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This week Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled skyscraper plans for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia and Create Streets called for multi-lane roads to be replaced with homes. Read on for more...

 

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Photos show Diller Scofidio + Renfro's "surreal and magical" Blue Dream house in the Hamptons

Photos show Diller Scofidio + Renfro's "surreal and magical" Blue Dream house in the Hamptons

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a 330-metre-tall skyscraper as part of the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia.

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"I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is"

"I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is"

Discussions about planning and urbanism are awash with talk of "placemaking" but the term remains strangely and troublingly opaque, writes Reinier de Graaf.

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High contrast brick by Glen-Gery helps blend Maryland high rise into skyline

High contrast brick by Glen-Gery helps blend Maryland high rise into skyline

Promotion US firm Design Collective has developed a 27-storey mixed-use tower in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is clad in custom-coloured bricks by material manufacturer Glen-Gery.

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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Chinese architects have told Dezeen they are regularly working through the night while their pay plummets as the country's property industry deals with a severe crisis.

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Apple unveils new smartwatches as "first carbon-neutral products"

Apple unveils new smartwatches as "first carbon-neutral products"

Apple has released an updated lineup of Apple Watches, which the technology company claims will be its first carbon-neutral products, marking a "key milestone" in its mission to reach net zero emissions by 2030.

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Create Streets proposes building housing on Britain's "needlessly wide" roads

Create Streets proposes building housing on Britain's "needlessly wide" roads

Architecture task force Create Streets is calling for Britain's multi-lane roads to be replaced with homes to aid the housing crisis and protect the country's green belt.

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Living Breakwaters coastal defence system wins Obel Award 2023

Living Breakwaters coastal defence system wins Obel Award 2023

Landscape studio Scape has won the Obel Award for 2023 for its "visionary" coastal defence system in New York City that will grow in efficiency as oysters inhabit it.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré awarded 2023 Praemium Imperiale for architecture

Diébédo Francis Kéré awarded 2023 Praemium Imperiale for architecture

Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has been named the 2023 architecture laureate for the Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association.

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UNESCO vows to "support the Moroccan authorities" rebuild following earthquake

UNESCO vows to "support the Moroccan authorities" rebuild following earthquake

UNESCO director Audrey Azoulay has said that the organisation will support Morocco in its efforts to rebuild schools and heritage landmarks damaged by this week's earthquake.

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Sydney Design Week has a "clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us" says curator Keinton Butler

Sydney Design Week has a "clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us" says curator Keinton Butler

This year's Sydney Design Week is informed by the work of a late French philosopher, creative director Keinton Butler tells Dezeen in this interview.

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PAU to expand IM Pei's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with monumental wedge

PAU to expand IM Pei's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with monumental wedge

New York-based studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has released designs for a wedge-shaped expansion of IM Pei's Rock and Rock Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland.

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