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“The Indian architecture education system seems to be fundamentally broken” says commenter

September 6, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Wallmakers founder Vinu Daniel’s “elitist” defence of unpaid internships. The Indian architect and Wallmakers founder defended his position on unpaid internships, which he argues have an important educational benefit, following criticism on Instagram. Daniel confirmed to Dezeen that people join his studio unpaid but said that he considered them

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“This is the kind of brutalism I can support” says commenter

August 30, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an angular home in Portugal defined by stacked layers of warping glass and concrete. Located at the highest point of the Portuguese city Leiria, Quinta do Rei was designed by local studio Contaminar to function like a watchtower and features long spans of windows that frame views

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“Like a box of matches over gravel” says commenter

August 23, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an “elegant” rectangular house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo, Brazil. Designed by Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons and aptly named Casa dos Terraços Circulares – or the House of Circular Terraces – the linear dwelling is embedded in a forested lot in São Paulo’s suburbs. The

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Otherworlds transforms Goan villa into restaurant that “celebrates chance encounters”

August 22, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

Local design studio Otherworlds drew on the traditional Goan balcão when converting a 1980s villa in Panjim, India, into the Terttulia restaurant and bar. Housed in a Portuguese-style villa, Terttulia Goa is defined by a central island bar informed by the balcão – an outdoor porch with built-in seats that serves as the entrance to a

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“This is a giant step backwards for Brooklyn” says commenter

August 16, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the completion of Brooklyn’s first supertall skyscraper. At 93 storeys and 325 metres tall, the SHoP Architects-designed Brooklyn Tower in New York is the tallest building in the borough. Though the mixed-use tower topped out in March this year, its intricate black and bronze facade was only recently

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It is the architect’s “moral responsibility to provide a building that is safe” says commenter

August 9, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece by Matt Shaw that reflects on what went wrong with Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel, two years after it was closed following a series of suicides. The Vessel, a 150-foot-high viewing platform in New York’s Hudson Yards development, has been closed since July 2021. Four people

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Dezeen Debate features “gorgeous” screen-wrapped house in Kent

July 27, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a screen-wrapped house in Kent designed to be taken over by nature as plants grow up its perforated-steel facade. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Informed by rattan weavings, British practice Giles Miller Studio devised a repeating pattern of twisting, diamond-shaped modules for the facade of Woven

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“Give me a team of bricklayers over a 3D printer every time” says commenter

July 26, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the first 3D-printed house to be completed at the “largest-scale development of 3D-printed homes in the world”. Co-designed by Danish architecture studio BIG and American 3D-printing firm ICON, the full-sized model home is one of 100 houses that are currently being constructed by local firm Lennar. The house,

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W Budapest hotel occupies 19th-century Drechsler Palace

July 7, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

Interior design studios Bowler James Brindley and Bánáti + Hartvig have transformed a 140-year-old neo-Renaissance building in central Budapest into the latest outpost from hotel chain W Hotels. W Budapest is set inside the 1886 Drechsler Palace designed by architects Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos, previously home to a grand cafe and the headquarters of

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“Why can’t we have nice things like this in the US?” says commenter

July 5, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a Christ & Gantenbein-designed concrete bridge in Aarau, Switzerland, which features five arches of varying widths. The 119-metre-long New Aare Bridge, which connects Aarau city centre to a forested area on the other side of the Aare River, incorporates lanes for cars, pedestrians and cyclists. The sculptural bridge

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