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This week readers are debating two skyscrapers in Miami – a high-rise office being planned by SOM and a residential tower that has been completed by Aston Martin. Read on for more...

 

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Tono Mirai Architects encloses toilet in Japanese park with rammed earth

"The most beautiful public loo in the world? Probably"

Readers are commenting on a curving pavilion with a "delicious-looking roof structure" in Saitama prefecture, which contains a public toilet that reuses wastewater, designed by Tono Mirai Architects.

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Architects and planners call for boycott of Columbia University after protests

"From all the branded high-rises, this one isn't too bad"

Commenters are dissecting Aston Martin and Argentinian architecture studio Bodas Mian Anger's completion of a skyscraper in Miami with a curved, flat form and a cantilievered swimming pool deck.

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Henning Larsen sets timber Klaksvík Row Club next to Faroe Islands fjord

"Stunning! Such a great sense of place"

Readers react to a rowing club designed by architecture studio Henning Larsen with a sloping green roof in the Faroe Islands.

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SOM designs skyscraper with "exposed structure" for Miami

"It looks tough and righteous"

Architecture studio SOM has unveiled plans for a skyscraper in Miami, featuring an "exposed structure". Commenters shared their thoughts.

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KWK Promes transforms slaughterhouse into art gallery with rotating walls

"Very beautiful and contextualized"

Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels, adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel. Readers are analysing the project.

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"Has Milan design week become a victim of its own popularity?"

"At last, someone has said it!"

Milan design week seemed to show that the industry has given up on reducing its planetary impact and creating products for regular people, wrote Dezeen's Max Fraser this week. Commenters largely agreed.

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Takt chair is first furniture piece to receive EU's "more transparent" sustainability score

"Manufacturers of the world, take note!"

Furniture brand Takt has begun using a new kind of lifecycle assessment for its products, considering the full impact on nature and human health. Readers are praising the initative.

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dMFK Architects restores CFA Voysey's Arts and Crafts factory to its "former glory"

"What a beauty – thankfully it wasn't demolished"

Commenters appraise dMFK Architects's restoration and renovation of the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London.

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Mole Architects creates barn-like holiday home within Suffolk farmyard

"Elegant design, sophisticated discipline"

Readers appreciate Walker Warner Architects' family retreat in Hawaii with gabled forms, set in a landscape of chunky lava rocks.

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Dice furniture changes function depending on how you "throw" it

"Functional art"

Commenters are reacting to Dice, a multifaceted piece of oak furniture by Swiss studio Kosmos Architects that can be used as a stool, a coffee table, a lamp or a footrest.

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"Food production is an ideal place to start rethinking how we design"

"It's great to see the parallel subject of food and agriculture entering the design arena – about time!"

Design thinking should be substituted for "food thinking" to enable humans to create properly holistic systems that no longer cause ecological chaos, writes Sophie Lovell. Readers join the debate.

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Prince William "continuing his father's work" with Ben Pentreath-designed housing development

"Give your clients what they want – not what you think they should have"

Commenters discuss news that the Duchy of Cornwall has submitted plans for 2,500 homes in Faversham, UK, designed by Ben Pentreath, which will be the first major development led by Prince William.

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