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This week readers are debating pyramidal timber playhouse in a London garden and Heatherwick Studio's tree sculpture, which is being erected to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. Read on for more...

 

Downtown Design

 

De Matos Ryan adds timber playspace to garden of London home

"I could live in this playhouse!"

Readers are swooning over a "treeless treehouse" named Penfold, which architecture studio De Matos Ryan created for a London garden.

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David Chipperfield adds vaulted arcades to revamped office complex in Paris

"Perfect balance of playfulness and elegance"

Commenters admire David Chipperfield Architects' transformation of a 20th-century office block in Paris into a multifunctional complex.

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Ten homes with water features to help keep cool on a hot day

"Unsurpassable"

For our latest lookbook, we collected 10 homes with water features to aid relaxation in warm weather. Readers are impressed.

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First images of Heatherwick's Tree of Trees at Buckingham Palace revealed

"Heatherwick appears very comfortable with risk"

Commenters are discussing Heatherwick Studio's sculpture containing 350 trees, which is being erected to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.

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Rafael Pardo creates towering Zoncuantla Apartments from pigmented concrete

"What a shame this isn't a house"

Readers are suprised that an apartment block in Veracruz, Mexico, made using concrete pigmented with minerals, isn't a house.

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Downtown Design

 

BIG and Heatherwick complete Google campus topped with "dragonscale" roofs

"Interiors look like a generic trade fair"

Commenters are disappointed by Google's new Bay View campus in  Silicon Valley, California, designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio.

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Six days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2022

Six days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2022

There are just six days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2022, where you could be named architecture, interior or design studio of the year.

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Herzog & de Meuron creates building with "modesty" for Royal College of Art

"This is taking modesty too far"

Commenters are underwhelmed by the research and studio building that Herzog & de Meuron has created for the Royal College of Art.

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Studio Mutt covers seaside artist's studio in black rubber and seashells

"Another winner from Mutt"

Readers approve of Studio Mutt decorating the rubber-painted exterior of an artist's studio in Poole, England, with scallop shells.

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Downtown Design

 

Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station is "ready to explode into action at any moment"

"An iconic building that never disappoints"

Continuing our series on deconstructivism, we highlight Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Readers are wowed.

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BIG wraps Vltava Philharmonic Hall in ascending colonnades

"Design that invites all, not only concert goers"

BIG has unveiled plans for a national concert hall in Prague that features protruding angular colonnades. Commenters are keen.

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Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge

"Hogwarts for the 21st century"

Readers have likened a Feilden Fowles-designed timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge to a magic school in Harry Potter.

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Haptic and Ramboll develop conceptual timber high-rise for "any city in the world"

"After Grenfell this will never be allowed"

Commenters aren't convinced by a concept for a modular timber tower by architecture studio Haptic and engineering firm Ramboll.

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Light and Air updates Financial District apartment with open floor plan

"Beautiful woodwork"

Readers appreciate Light and Air's renovation of a loft in New York. The studio removed partitions to create an open, inviting space.

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Luciano Basso raises concrete home around tree in southern Brazil

"Bound to be a villa of reference in the books"

Commenters think a concrete home in the forests of southern Brazil, which is built around a mature Paraná pine tree, will make history.

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