|
|
This week readers are debating a minimal house in Japan and commenting on a cantilevered housing block in Amsterdam by BIG and Barcode Architects. Read on for more... |
|
|
|
"Possesses the qualities to become iconic"Commenters are struck by BIG and Barcode Architects' Sluishuis housing block, which is cantilevered over Amsterdam's IJ lake. |
|
"I love its simplicity, functionality and rhythm"Readers think that Nori Architects' compact Minimum House in Toyota, Japan, lives up to its moniker. |
|
"He's the Joe Biden of architecture"Commenters are underwhelmed by Frank Gehry's The Grand skyscrapers, which have opened in downtown Los Angeles opposite the architect's famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. |
|
|
|
"So modern, so sterile, so antiseptic to the point of me liking it!"Pitsou Kedem has designed a minimalist dwelling in Tel Aviv as a refuge from the city centre. Readers think it's "clean and smart". |
|
"My money's on the Dutch barn"From a pink coastal residence to a converted barn, commenters are backing favourites to win RIBA's House of the Year for 2022. |
|
"All I want to see this week are shade-filled ice houses”Readers are wondering how the glass extensions featured in our latest lookbook would hold up in the current European heatwave. |
|
|
|
"This is the craziest thing I've ever heard"A collection of conceptual sex toys for cows, designed to make farming practices more pleasurable, has sent commenters into a tailspin. |
|
"I'd work a lot harder if my office looked like these"We've selected ten garden studios from a new book exploring the "new fluidity about where we work". Readers have office envy. |
|
"Kengo Kuma, but make it botox"Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled its first residential tower in the US. The jury's still out for commenters. |
|
"Marcus Fairs was undoubtedly one of the design world's pre-eminent power brokers"Marcus Fairs changed the way we consume design news, writes Justin McGuirk in this obituary for Dezeen's late founder. |
Latest Dezeen Showroom products |
|
"Refreshing to see a Mexican house on Dezeen that isn't made of concrete"Some readers are charmed by a natural stone retreat in Mexico by Di Frenna Arquitectos. For others, "there's too much happening". |
|
"More art installation than functional architecture"Commenters think that an inverted-pyramid chapel in Portugal by Bernardo Rodrigues Architects is "awkward in relation to the site". |
|
"Why don't we just consume less?"Some readers found our roundup of ten food innovations that aim to cut the carbon impact of our diets a little unsavoury. |
|
"Design practices must lead the way in rethinking capitalism to save the planet"Design practices need to rethink capitalist business models to meet the challenges of the climate emergency, writes Katie Treggiden. |
|
|
This week's top jobs on Dezeen Jobs |
Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs
You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen
Debate, which was formerly called Dezeen Weekly. |
