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This week readers considered the question why are luxury car brands suddenly building skyscrapers? and debated Heatherwick Studio's plans for a park with "floating islets" in Seoul. Read on for more...

 

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Roth Architecture creates electric car for navigating narrow Tulum roads

"Narrow cars will change urban congestion permanently"

Tulum-based design studio Roth Architecture has created an electric car that can travel up to 22 miles per hour along the narrow local roads. Readers discuss the project's merits.

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Why are luxury car brands suddenly building skyscrapers?

"A new low – or high – in the world of 1 per cent conspicuous consumption"

Dezeen's Nat Barker reports on how in the past 18 months a flurry of skyscrapers has been unveiled by luxury car makers including Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and Aston Martin. Commenters debate the trend.

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Heatherwick Studio reveals plans for island park with "floating islets" in Seoul

"Thank God for Heatherwick's astonishing creations"

Readers are weighing in on UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio's plans to transform the uninhabited Nodeul Island in Seoul into a public park with "floating islets" called Soundscape.

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Thomas Juul-Hansen unveils "modern and classic" Manhattan skyscraper

"The material colour contrast is beautiful"

Thomas Juul-Hansen has completed this skyscraper in New York, adorned with limestone facades and topped with a champagne-colored stainless steel crown. Commenters are deliberating over the tower.

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Pininfarina creates chaise longue with the "aerodynamic curves" of a sports car

"This is a beautiful sculpture but not-so-much as furniture"

Readers aren't sold on Italian design studio Pininfarina's first collectible furniture object – a chaise longue featuring a craggy, rock-like base and a smooth seat informed by the outline of a sports car.

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Pelli Clarke & Partners completes skyscraper "imbued with lightness" in Chicago

"Interesting and elegant with fabulous proportions"

Commenters are considering Pelli Clarke & Partners' recently finished 57-storey Salesforce Tower, situated along the Chicago River.

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Recycling "breakthrough" could usher in zero-emissions cement

"This feels really promising!"

Readers are celebrating news that researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way of cheaply producing low-carbon concrete at scale by making use of waste cement.

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Cairn uses hand-poured hempcrete for House Made by Many Hands in London

"Great to see such modest use of reclaimed materials"

Commenters react to Cairn's use of hand-poured hempcrete for the walls of this extension of a Victorian home in east London.

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SO-IL completes perforated-metal facade of residential tower in Brooklyn

"The massing is expressive and the facade cleanly executed"

Local architecture studio SO-IL has completed the exteriors of a residential building in Brooklyn with a wavy, perforated-metal facade. Readers are split over the project.

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