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This week readers are debating a roundup of eleven supertall skyscrapers and commenting on a "floating forest" by Italian architect Stefano Boeri. Read on for more...

 

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Eleven supertall skyscrapers that demonstrate the "human aspiration to go higher"

"You could not pay me to live in one of these"

We've rounded up eleven supertall skyscrapers that have changed the way we think about cities. Readers aren't convinced. 

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Stefano Boeri creates Floating Forest at Milan design week

"Is planting trees on the ground too mundane?"

Commenters aren't buying Stefano Boeri's "floating forest", which was installed on the river Darsena as part of this year's Milan design week.

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Stewart-Schafer renovates modernist house in Connecticut woods

"Love the slat windows"

Readers are admiring this modernist home in Connecticut, which the founders of Stewart-Schafer have renovated for themselves. 

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Sigurd Larsen creates compact timber-clad cabin with panoramic windows

"Looking at those windows, I see a lot of dead birds"

Architect Sigurd Larsen has created a compact cabin with panoramic windows. Commenters are concerned about its impact on wildlife. 

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MAD aims to "challenge the status quo" with first social housing project

"Better than the mechanistic social housing of modernism"

Chinese studio MAD's Baiziwan housing development in Beijing has sparked a discussion on social housing in our comments section. 

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Marcel Breuer's brutalist office in Connecticut reopens as Hotel Marcel

"A highlight of my day"

Becker + Becker has converted a brutalist Marcel Breuer building in Connecticut into a Passive House hotel. Readers are bowled over.

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Architects brand UK government plan to reintroduce imperial measurements "stupid"

"Backwards thinking from a backwards government"

Commenters agree with architects that the UK government's plan to reintroduce imperial measurements is "stupid". 

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Kanye West gives McDonald's burger box understated redesign

"The Emperor's New Clothes comes to mind"

Kanye West has given the famous McDonald's burger box an understated redesign. Some readers are "lovin' it" more than others. 

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DéDal Architectes creates angular brick home in Belgium

"Ugly Belgian Houses won't run short of material"

An angular brick home in Belgium, designed to "rupture" its more traditional surroundings, has divided commenter opinion. 

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Removing staff "only first phase of reform" says Bartlett whistleblower

"Whistleblowing is immensely important"

Readers are weighing in on our exclusive interview with Bartlett whistleblower Eleni Kyriacou, who says she feels "vindicated" by the report into the abusive culture at the London architecture school.

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Not Architects Studio creates Japanese house with void to "scoop up" views

"There doesn’t appear to be any scenery to scoop"

Not Architects Studio designed a house in Japan with a skylit void to "scoop up" views. Commenters aren't convinced it meets the brief.

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Ten multi-generational homes that organise space in interesting ways

"Should be encouraged in the west"

Our latest lookbook spotlights ten multi-generational homes that organise space in interesting ways. Readers are taking note. 

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MVRDV reveals plans to convert Centraal Beheer into housing district

"Hands off this wonderful building"

Commenters aren't keen on MVRDV's plan to convert Herman Hertzberger's 1970s Centraal Beheer building into a housing district.

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