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This week readers are commenting on new photographs of Anish Kapoor's reflective sculpture in New York and discussing proposed plans for a covered cycle highway in Dubai. Read on for more and join the debate...

 

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Iwan Baan photographs Anish Kapoor sculpture squashed under New York skyscraper

"I get a big charge out of this. The utter irrationality of it"

Iwan Baan has photographed Anish Kapoor's long-awaited reflective sculpture at the base of Herzog & de Meuron's New York skyscraper. Readers love it and think it "kicks you in the frontal cortex".

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Urb proposes 93-kilometre cycling highway "to make Dubai the most connected city on earth"

"Why not build it underground?"

Architecture studio Urb has revealed plans for a covered highway for cyclists and pedestrians that would wrap around Dubai. Commenters think the project raises more questions than it answers.

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Eight wartime designs by Ukrainian studios

"Is he criticizing marketing lingo or real discourse on design?"

In an exclusive opinion piece for Dezeen, OMA founder Reinier de Graaf suggests "architects must stop using vacuous buzzwords if they are to make a positive difference in the world". Readers are more than ready to debate the issue, with comments flooding in.

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Elizabeth Roberts combines two buildings into one for a Catskills ski house

"The plan is impeccable"

Commenters think a large cedar-clad alpine house in the Catskills Mountains by Brooklyn studio Elizabeth Roberts Architects, which connects two gabled forms underground, is a job well done.

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Adjaye Associates unveils Abrahamic Family House interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi

"Fantastic materiality and finish"

Architect David Adjaye has designed an interfaith complex that contains a churchsynagogue and mosque in Abu Dhabi. Readers think the project is a "really cool concept".

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David Chipperfield designs rammed-earth extension for Athens museum

"Another glass energy-guzzler"

Readers are discussing architecture studio Snøhetta's designs for a large glazed building with commercial, hospitality and cultural spaces that the studio says will create a "new neighbourhood" in Bangkok.

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Schemata Architects adds guesthouse and bar to coastal home in Japan

"Such richness carried out with much restraint"

Japanese practice Schemata Architects has nestled a guesthouse and bar into a hill on the coast of an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Commenters are admiring the "restrained elegance".

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Fabric creates timber and polycarbonate shed to double as light sculpture

"Unusual and nice"

Readers are stunned by a shed in Akaroa, New Zealand, which was designed by architecture studio Fabric to transform into a light sculpture at night.

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Atelier Data completes house between pine trees in Portuguese national park

"Like this one very much – the narrative, the play with the terrain, the execution"

Local studio Atelier Data has built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. Commenters noted the homes balance between "raw and refined".

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Trewhela Williams adds louvred oak facade to London mews house

"What a calm, uplifting space. So much light!"

Architecture office Trewhela Williams has completed a minimalist renovation of a mews house in north London and readers are inspired.

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Kolman Boye builds "house of offcuts" on Norway's south coast

"Craftsmanship is dialled-in perfectly"

A weekend retreat in Lillesand, Norway, by Kolman Boye Architects has been described as a "good display of exemplary ingenuity and creativity" by commenters.

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John Heah designs Clinique La Prairie resort for Amaala in Saudi Arabia

"At least it doesn't look like a Dystopian nightmare"

Readers are debating the design of a spa resort for Clinique La Prairie, which will form part of the Amaala "wellness destination" on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia.

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