |  6: A diagonal atrium enclosed by faceted glass protrudes from the exterior of the Axel Springer building, which OMA has completed in Berlin, Germany. Read more › | |  7: Voice-activated technology and space-saving furniture helped Sim-Plex Design Studio turn a two-bedroom home in Hong Kong into Smart Zendo, a four-bedroom apartment with hidden storage. Read more › | |  8: Plywood covers almost every surface in this store that creative studio Mythology has designed for beauty retailer Shen in Brooklyn, New York. Read more › | |  9: Swedish furniture retailer IKEA is introducing a new initiative in time for Black Friday that will see it buy back customers' unwanted IKEA products for up to 50 per cent of the original price. Read more › | |  10: Pritzker Prize-winning architecture studio SANAA has unveiled its design for an extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which is currently under construction in Sydney. Read more › | |  | | | | | | | |       You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Weekly.
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