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This week, Heatherwick defended his Garden Bridge after a funding gap was revealed
This week on Dezeen: British designer Thomas Heatherwick was forced to defend his Garden Bridge proposal this week after reports emerged that the project was missing £22 million in funding.
Heatherwick appeared on television to speak up for the controversial bridge planned for London's River Thames, which he claimed had become a political football. The designer also said that scrapping the proposal would suggest to the world that the UK had lost confidence in itself.
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Elsewhere, the world's largest aircraft – dubbed the Flying Bum – completed its maiden voyage over the UK and we featured the rebranding of England's Premier League as the new season kicked off.
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In the latest Brexit news, London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell told Dezeen that creatives needed to "get their act together and speak with a united voice" to protect the future of the sector.
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In New York, architects proposed new uses for Philip Johnson's Queens pavilion completed for the 1964-65 World's Fair, and the construction of KPF's supertall tower in Manhattan moved forward after a legal challenge to block the project was abandoned.
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Researchers at MIT's Media Lab created a series of smart temporary tattoos that can control devices through touch and Taxi app Uber announced its intention to trial a fleet of autonomous Volvos on the roads of Pittsburgh later this month.
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Reality stars the Kardashians shocked Dezeen readers after speaking about their appreciation of Modernist architecture and "Le Courvoisier".
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In other news, Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt revealed new images of his first mosque in Melbourne, a promotional video was released showcasing a massive ranch in New Mexico featuring buildings by Tadao Ando, and we published an exclusive movie documenting Wang Shu's museum in China built from the remains of demolished villages.
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Popular stories this week on Dezeen included a rustic house in Aspen renovated in line with the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi, a tent-like structure designed to offer a luxury alternative to camping and a photography series that documents buildings in the former Eastern Bloc.
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