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This week readers are commenting on an archival storage facility with a double-concrete skin in Quebec and discussing employees' plans to unionise at Snøhetta's New York's office. Read on for more...

 

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B+H Architects creates archival facility with double-concrete skin in Quebec

"Very imposing but strangely beautiful"

Readers are intrigued by an archival storage facility in Gatineau, Quebec, which was designed by Toronto-based studio B+H Architects.

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Snøhetta New York employees aim to unionise to "gain a collective voice"

"Unions don't belong in the design profession"

Employees at the New York office of architecture firm Snøhetta have announced a bid to unionise. Commenters are questioning the role of unions in the design and architecture industry.

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Tadao Ando unveils design for 2023 MPavilion

"Modern minimalism is alive and well"

Some readers think Tadao Ando's 2023 MPavilion design is "pristine". Others "much prefer his early work".

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Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house

"The 60s called – they want their house back"

Readers aren't sold on a charred cypress-clad lake house in North Carolina by New York-based studio Fuller Overby.

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"In Milan I found myself face-to-face with direct racial aggression"

"We should all engage in a more effective, creative and critical way to eradicate racism"

Following the controversy over a Milan design week exhibition that displayed offensive figurines, Stephen Burks considers what the incident says about the design industry and its approach to race. Commenters reacted.

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"Architects are so sheltered in terms of their sharing of knowledge" says Wendy Perring

"Pretty interesting study"

Commenters are debating the findings of a recently completed post-occupancy study conducted by Pad Studio on an eco-house it completed 13 years ago.

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Single concrete column supports One-Legged House in Japan

"All that structural conceit for what?"

A single concrete column supports the aptly named One-Legged House in Japan. Readers are wondering what the point is. 

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"We're recontextualising what a shoe is" says Nike VP Darryl Matthews

"Simply cool! Love it"

New manufacturing processes are pushing the boundaries of trainer design, says the vice president of footwear design at Nike's Catalyst team in this interview. Some readers are more on board than others.

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Studio Snoop presents "world's first AI designer" at Milan design week

"Why does Tilly look like a 20-year-old influencer?"

Commenters aren't sold on Tilly Talbot, the digital figure that Studio Snoop claims to be the "world's first AI designer". 

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Ao-ft inserts mass-timber home into London terrace

"Fantastic!"

Readers think that the cross-laminated-timber Spruce House in London, which local studio Ao-ft designed for an infill site between terraced houses, is "very elegant". 

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John Pardey Architects arranges home around New Forest wildflower garden

"The architect has given this house a lot of thought in terms of simplicity, material selection and detailing"

Commenters are pleasantly suprised by Chestnut Plantation, a brick and timber home alongside a wildflower garden in Hampshire designed by local studio John Pardey Architects.

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