Dezeen Agenda features an urban district in Iraq

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a masterplan for an urban district in Baghdad. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.

Architecture studio Gensler‘s Baghdad Sustainable Forests project in Baghdad, Iraq, will include landmark towers alongside residential, retail and commercial spaces, surrounded by parks, green corridors and one million trees.

This week’s newsletter also included the passing of high-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw, an interview with industrial designer Bruce Hannah and a prototype 3D printer that turns food waste into household objects.

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