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This week readers are debating a treehouse hotel room by BIG and commenting on a dramatic cantilevered holiday cabin in Québec, Canada. Read on for more...

 

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Kariouk Architects completes cantilevered chalet overlooking a lake in Canada

"Now that's what I call a holiday home"

Some commenters are wowed by Kariouk Architects' dramatic cantilevered cabin, which overlooks a remote lake in Québec, but others think it disrupts its natural surroundings. 

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BIG wraps Lapland hotel treehouse in 350 birdhouses

"BIG really needs to get small"

Readers are questioning the practicality of BIG's Biosphere treehouse hotel room in Sweden, which is surrounded by 350 birdhouses.

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Heatherwick Studio creates unfolding Glasshouse for National Trust

"If I was a plant, I'd want to live in it"

Heatherwick Studio has created a sculptural unfolding greenhouse for England's historic Woolbeding Estate. Commenters like its drama.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs Xi'an cultural centre to echo "meandering valleys"

"Zaha lives on"

Readers think that a sinuous cultural centre in Xi'an by Zaha Hadid Architects is a fitting tribute to the studio's late founder. 

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Ten interiors with textured cork-covered walls

"When can I move in?"

Our latest lookbook collects ten interiors with tactile walls that are clad or built with cork. Readers are praising the material's versatility. 

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Meta launches store selling digital Prada and Balenciaga clothing for avatars

"A tax on stupidity"

Social media brand Meta has launched a store selling digital Prada and Balenciaga clothing for avatars. Readers think it's "out of touch". 

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SOM and Burckhardt+Partner create mass-timber office for UN on Lake Geneva

"As a step in the right direction... maybe?"

Commenters aren't sold on the environmental credentials of SOM and Burckhardt+Partner's mass-timber United Nations office in Geneva.

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Sprawl in America "is not good for our climate" says Barack Obama

"He is right, but sets a bad personal example"

Barack Obama's carbon footprint has come under commenter scrutiny after he claimed that urban sprawl "is not good for our climate".

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Maldives reveals "world's first true floating island city" to cope with rising sea levels

"What could go wrong?"

Readers think that the Maldives' plan to tackle rising sea levels with a floating island city is nothing but a "billionaire's dream".

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Frank Gehry creates "welcoming building" for Children's Institute in LA

"Nice to see Gehry giving back to Los Angeles"

Frank Gehry's Children's Institute in Los Angeles, which the American architect designed for no fee, has won commenter approval. 

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Juan Pablo Ureta orients wooden Chilean beach house around a courtyard

"Reminiscent of an early Koolhaas project"

Readers are struck by a wooden beach house on Chile's northern coast, which Juan Pablo Ureta organised around an internal courtyard.

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BIG reveals design for National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth

"It's embarrassing and clearly the wrong firm"

BIG has unveiled its design for the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Commenters think the commission should have gone elsewhere. 

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Architects and designers create 33 conceptual birdhouses for Brooklyn Botanic Garden

"The largest apartments Americans can afford right now"

BIG's treehouse hotel isn't the only birdhouse project that got readers talking this week. Architects and designers have created 33 conceptual birdhouses for The Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 

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