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This week readers are commenting on a pair of spiky high-rise towers by BIG nearing completion in Copenhagen and debating Tadao Ando's plans for a luxury beach resort in Dubai. Read on for more…

 

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"Functional asceticism"

Readers appraise new photographs from Rasmus Hjortshøj, who has captured a pair of spiky high-rise buildings by Danish studio BIG as they near completion in Copenhagen.

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Marc Newson and Swarovski Optik create AI smart binoculars

"Doesn't this ruin the fun of bird-watching?"

Commenters are expressing doubt over Swarovski Optik's AX Visio binoculars, designed by Marc Newson with artificial intelligence for bird and animal species identification.

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Tadao Ando unveils design for luxury residential complex in Dubai

"Notably spare, but soon submarine"

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled plans for Armani Beach Residences at Palm Jumeirah, a luxury residential complex on the oceanfront in Dubai, but readers are worried about rising sea levels.

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Vivobarefoot unveils "scan-to-print-to-soil" compostable trainers

"What stops them composting off your foot while you use them?"

Shoe brand Vivobarefoot and material science company Balena have created a prototype trainer that is 3D-printed from compostable materials. Commenters have questions.

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Madrid home designed to reinforce social networks for ageing couple

"I like the heterogeneity of shapes, colors and materials"

Readers are enjoying this home in Madrid, Spain, featuring a sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels, designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects.

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

"Ten out of ten for not choosing grey, white or black"

Commenters are debating a terminal for Boston's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof designed by Infrastructure consultants AECOM and architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects.

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"Robust and utilitarian" materials define infill home in Dublin by Gró Works

"A rewardingly careful patchwork of materials"

Readers asses the red brickwork and perforated metal panels of this compact infill home in Dublin, which has been completed by Irish architecture studio Gró Works.

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OODA designs staggered skyscraper in Tirana as "unique vertical village"

"Whimsical and unpretentious"

Commenters are split over a skyscraper made up of 13 staggered cube volumes revealed by Portugese studio OODA as its design for the Hora Vertikale residential development in Tirana, Albania.

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"Miami's slow-motion infrastructure meltdown is already apparent"

"Fun city to visit, but things like this make it hell to live in"

Art Basel Miami and Design Miami should step up to help address the infuriating congestion that blights Miami art week, writes Ian Volner. Readers shared their thoughts.

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Open Park Villa by i29 encourages residents to connect with surroundings

"Smooth, light-handed, elegant"

Commenters are admiring a "very handsome" bamboo-clad house by i29 in Limburg, the Netherlands, aiming to connect its residents to the surrounding woodland.

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Architects urged "not to work with the British Museum" due to BP partnership

"So whose money should the museum take?"

An activist collective called BP or not BP? has called on architects not to work on the British Museum's recently announced redevelopment masterplan as it will be funded by oil company BP. Readers react.

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"We must abandon the ordered, rational, learned good taste and comfort we've become used to"

"The fantasy whirl of endless consumption has gotta start its descent"

Interior design must begin facing up to uncomfortable truths about our planet and health in 2024, Michelle Ogundehin writes in her annual trends report for Dezeen. Commenters responded.

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