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This week readers are debating Australia's first purpose-built Pride Centre and commenting on a rammed-earth farmhouse in Northern India. Read on for more...

 

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Mud House by Sketch Design Studio takes cues from Rajasthan stepwells

"Consider my socks knocked off"

Readers are bowled over by Sketch Design Studio's Mud House in northern India, which takes its cues from Rajasthan stepwells.

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Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects unveil Australia's first purpose-built Pride Centre

"Representation in the built environment matters"

Some commenters are praising the significance of Australia's first purpose-built Pride Centre. Others find its design "disjointed". 

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RIBA reveals 2022 Stirling Prize shortlist

"Is this really the best we can do?"

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, which includes buildings by Hopkins Architects and Henley Halebrown, has left readers cold. 

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Saudi Arabia reveals 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper to house nine million people

"If this is The Line, I need an eraser"

Commenters are baffled by Saudi Arabia's plans to build The Line, a 500-metre-tall linear city that will house nine million people. 

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Everyday Studio reinterprets farmhouse style with monochrome palette

"I predict that this design will age very well"

Readers are admiring the "beautiful execution" of a monochromatic home in Canada by Everyday Studio. 

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Icon Architects unveils design for tallest mass-timber building in North America

"Needs a Gehry touch!"

Icon Architects has unveiled its design for the tallest mass-timber building in North America. Commenters aren't buying it. 

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Leopold Banchini Architects perches wooden shack above an Australian creek

"Such a meditative and thoughtful space"

Readers are swooning over Leopold Banchini Architects' wooden shack, which overlooks a remote creek in New South Wales, Australia.

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Tetro Arquitetura uses black stilts to lift angular house in Brazilian forest

"Got to love the token green roof on the concrete box"

Tetro Arquitetura used black stilts to lift an angular house in a remote Brazilian forest. Readers think it fails to see the wood for the trees. 

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RIBA reveals UK's three best affordable housing schemes

"Failing in both sustainable design and social responsibility"

It wasn't just the Stirling Prize shortlist that disgruntled readers this week. The three housing projects shortlisted for RIBA's 2022 Neave Brown Award have sparked debate in our comments section. 

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Scalloped walls shade interior of family home in India by Sanjay Puri Architects

"Puri's done it again"

Scalloped walls shade the interior of a family home in Bhilwara, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects. Commenters think it's pure Puri. 

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Ten contemporary living rooms with cool stone surfaces

"Stone has a surprisingly cosy effect"

Our latest lookbook collects ten contemporary living rooms with cool stone surfaces. Commenters are pleasantly surprised. 

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Peter Saville unveils "subtle but necessary" update to Aston Martin logo

"Having seen so many classic logos butchered, I'm happy"

Some readers are impressed by Peter Saville's "subtle but necessary" update to Aston Martin's logo. Others are playing spot the difference. 

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Splinter Society adds black timber extensions to Melbourne cottage

"At last something different and innovative"

Commenters are charmed by the black timber additions that Splinter Society has added to a former worker's cottage in Melbourne.

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"Are we ready to see public housing's beauty and suburbia's impoverishment?"

"Are we ready to see public housing's beauty and suburbia's impoverishment?"

Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff.

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