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Dezeen Debate features "incredibly elegant" Perelman Performing Arts Center

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site in New York. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

Architecture studio Rex has completed the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site in New York, which was designed as a cubic structure covered in thin marble cladding.

Readers were captivated by the building, with one noting its "conceptual clarity" and another praising the "incredibly elegant" project.

Neom skyscraper
Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section included plans for a crystalline tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for the Neom project in Saudi Arabia, a concrete-block home in Australia designed by Michael Lumby Architecture and Nielsen Jenkins and a showroom and workshop in Mexico by design studio Mestiz.

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