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This week readers are commenting on the latest Maggie's Centre designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind and Polestar's new rear-windowless electric car. Read on for more...

 

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Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast

"An earthy, modern design that blends in well with its picturesque location"

Readers have labelled this home in Melbourne by Wood Marsh, which features curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth, as "a gorgeous work of architecture and sustainable construction".

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Infinity pool by Herzog & de Meuron aims to "blend into the waters" at Lake Como

"An ode to architectural perfection"

Commenters are discussing Herzog & de Meuron's "cleanly designed and neatly executed" infinity pool at Italy's Lake Como made from prefabricated steel and set against a backdrop of historic colonnades.

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Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car

"There's no looking back from here!"

Swedish automaker Polestar has begun taking orders for the Polestar 4 – the world's first mass-market car to have no rear window. Readers are reacting to the vehicle.

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Studio Libeskind encloses Maggie's Royal Free with slanted walls

"Gosh, it looks so dated and cold"

Commenters express total disappointment over the latest Maggie's Centre, designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind in London.

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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils hydrogen refuelling stations for Italian marinas

"Neither pretty or ugly"

Readers don't love Zaha Hadid Architects designs for energy company NatPower's refuelling stations, planned for 100 Italian marinas.

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Faye Toogood designs lollipop stick-like chair and footstool for Vaarnii

"A brand new classic"

Commenters are enjoying British designer Faye Toogood's "perfect" pine outdoor furniture collection which was created in collaboration with Finnish furniture brand Vaarnii.

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Gensler designs circular housing block with electric-vehicle garages

"This caters to the super-wealthy"

Readers are disheartened by designs for an apartment complex with circular buildings and integrated electric-vehicle parking towers in Ontario, Canada, by US architecture studio Gensler.

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CCA orients wooden Casa Wabi pavilion around orchid cultivation

"A beautifully detailed structure complimented by a contextual materials palette"

Commenters are in love with a pavilion made from wood at Casa Wabi outside of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, designed by local architecture studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica.

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Vurpas Architectes transforms French market with "childlike quality" into primary school

"Fantastique! Great reuse, no-nonsense approach"

Readers are commenting on Eugénie Brazier, a primary school and nursery in Lyon, which French studio Vurpas Architectes has transformed from a 1960s market building.

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Italian modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic Milan galleria

"If you simply must be informed by modernism, then this is how you do it"

Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan. Commenters are admiring the store.

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Taller Héctor Barroso envisions Valle de Bravo houses as "silent architecture"

"I wish to spend some time in this space; a few centuries would be fine"

Mexican studio Taller Héctor Barroso has used concrete, wood and brick to create a series of "elegant and discreet" holiday homes that merge with the wooded landscape.

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RSHP designs tapered museum extension to house Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy

"Neat and cleanly designed architecture"

Commenters are divided over British studio RSHP's plans to overhaul the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France, which include adding an extension to exhibit the historic 70-metre-long tapestry.

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