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This week, readers are discussing Meta's first smart glasses to combine AI with augmented reality and Canada's launch of a nationwide home-building agency focused on mass timber.

 

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Best Practice Architecture adds scalloped shingles to renovated 1950s house in Seattle

"A humble, budget-conscious solution"

"Everything old becomes new again" at this shingle-clad home, redesigned by Best Practice Architecture for a mother and daughter as a multi-generational base.

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Meta launches first AI smart glasses with integrated display

"Why does anyone need more than one screen on their person?"

Commenters say "it's time to rethink everything" after Meta revealed the Ray-Ban Display, its first smart glasses to combine AI and augmented reality.

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US lighting brands "not going back to 20th-century manufacturing"

"These dinosaurs are simply going to be crushed by Chinese brands"

American lighting companies are using 3D-printing and digital manufacturing to try and fix the "extremely broken" lighting manufacturing industry, Ellen Eberhardt reports. Readers think "this is all wishful thinking".

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Urbanitree uses local materials and construction methods for African Flow School in Cameroon

"Delightfully simple details and flawless, clever execution"

Commenters are praising a kindergarten in Cameroon by Barcelona studio Urbanitree, which features patterned rammed-earth walls and hardwood carpentry that celebrate "ancestral materials and methods".

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Colin Knight exhibition explores "troubling connections" between mid-century design and world war two

"They seem to believe that random furniture assemblages are art..."

Designer Colin Knight has presented an exhibition of conceptual furniture called Hero's Wreck at Superhouse Gallery in New York, with materials and symbols relating to world war two. Readers are intrigued by the collection.

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Canada launches nationwide home building agency focused on mass timber

"Canadian construction methods are still living in the Dark Ages"

The government of Canada has launched Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership "to build affordable housing at scale and at speed" in order to address the country's housing crisis. Commenters discuss the initiative.

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School pupils design modular public seating for King's Cross

"Quite excessive use of aluminium"

London designers Attua Aparicio, James Shaw and Studio Furthermore collaborated with local teenagers on a public bench for Camden Council, unveiled at London Design Festival. Readers share their thoughts.

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"It's time for activism" says inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial director

"I really hope this will become a success"

The inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial aims to create practical solutions to the global challenges exacerbated by the built environment, says director Josephine Michau in this interview. Commenters are pleased by the approach.

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V Taller references Tower of Babel in design of Mexican residential complex

"Pray for the surrounding sacred nature, animals, cenotes, traditions and native people"

Mexican studio V Taller has completed a residential complex in Tulum, featuring vaulted apartments surrounding a pink stucco tower inspired by the mythical Tower of Babel. Readers express concern about its impact on the local community.

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