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This week readers are debating Kanye West's decision to strip the interior of a Malibu home designed by Tadao Ando and discussing plans to rennovate the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Read on for more...

 

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Ye strips Tadao Ando beach house in Malibu back to its structure

"A waste of precious resources"

Readers reacted to news that the musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu, California, designed by Tadao Ando.

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Angled concrete blocks screen home in Japanese forest by Nendo

"Another example of architecture in spite of environment"

Commenters aren't sold on a house designed by Nendo deep in a Japanese forest, surrounded by concrete screens. What do you think?

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Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo set to renovate Centre Pompidou

"It has never looked finished"

Readers are discussing French studio Moreau Kusunoki Architectes and Mexican practice Frida Escobedo Studios' plans for a major overhaul of the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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Earth bricks shape Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre for refugees in Uganda

"Addresses issues of water, material, social good and resilience – appropriate and responsive"

Commenters are inspired by a performing arts centre by Hassell and Localworks for the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda, with one Dezeen reader calling it "uplifting". Do you agree?

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Nike and Hyperice unveil heated foot-massaging shoes

"Would match perfectly with my Apple goggles"

Nike and health tech company Hyperice have unveiled a series of wearables that can heat, cool and massage to help athletes recover. Readers are impressed by the "really cool boot design".

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Natural Material Studio crafts entire home interior from bioplastic

"Anything that gets us one step further away from petrochemicals"

Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic. Commenters are intrigued.

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Sordo Madaleno creates "overgrown ruin" apartment block in Mexico

"Looks like Safdie meets Ando meets Superstudio"

Local architecture studio Sordo Madaleno has created a residential block in Mexico made of cubic apartments stacked on top of one another, which Dezeen readers are calling "idyllic".

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"Design can immediately and practically reduce the number of people in custody"

"Like US healthcare, prisons are for profit!"

Architects who want a more equitable prison system in the US should focus on designing spaces that can help reduce mass incarceration, write Lori Coppenrath and Marayca Lopez. Commenters respond.

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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur creates "cosy home with modern ideas" in Sweden

"Modernism has turned into 'non-architecture' at this point"

Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a brick house on the southwestern tip of Sweden surrounded by a coastal pine forest. Commenters invoke Mies van der Rohe's name in the ensuing debate.

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