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Dezeen Agenda features design for Colosseum-like stadium in Bath

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a concept for a Colosseum-like stadium by Apollodorus ArchitectureSubscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.

Apollodorus Architecture has revealed its conceptual design for a stadium in Bath, UK, in response to a proposed redevelopment put forward by Bath Rugby.

The building, which was designed by the studio's director Mark Wilson Jones with Jakub Ryng, would feature an oval shape in reference to Roman amphitheatres.

Vessel by Heatherwick Studio
"The Vessel shows us how bad the vampiric ultra-wealthy are at making public space" writes Matt Shaw

This week's newsletter also included an opinion piece by Matt Shaw in which he reflects on the closing of Heatherwick Studio's Vessel in New York, a series of identical dwellings in Mexico by architect Ludwig Godefroy and Zaha Hadid Architects' plans for a skyscraper in China's Xi'an business district.

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