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This week readers are discussing Fuse Architects' renovation of a 1960's coastal house in California and debating King Charles III's royal cypher designed by the College of Arms. Read on for more...

 

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Fuse Architects renovates pyramidal 1960s coastal house in California

"I can't find anything to improve on"

Readers have been enjoying US studio Fuse Architects' renovation of a 1968 beach house on the coast of California. The practice added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors.

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King Charles III reveals royal monogram topped with Tudor Crown

"What's not to love about medieval logo design?"

King Charles III has unveiled his royal cypher much to the glee of commenters. Designed by the College of Arms, the new monogram will appear on the UK's official buildings, postboxes and passports.

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Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck erects world's largest inflatable sculpture for Diesel show

"Drunk twister"

Readers are "mesmerised" by the world's largest inflatable sculpture, which Dutch design office Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck created for Italian fashion brand Diesel at Milan Fashion Week.

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João Mendes Ribeiro creates "elegant shelter" around a chestnut tree

"It asks, and answers, necessary questions"

An art installation featuring a waterfall, a wild garden and a number of kinetic artworks on a former North Sea offshore gas platform in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom, has got commenters thinking.

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Architectural "touchstones" make The Rings of Power world look real, says production designer

"Champagne space-ialists"

The comments are popping off under a story about designer Octave de Gaulle, who has wrapped a Maison Mumm champagne bottle in aeronautical-grade aluminium which allows it to be drunk in space.

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"The spirit of a city can never be too picturesque or posed"

A proliferation of strangely similar restaurants in our cities is at risk of making them boring places to live, writes Jonathan Nunn. Readers are debating the impact of gentrification on communities. 

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Moon-shaped resort proposed for Dubai to provide "space tourism for all"

"Says it all while saying nothing"

Commenters are debating Caleb Johnson Studio's timber-clad family home in Otisfield, Maine, that has no primary bedroom in order to "reinforce familial bonds".

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MVRDV's angular Valley skyscraper opens in Amsterdam

"The gaping holes are intriguing"

Readers are considering the claim that BIG and Carlo Ratti Associati's 280-metre-tall Singapore skyscraper offers visitors a "seamless transition between the garden and the city". 

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Tom Wiscombe and Marrikka Trotter resign from SCI-Arc amid investigation

"Architects both undervalue and overvalue themselves"

Senior faculty members have resigned from Californian architecture school SCI-Arc after an investigation was launched into labour practices. Commenters are discussing how to navigate life and work.

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Plan Architect designs apartment block for nurses with zigzagging facade

"Complicated structure but great architecture".

Readers are analysing US studio Deegan-Day Design & Architecture's "elaborate" weekend home in the Santa Monica Mountains, California, built to withstand wild fires.

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GRAAM Architecture wraps Burgundy office building in timber exoskeleton and "glass veil"

"It needs to find ways of ingratiating itself to the ground"

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released images of its MAD-designed home under construction in Los Angeles and commenters aren't convinced.

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