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This week more studios have been named among architects working on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia and an MIT study found a huge carbon cost to self-driving cars. Read on for more...

 

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Adjaye Associates, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Morphosis named among architects working on The Line

Adjaye Associates, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Morphosis named among architects working on The Line

International architecture studios including Adjaye Associates, Morphosis, Studio Fuksas and Coop Himmelb(l)au have been named in a Riyadh exhibition as working on The Line in Saudi Arabia.

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Formafatal creates pair of rammed-earth villas in Costa Rica

Formafatal creates pair of floating villas in Costa Rica

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, which open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass.

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MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars

MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars

The widespread adoption of self-driving cars will create a major bump in carbon emissions without changes to their design, a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found.

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Twelve highlights from Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023

Twelve highlights from Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023

Promotion: the world's largest platform for Scandinavian design, Stockholm Furniture Fair returns for 2023, and will see more than 400 exhibitors from 31 countries take part in the event.

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"An architect who only designs buildings is like a doctor who only prescribes paracetamol" says ProxyAddress founder

"An architect who only designs buildings is like a doctor who only prescribes paracetamol" says ProxyAddress founder

Architects have a duty to use their skills to help solve societal problems even if it means thinking beyond designing buildings, ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey tells Dezeen in this interview.

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Seven alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials

Alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials

Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine have been used in recent brick innovations, designed to reduce the masonry unit's embodied carbon footprint.

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Hyperspace converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio

Hyperspace converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio

London-based architecture studio Hyperspace has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel.

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Tate Modern loses privacy feud with Neo Bankside residents over viewing platform

Tate Modern loses privacy feud with Neo Bankside residents over viewing platform

Residents of the luxury Neo Bankside flats live as though they are "on display in a zoo" because of the Tate Modern's Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension, the supreme court has ruled.

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Pema Studio designs home in Portugal as "a dense and closed fortress"

Pema Studio designs home in Portugal as "a dense and closed fortress"

Architecture practice Pema Studio drew on the idea of a protected fortress when creating the Forte House, a blocky home that replaces a neglected existing structure in Santo Tirso, Portugal.

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Domhnall Nolan designs modular sex furniture for "any kind of person"

Domhnall Nolan designs modular sex furniture for "any kind of person"

Irish designer Domhnall Nolan has created the Play Pieces range of modular sex furniture that takes cues from retro gym equipment and aims to be gender-inclusive.

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Architects need to "take responsibility for shaping the world" says Thom Mayne

Architects need to "take responsibility for shaping the world" says Thom Mayne

Morphosis founder Thom Mayne, who is reportedly working on Saudi megacity The Line, explained his desire to work on complex, city-scale projects in a talk in New York City.

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Bittoni Architects designs co-living project geared toward LA newcomers

Bittoni Architects designs co-living project geared toward LA newcomers

California studio Bittoni Architects has completed Common Melrose, a communal living complex with 23 bedrooms that is meant to be an "affordable alternative to traditional living arrangements".

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BattersbyHowat balances metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

BattersbyHowat balances metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal in Whistler, British Columbia.

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Postponement of Soviet-era exhibition not about "censorship" says Cooper Union

Postponement of Soviet-era exhibition not about "censorship" says Cooper Union

New York's Cooper Union has defended its decision to postpone its Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde exhibition following a controversial opinion article, which claimed it was inappropriate due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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