"It looks like a Beluga whale's fanny"
In this week's comments update, readers are poking fun at the Zaha Hadid-designed stadium in Qatar, which will host matches during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. More
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"A collection of cardboard tubes saved from used toilet rolls"
In this week's comments update, readers are not impressed with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. More
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"This is a very serious proposition for Notre-Dame"
In this week's comments update, readers are seriously considering a proposal from Miysis Studio for the rebuild of Notre-Dame Cathedral. More
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"Quasimodo will be very disappointed"
In this week's comments update, readers are angered by designs proposed to replace Notre-Dame Cathedral's destroyed spire. More
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"Lovely tiny home, even lovelier little dog"
In this week's comments update, readers aren't sure about the interior design of an apartment in Madrid, but have fallen for the dog who lives there. More
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"Even if it is rebuilt, it will not be the same"
In this week's comments update, readers grieve over the damage to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, following a huge fire believed to be linked to renovation work. More
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"Students really need to get over themselves"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating the value of internships compared to paid architecture courses after Karim Rashid said young designers can learn more working at a studio. More
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"No interns should work unpaid"
In this week's comments update, readers are split over unpaid internships, with some labelling them as detrimental to the industry and others defending them as a vital part of young architects' training. More
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"There's Norway we could a-fjord to eat in this plaice"
In this week's comments update, readers are having a whale of a time making puns about an underwater restaurant designed by Snøhetta. More
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"A totally senseless structure"
In this week's comments update, readers can't agree whether Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel at Hudson Yards will elevate New York to new heights. More
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"There's only so many ways you can twist or sweep a box"
In this week's comments update, readers are comparing OMA's design for a pair of towers in New York to the work of fellow architecture studio BIG. More
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"Leave kids out of your weird, politically correct agenda"
In this week's comments update, readers are confused by Ferm Living's decision to market its minimalist toy kitchen as "gender neutral." More
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"Extreme architecture for other architects"
In this week's comments update, readers are questioning the thinking behind Gus Wüstemann's concrete-heavy housing block. More
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"How are designers still making this mistake?"
In this week's comments update, readers are divided over Katy Perry's decision to remove allegedly "racist" designs from her shoe line. More
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"Adventurous architecture often gets thrown out the window"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating Freddy Mamani's decision to inject colour and personality into Bolivian city El Alto. More
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"This is everything that is wrong with design"
In this week's comments update, readers are questioning Nikolas and Lukas Bentel's decision to design vision-impairing Squiggle Glasses. More
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"Not everyone's cup of tea"
In this week's comments update, readers are reacting to images of the newly completed Exploratorium museum in China. More
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"A nightmarish blight on a beautiful landscape"
In this week's comments update, readers are uncomplimentary about an abandoned housing development in central Turkey that features hundreds of identical chateaux. More
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"Let sex toys be sex toys, shame free"
In this week's comments update, readers are accusing the Consumer Electronics Show organisers of sexism. More
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"Praise the lord for David Chipperfield"
In this week's comments update, readers can't decide whether the Hoxton Press towers, by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects, look new or retro. More
