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This week readers are commenting on the completion of Japan's tallest skyscraper and debating an electric snowmobile. Read on for more...

 

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Norm Architects creates cedar-clad summerhouse that nods to traditional barns

"Has the promise of being wonderful"

Readers are analysing Heatherhill Beach House, a "rather lovely" wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish Coast by local studio Norm Architects.

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Pelli Clarke & Partners completes Japan's tallest skyscraper in Tokyo

"A bit festively plump for my taste"

Commenters are divided on Japan's tallest skyscraper by US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners, part of Tokyo's Azabudai Hills development.

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Pininfarina designs "world's cleanest snowmobile" for Vidde

"I love the idea of a quiet snowmobile in nature"

Readers are intrigued by a "good looking" electric snowmobile, which mobility company Vidde developed with design studio Pininfarina

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CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper

"A beautiful house in a fantastic setting"

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Commenters discuss its merits.

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Powerhouse Company completes Europe's first mass-timber academic building

"Identity crisis between Dubai and Las Vegas"

Readers react to development firm Related Companies' plans to expand the program of Hudson Yards with a series of buildings including supertall skyscrapers and a casino.

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Production designer Patrice Vermette put himself "in the position of the architect" for Dune

"Outstanding production design!"

Brutalism, septic tanks and a rejection of the sci-fi status quo informed the set design of the film Dune: Part Two, production designer Patrice Vermette tells Dezeen in this interview. Commenters responded.

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Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university

"Would love to see this applied to housing!"

Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for a university in Germany. Readers are praising the "amazing system".

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"Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites"

"We need to stop the chronic obsession with low-density housing in city centres"

Peter Barber's architecture proves that providing social housing at scale without making the design mistakes of the past is eminently possible, writes Owen Hatherley as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Commenters shared their thoughts.

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ODOS Architects crowns Church of Oak Distillery with pyramidal Corten roofs

"The corten is certainly unusual. Does it work?"

Pyramidal Corten roofs define a distillery by ODOS Architects in rural County Kildare, Ireland. Readers ponder the project.

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COBE to transform Danish parliament into "democratic meeting place for all"

"Clever classicism, gotta love it"

Commenters are enjoying plans for amphitheatre-like seating in the courtyard of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen as part of an overhaul by Cobe, Arcgency and Drachmann Arkitekter

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Studio Guma converts stone farmhouse into "family sanctuary" in Normandy

"The whole thing looks effortless"

Readers are discussing a "well-done" farmhouse in Normandy that architecture practice Studio Guma overhauled while retaining its stone and timber structure.

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Recycled stone forms walls of Rajasthan farmhouse by Sketch Design Studio

"Homey, comfortable, no fireworks – what a site, though"

Commenters are enjoying a rural residence in north India by Sketch Design Studio with a rustic stone interior.

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