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This week readers are commenting on the winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award for Europe's best new building and debating designs published by Rafael Viñoly Architects for four skyscrapers in Toronto, Canada. Read on for more...

 

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Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

"Versatility, flexibility, reusability – that's creativity!"

Readers are debating steel-framed Study Pavilion by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, which has won the Mies van der Rohe Award for named Europe's best new building.

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F Taylor Colantonio and Daniel Roseberry create surreal bronze-and-silk furniture for Schiaparelli

"Sensational, sensuous, sensual, mythos and mannequin marriage"

Commenters are waxing lyrical about a collection of sculptural bronze and silk furniture designed by Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry in collaboration with artist F Taylor Colantonio.

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Rafael Viñoly Architects designs four skyscrapers for first Canada project

"I can appreciate a tower not clad entirely in glass"

US studio Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed four skyscrapers and a series of public spaces in Toronto, which will be the studio's first built project in Canada. Readers discuss the pros and cons.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Village features street lamps made from salvaged building materials

"The kit-of-parts approach is appealing"

Commenters are discussing 350 street lights made from salvaged scaffolding poles and lampposts installed by design offices Concepto and Studio 5.5 ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris.

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KWK Promes transforms slaughterhouse into art gallery with rotating walls

"Simultaneously whimsical and reverent: a rare feat"

Readers are captivated by the transformation of a slaughterhouse in the Czech Republic into an art gallery by architecture studio KWK Promes, which features rotating concrete walls.

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Woods Bagot designs art deco-informed restaurant at Rockefeller Center

"Everything really does come back around"

Architecture studio Woods Bagot has completed the interiors of the second Smith & Mills restaurant in New York. Commenters react.

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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

"Perfection"

Readers from both sides of the debate respond to a cedar-wrapped house in, Nova Scotia, by Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects.

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Tuckey Design Studio restores original character of Old Chapel in Devon

"A really beautifully done and sensitive conversion"

Commenters are praising Tuckey Design Studio's revamp of a house in a converted chapel in Devon, England, which reveals and restores the building's original features. 

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Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty and architectural innovation" of brutalist churches

"Some of these spaces are amazing – others seem to be pretty awful"

Readers choose their favourites from photographer Jamie McGregor Smith book of brutalist and modernist churches from across Europe.

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"Beautiful, poetic and gentle"

Commenters share their thoughts on plans for a children's daycare centre in Munich, Germany, by Kéré Architecture.

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Mole Architects creates barn-like holiday home within Suffolk farmyard

"The pattern of openings is all over the place"

British studio Mole Architects has created Alde Valley Barn, a brick-clad holiday home on a farmyard in Suffolk, England, that dates back to the 17th century. Readers are analysing the project.

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Lake Flato Architects looks to barns for design of North Fork house

"A really successful design"

American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. Commenters are full of praise.

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