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This week drone footage revealed that The Line megacity is under construction in Saudi Arabia and Amnesty International claimed labour abuses to migrant workers are ongoing in Qatar. Read on for more...

 

 

 

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Drone footage reveals The Line megacity under construction in Saudi Arabia

Drone footage reveals The Line megacity under construction in Saudi Arabia

Footage released by aerial photography company Ot Sky shows work commencing on The Line megacity, which is being built as part of the Neom development in Saudi Arabia.

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Qatar "turning a blind eye" to abuse of World Cup migrant workers says Amnesty

Qatar "turning a blind eye" to abuse of World Cup migrant workers says Amnesty

Labour abuses are still happening "on a significant scale" in Qatar despite "noticeable improvements" to migrant workers' conditions ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup, says Amnesty International.

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Apple reveals Foster + Partners-designed offices at Battersea Power Station

Apple reveals Foster + Partners-designed offices at Battersea Power Station

Apple CEO Tim Cook has unveiled visuals of the tech giant's offices within Battersea Power Station, which it is designing with UK studio Foster + Partners.

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Zenith and Felipe Pantone collaborate to design technicolour Defy Extreme watch

Zenith and Felipe Pantone collaborate to design technicolour Defy Extreme watch

Promotion: watch manufacturer Zenith has joined forces with contemporary artist Felipe Pantone to create a watch that combines "high-frequency watchmaking and vibrant multimedia optical art".

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Selldorf Architects revises plans for National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing

Selldorf Architects revises plans for National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing

New York studio Selldorf Architects has made changes to its revamp of the postmodern Sainsbury Wing at London's National Gallery, which had been criticised as "damagingly destructive".

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Rolls-Royce unveils its first fully electric car Spectre

Rolls-Royce unveils its first fully electric car Spectre

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its first all-electric car, the Spectre coupe, as the luxury brand promises to go fully electric by 2030.

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Glazed living room features in reconstruction of thatched Nieby Crofters Cottage

Glazed living room features in reconstruction of thatched Nieby Crofters Cottage

Architects Jan Henrik Jansen and Marshall Blecher have overseen the careful reconstruction and extension of a 120-year-old thatched cottage in north Germany.

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Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete's outsized carbon footprint

Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete's outsized carbon footprint

After Seratech's carbon-neutral cement won the 2022 Obel Award, Dezeen has rounded up six ways in which researchers are working to decarbonise concrete

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Foster + Partners' supertall 50 Hudson Yards skyscraper opens in NYC

Foster + Partners' supertall 50 Hudson Yards skyscraper opens in NYC

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed a supertall skyscraper in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards development in Midtown Manhattan.

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Crawshaw Architects transforms cow shed into Stanbridge Mill Library

Crawshaw Architects transforms cow shed into Stanbridge Mill Library

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office, that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture.

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"Maximalism is a manifestation of a desire for a different world"

"Maximalism is a manifestation of a desire for a different world"

A return to the frivolous aesthetics of the British Empire tells us that all is not right in the world, writes Samuel Johnson-Schlee, author of the book Living Rooms.

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Stone pavilion with Islamic motifs completes Alberta's Aga Khan Gardens

Stone pavilion with Islamic motifs completes Alberta's Aga Khan Gardens

Canadian studios AXIA Design Associates and Arriz + Co have completed a pavilion and event space within the University of Alberta's Botanic Gardens, the final step in the master plan.

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