Dezeen Debate features “kitsch” shuttlecock-shaped badminton centre

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Shuttle badminton academy in India. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

Architecture studio Archohm completed the Shuttle badminton academy in Bhubaneswar, India, which was designed to resemble a shuttlecock.

Readers were split over the project. One stated, “I don’t mind a bit of kitsch, sometimes it’s things like these that make travelling worthwhile”, while another, who was less keen, argued that “a perfectly orthogonal building would have sufficed just as much”.

Other stories in this week’s newsletter included renderings of the Two World Trade Center in New York, British company Nothing’s latest phone and Paris-based studio Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects’ plans for a data centre in Sweden.

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