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Dezeen Debate features restaurant with “rich details” in Detroit Book Tower

January 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features hospitality venues inside Detroit’s restored Book Tower by Method Co. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. As part of an extensive restoration of the 1920s neoclassical building by its developer and architecture studio ODA, design company Method Co was brought on to conceptualise and operate several restaurants,

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“A metastasized Sydney Opera House” says commenter

December 13, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Zaha Hadid Architects’ Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre on an artificial lake in China. The centre is characterised by its four angular wings with sculptural steel canopies and its sweeping roofscape, which Zaha Hadid Architects modelled on the chevron-shaped flight formations of migratory birds in southern China. “A

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“Feels like it’s aimed at Instagram” says commenter

December 6, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Danish studio BIG’s design for a luxury residential building with cascading terraces, which will form part of the Ellinikon city masterplan near Athens. Named Park Rise, the building will contain 88 apartments stacked in a staggering arrangement of two gently curving wings, the tallest of which will

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Gundry & Ducker’s Wimbledon renovation aims to create “country house in miniature”

December 4, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Geometric shapes, fossilised stone and English cherry wood characterise this house in Wimbledon, London, overhauled by local architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like “a country house in miniature”. Studio co-founder Christian Ducker told Dezeen that

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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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“If you know anything about concrete, you know this is extraordinary” says commenter

November 22, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an aluminium-disc-topped pavilion in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Created as the Japanese architect’s first-ever project in Australia, the concrete structure is the 10th MPavilion in the city and was intended to be a space to reflect on the surrounding Queen Victoria Gardens.

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“Like Peter Barber on LSD” says commenter

November 15, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Sydney with a “playful and textured” facade made from reclaimed materials and broken bricks. Called 19 Waterloo Street, Australian studio SJB designed the building to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the city’s Surry Hills suburb. Commenters largely thought that the

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“No one can afford to live in the city anymore” says commenter about NYC skyscraper

November 1, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing news that architecture studio BIG has completed its first supertall skyscraper in New York City and debating a minimalist pink house in Mexico by César Béjar Studio. Called The Spiral, BIG’s latest completed project in New York reaches 314 metres (1,031 feet), making it a supertall skyscraper.

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“The beauty of this site is that it is untouched by man” says commenter

October 25, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a trio of “luxury boutique hotels” unveiled as part of the latest Neom region in an scenic valley in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s Neom project has announced Leyja – its fifth region – that will be connected to the forthcoming Trojena ski resort via a 73-kilometre hiking

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